Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

This post is only open for applications for individuals employed within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Care System

Organisations within scope are as follows:

• Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
• Southern Health Foundation Trust
• Portsmouth Heath University Trust
• University Hospital Southampton
• Solent NHS Trust
• South Central Ambulance Service
• Isle of Wight NHS Trust
• Hampshire Hospitals

An exciting opportunity to join our Pharmacy senior team has become available, for an individual seeking a challenging and rewarding role within a dynamic, supportive and professional team. The Pharmacy department is passionate about delivering excellent care to our patients and community. This role will play a vital part in helping us to achieve our Strategic Plan, Vision and Mission, through coaching and mentoring your team to deliver on set objectives. This role will lead on our clinical services across the Trust and will be responsible for not only ensuring clinical, operational, safety and legislative compliance but also ensuring the delivery of corporate strategy and non-pay CIPs through management of the pharmacist team leads. 

Job Summary:

• Directing the development of the clinical pharmacy service for Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust through   management of 5 x Pharmacist Team Leaders.
• Leading the development of clinical pharmacy training within Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust.
• Contributing to the delivery of medicines optimisation within the Trust, to maximize the beneficial clinical outcomes for patients from medicines, with an emphasis on safety, governance, professional collaboration and patient engagement.
• To develop, train, motivate and encourage staff working within patient services and the department as a whole.
• Budgets – Contributes to control of medicines budget of £82m and Pharmacy staff and non-staff budgets.

Directly manages: 5 band 8b Pharmacist Team Leaders across the Clinical Specialities, Team Lead for Commissioning and Formulary and Homecare Lead Pharmacist. Indirectly manages specialist 8a pharmacists and supervises band 7 and band 6 pharmacists on rotation.

Essential

• Registered Pharmacist with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma/MSc or equivalent experience

Desirable

• Postgraduate Management Qualification or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential

• 8 years in the NHS with a wide range of clinical and management experience
• Quality systems and audit
• Operational planning and development of services
• Health and Safety and maintenance of safe systems or work

Desirable

• Marketing of service for pharmacy customers and stakeholders

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Evaluation of medical literature concerning medicines
• Analysis of potential clinical pharmacy problems from medicines charts and patient information
• Managing a team of highly qualifies professionals
• Team building in professional environment
• Practice based research and audit of medicines management systems
• Team building and skill mix review
• Quality systems and audit

Desirable

• Financial management of medicines and pharmacy budgets
• Negotiating in clinical and commercial environments
• Operational management and business planning.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most. 

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.