Job summary
Great things are happening in our Hospital Pharmacy Services across Liverpool University, Liverpool Women's and Walton Centre Trusts.
We are looking for two exceptional leaders to inspire and give direction to our Pharmacy Services on our Royal Liverpool and Aintree University Hospital sites. Responsible for clinical and operational services on each of these busy acute hospital sites these roles are ideally suited to candidates who want to extend their experience at a senior management level in a progressive environment.
Working as part of our Senior Leadership Team across all our sites, the successful candidate must have strong interpersonal skills, the desire to network and collaborate and the ability to inspire multi-professional teams. They must have a strong background in governance and risk management and be motivated by well-managed change across traditional professional boundaries.
They will be a role model for others and have the desire to utilise and develop evidence-based practice to improve pharmacy services across the hospital and in the wider health economy.
Main duties of the job
As a member of the Senior Pharmacy Leadership Team the post-holder will ensure compliance with medicines legislation, identify key development priorities, "sell" the vision for service provision to optimise patient care and secure funding as appropriate across a range of departments deputising for the Chief Pharmacist as appropriate.
They will lead, develop, deliver, and evaluate the provision of pharmacy services
The post holder will provide site leadership for MMPS across all clinical and operational services and ensure they are fit for purpose. They are responsible for pharmacy services delivery to these large acute hospitals with multiple complex services, large numbers of wards, outpatient clinics and Accident and Emergency Departments on site. They will also provide day to day advice and supervision for the site leads at Broadgreen and Walton Centre Foundation Trust.
They will effectively support the medicines value programme for the Trusts and the health economy by ensuring that medicines procedures and policies are adhered to and monitored. They will use the Trust risk management framework to escalate risks and concerns as necessary and provide expert professional advice to the Hospital Management Team on all medicines related issues to ensure statutory and clinical responsibilities are met.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and the Pharmacy Team also provides services to the Walton Centre Foundation Trust and the Liverpool Women's Hospital. Joint committees are in operation between LUHFT and partner organisations to support good governance and enhance collaborative opportunities.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see job overview, main duties of the job and attached job description for further information about the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see job overview, main duties of the job and attached job description for further information about the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Vocational Masters Degree in pharmacy + 1 year pre-registration training and experience.
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Postgraduate Pharmacy qualification e.g. MSc or diploma (or equivalent vocational experience).
- Management or leadership qualification or equivalent experiential learning within the NHS.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post-registration hospital pharmacy management experience at a senior level (8b or 8C) with responsibility for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and other associated staff groups.
- Management experience including recruitment, appraisal, training, leadership, motivation, sickness absence and participation in grievance or disciplinary procedures.
- Significant experience in project management including major change projects in partnership with other pharmacy services
- Commitment to deliver services without boundaries
- Developing and implementing service change
- Experience of developing business cases for service development, including monitoring of outputs.
- Significant, relevant and ongoing personal CPD.
Desirable
- Multidisciplinary health service research
- Published in a peer reviewed journal
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of national and local priorities and identify best practice
- Advanced pharmacy knowledge and skills with advanced levels of reasoning and judgement in order to manage difficult and ambiguous problems.
- Excellent understanding of legal aspects of medicines management
- Service improvement methodology to effectively improve and evaluate services
- Good understanding of Primary / Secondary Care interface issues
- Awareness of and a commitment to the Clinical Governance Agenda
- Knowledge of a range of management topics including, performance capability, disciplinary and financial management, service improvement.
- Excellent planning, organisation and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise own workload and that of others.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Vocational Masters Degree in pharmacy + 1 year pre-registration training and experience.
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Postgraduate Pharmacy qualification e.g. MSc or diploma (or equivalent vocational experience).
- Management or leadership qualification or equivalent experiential learning within the NHS.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive post-registration hospital pharmacy management experience at a senior level (8b or 8C) with responsibility for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and other associated staff groups.
- Management experience including recruitment, appraisal, training, leadership, motivation, sickness absence and participation in grievance or disciplinary procedures.
- Significant experience in project management including major change projects in partnership with other pharmacy services
- Commitment to deliver services without boundaries
- Developing and implementing service change
- Experience of developing business cases for service development, including monitoring of outputs.
- Significant, relevant and ongoing personal CPD.
Desirable
- Multidisciplinary health service research
- Published in a peer reviewed journal
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of national and local priorities and identify best practice
- Advanced pharmacy knowledge and skills with advanced levels of reasoning and judgement in order to manage difficult and ambiguous problems.
- Excellent understanding of legal aspects of medicines management
- Service improvement methodology to effectively improve and evaluate services
- Good understanding of Primary / Secondary Care interface issues
- Awareness of and a commitment to the Clinical Governance Agenda
- Knowledge of a range of management topics including, performance capability, disciplinary and financial management, service improvement.
- Excellent planning, organisation and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise own workload and that of others.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
