Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Sheffield Teaching Hospitals
Town Sheffield
Salary £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum pro rata for part time staff
Salary period Yearly
Closing 21/04/2025 23:59
Pharmacy Business & Performance Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
Would you like the opportunity to work as a part of a progressive, patient focused pharmacy service?
We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative individual to join our expanding pharmacy team. The team at Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust comprises of approximately 500 pharmacy staff working across five sites and is one of the biggest pharmacy departments in the country.
Our inclusive and diverse pharmacy department has a strong clinical presence in all areas. We are innovative and forward-thinking and have invested in a host of technical improvements, including robotics and a state of the art, multi-million-pound technical services unit. We offer a wide range of roles across different areas of the service including clinical ward services, aseptic services, homecare, medicines supply, medicines information, medicines governance, education & training, clinical trials, and research.
NHS organisations recognise the benefits of having a diverse workforce. As a trust and department, we are working to promote and improve inclusion and representation from under-represented groups including global majority ethnicities, LGBTQ+ identities, and colleagues with disabilities. We would welcome applicants who are members of these groups and other underrepresented groups to apply.
Main duties of the job
1. To be responsible for monitoring directorate performance against annual business plans and to advise the Senior Pharmacy Management team accordingly, producing reports and developing business plans accordingly.
2. To be responsible for the development of business cases.
3. To lead on the development and implementation of activity monitoring processes, horizon scanning and impact analysis by working with senior pharmacy staff and care groups representatives.
4. Explore and develop strategic partnership opportunities within the ICS and wider region.
5. To be responsible for ensuring income recovery, reporting to the SPM and directorate finance team.
6. Assist in the development and delivery of the capital development program, developing business cases and overseeing project delivery.
7. Oversee directorate-wide recruitment, service delivery and skill-mix reviews.
8. Manage the Pharmacy directorate productivity and efficiency savings initiatives ensuring successful delivery.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. It is an energetic and vibrant organisation that places patients and staff at the heart of everything they do. We provide a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Sheffield, as well as specialist care for patients from further afield, including cancer, spinal cord injuries, renal and cardiothoracic services.
As a teaching hospital, we have a great commitment to education, training, and development of staff, including undergraduates from many professions. You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it services. The NHS offers a wide range of benefits including pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance and career, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
The trust will give you time to use your skills and help you develop a fulfilling career as well as a commitment to support flexible working and can support such things as part time hours, condensed hours, or job share. These options are not exhaustive, and we would encourage candidates to state any forms of flexible working they would like to explore in their application.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Educated to degree level or equivalent professional qualification.
* Demonstrable commitment to continuing personal and professional development
* Significant demonstrable experience / short courses in a range of HR courses – conducting appraisals, recruitment and selection, performance management etc.
* Registered pharmacist/technician with GPhC.
* Evidence of study at post-graduate level or equivalent professional development.
Experience
* Staff management/ supervision experience, including the setting of objectives, team and individual appraisal, recruitment.
* Experience and knowledge of service demand and capacity planning exercises
* Experience of managing, monitoring and controlling expenditure budgets.
* Experience of financial planning and the design and delivery of efficiency schemes
* Extensive experience of report writing and good presentation skills
* Experience of the development of business cases/ proposals
* Experience of commissioning arrangements relating to medicines
* Experience of managing clinical/support services in an acute hospital setting
* Experience of medicines budgetary management
Further Training
* Understanding of EPMA reporting.
* Working understanding of pharmacy stock control systems (e.g. JAC/CMM).
* Excellent oral and written communication skills.
* Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work proactively and cooperatively with senior management, clinical staff and other staff all levels
* Ability to get up to speed quickly, and make an impact in less familiar service environments
* Understanding of clinical and corporate governance
* Experience of using IT packages (i.e. Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
* Excellent numeracy skills – ability to source and analyse data (including waiting list, RTT and demand information).
* A clear understanding of confidentiality when dealing with matters relating to staff and patients
* Excellent organisational skills and an ability to prioritise an unpredictable workload with frequent disruption.
* Flexible approach to work
* A highly attuned awareness of the political environment in which operating and the ability to navigate successfully through this
* Demonstrable self-awareness, an understanding of impact on others and an ability to manage self and maintain professional conduct in difficult and challenging situations.
* Demonstrable leadership skills and the ability to motivate others and demonstrate honesty and integrity.
* Enthusiasm and ability to seek out and resolve problems in order to improve patient care.
* Ability to cope with working in a changing and uncertain environment.
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