This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced operational manager to join our team in the key leadership role of Service Manager for Pharmacy. If you are highly motivated, keen to be part of developing our services and thrive on working in a fast-paced, high-pressure and challenging environment then come and join us!
Reporting to the Pharmacy General Manager, you will continue to develop service delivery for the benefit of our patients and support the development of business opportunities with external stakeholders and retailers. You will contribute to the delivery and implementation of pharmacy’s business plan and day-to-day operational management whilst maintaining financial performance.
Being a key member of the Pharmacy Leadership team you will ensure the achievement of a high standard service, delivery of key performance indicators and continual development and review of processes for improving productivity and efficiency while working to national and internal quality standards. You will be required to travel to both our hospital acute sites in the working week.
You will be responsible for leading and managing the pharmacy IT systems administrators and the pharmacy administration team. Previous experience of working in operational NHS acute management would be highly advantageous.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Provide visible service delivery leadership to all pharmacy administrative staff and promote continual improvement in quality, performance and delivery of Trust objectives.
2. Lead, manage and motivate staff within pharmacy to deliver and improve services to meet the needs of the patients.
3. Work with the General Manager to develop the business and planning processes throughout Pharmacy to deliver services to required standards and within the available resource base.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tom Whybrow Job title: Pharmacy General Manager Email address: Thomas.Whybrow@esneft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07768 038760
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