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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
249-6924710
Employer
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Great Western Hospitals
Town
Swindon
Salary
拢62,215 - 拢72,293 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/03/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Deputy Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager

Band 8b

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a unique organisation, serving as the sole integrated provider in the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire system. Our scope extends beyond boundaries as we oversee adult community services in Swindon and provide acute care from the Great Western Hospital.聽

Our 5,500 staff have 1.2m patient contacts a year, with 13,000 operations carried out in our Theatres, around 4,000 babies born, and our emergency attendances are now well over 100,000 per year. Those numbers only tell part of our story about what an exciting time it is to join Great Western Hospitals.

We are cultivating a culture that fosters our ambitions, prioritising equality, diversion, inclusion, wellbeing, and leadership. We aim to create an environment where every member of our team can truly thrive.

The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer; all applicants who have a disability can opt to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme, which means that, providing they meet the minimum essential criteria for the post, they will be offered an interview. We are also proudly accredited as a Veteran Aware organisation and have signed The Armed Forces Covenant.

If we receive a high volume of applications, we may close adverts prior to the published closing date. Therefore, we advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.

Job overview

Deputy Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager - Surgery Women's and Children's Lead

We have an exciting, challenging and rewarding opportunity to join our senior pharmacy team as Deputy Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager and Lead Pharmacist for Surgery Women's and Children (SWC).聽 This is your chance to make tangible and sustainable improvements that really make patient care and clinical pharmacy better.聽

We are looking for an enthusiastic leader to manage and develop clinical pharmacy services to the SWC division.聽

The Pharmacy Department at the Great Western Hospital is at the heart of the Trust鈥檚 programme to move forward and transform itself.聽 By embracing technology, diversity, new ways of working and an improvement mindset built into all of us, Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy services are at the heart of patient care.聽

We have a clear vision for the future of Pharmacy service as part our fully integrated healthcare system.聽 聽

Main duties of the job

We want you to inspire our diverse and highly skilled team of clinical pharmacy staff and play a key leadership role in the Trust, and wider care systems, in delivering our vision of medicines optimisation.

To support you in your role, at GWH Pharmacy we value a culture that is positive, compassionate, and inclusive. We have an environment where we learn, improve, and celebrate our work as one team that is fully focused around providing the very best care.聽聽

This is a challenging role, but an exciting one.聽 It鈥檚 a time of change for the NHS and this is an opportunity to help shape the future of pharmacy clinical service.

Working for our organisation

鈥淥ur STAR values 鈥 Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect 鈥 are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.鈥

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We need you to be a resilient, credible leader that shares our values and has a passion for delivering the very best Pharmacy services. You will need to bring your depth of experience, a proven track record in service delivery and show how you have been able to raise the profile of Pharmacy. The main duties of the role include:

To be responsible for the provision and development of clinical pharmacy services to SWC

Meet with the Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager to assist with the strategic planning and staffing requirements of the clinical service.

To be responsible for the development of a strategic plan for pharmacy service to services within surgery women's and children's division.聽

To monitor workload and, in discussion with the Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager review the allocation of pharmacy staff to in-patient wards and clinical specialities.聽

Investigate medicine incidents in agreed specialty or specialties and ensure processes are in place to develop learning from these incidents.

To be responsible for the production, implementation and updating of protocols, guidelines, policies for patients in agreed specialty or specialties in line with best clinical practice, network, and national guidance.

To participate in meetings and working groups for agreed specialty or specialties, both locally and for the wider clinical network relating to the development and maintenance of clinical services or policies as determined by changing need or local national directives.

To attend and advise Trust committees, internal and external audits as required providing advice to medical staff on medicines usage and expenditure.

To participate in the pharmacy bank holiday, flexible working weekend, and evening rotas, as required to meet the needs of the service

To be/ become an Independent Prescriber (IP) and to continue to develop the role of pharmacist independent prescriber within the Trust

Act as an advanced practitioner for agreed specialty or specialties, to plan the care and identify areas of concern related to medicine use in a specialty.

Assist in clinical decision making.

Provides information to agreed specialty or specialties and finance in relation to drug spend including identifying causes and potential impact of over-spend.

To lead and line manage a team of Clinical and Non-clinical Pharmacy staff that are responsible for clinical pharmacy service.

Responsible for the day-to-day range of staff management matters which will include responsibility for supporting appraisals, development of staff, recruitment, and where necessary processes such as grievance and disciplinary matters

Responsible for an individual鈥檚 development on the job performance management. Work in conjunction with line managers and other job managers to assess and manage confidential information about an individual鈥檚 performance and capability development

Plan and deliver training to pharmacy and other clinical staff on issues related to specialty or specialties

To act as a specialist practitioner and role model for junior staff

To train, supervise and assess all pharmacy staff including trainee pharmacists providing a ward/clinical pharmacy service to wards.

To be a postgraduate tutor (trainee pharmacist, or diploma) for pharmacy staff as required

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Master鈥檚 Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
  • Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Postgraduate diploma or equivalent
  • Keeping professionally up to date including CPD
  • Significant pharmacy experience involving clinical pharmacy services and MDT working
  • Non-medical prescriber or working towards qualification
Desirable criteria
  • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  • Evidence of training in change management
  • Management qualification/experience

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant experience as a qualified pharmacist
  • Proven experience in service improvement utilising quality improvement (QI) methodology
  • Demonstrable evidence of staff development, leadership and management.
  • Experience of working effectively in a multi-disciplinary environment
  • Teaching, tutoring and mentoring experience
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of writing and implementing business plans
  • Experience in undertaking and publishing research projects

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable communication, verbal and written skills and experience
  • Good clinical knowledge backed up by extensive ward/practice-based experience Non-medical prescriber
  • Demonstrable influencing skills across the NHS environment
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of producing Trust/network wide guidelines and/or policy documents

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran Awarehttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/kickstart-scheme-employer-resources/kickstart-scheme-brand-guidelines

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Claire Oates
Job title
Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01793 605030
Additional information

For more information or to arrange an informal visit please contact Claire Oates聽