Associate Director of Pharmacy - Patient Care
Due to the promotion of the current post holder, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic pharmacy professional to lead on our patient focused services.
You will be responsible for leadership, development, operational delivery and service evaluation in these services: clinical pharmacy; education, training and workforce development; patient safety and quality; medicines information; and medicines commissioning.
You will work closely with the Director of Pharmacy and the Associate Director of Pharmacy, Patient Services in the overall delivery of medicines optimisation and pharmacy services, in addition to senior clinicians, nurses, allied health professionals, managers and executives both within and outside of the Trust.
Supporting the Trust's aim of striving for excellence and to achieve excellent patient experience each and every time, you will contribute to the implementation of the Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services strategy, working with other leaders in your teams to promote and evaluate new service models to benefit patient care and experience. You must be highly experienced at a senior management level with a comprehensive understanding of systems relevant to the practice of hospital pharmacy. You will possess business planning and project management skills. As a natural motivator of staff, you will have the drive to innovate, implementing and evaluating new ways of working.
Date of Interview is 18th October 2024
Main duties of the job
* To work with the Director of Pharmacy to ensure the Trust-wide delivery of safe, effective and efficient Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services to patients and other service users in the Trust.
* As a member of the Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services Senior Leadership Team, to assist in leading the development of Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services throughout the Trust.
* To manage Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services staff throughout the Trust who are involved in providing services or supporting projects within the areas of responsibility of the Associate Director of Pharmacy, Patient Care.
* To work with the Director of Pharmacy in ensuring objectives are met for Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services.
The Associate Director of Pharmacy, Patient Care will be responsible for the following areas of the Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services:
* Clinical Pharmacy
* Patient Safety and Quality
* Education, training and workforce development
* Professional secretary to the Medicines Optimisation Group
About us
We provide care and support to over a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce.
We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.
We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently.
We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.
We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
(a) Area of responsibility
The Associate Director of Pharmacy, Patient Care will be responsible for the following areas of the Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services:
* Clinical Pharmacy
* Patient Safety and Quality
* Education, training and workforce development
* Professional secretary to the Medicines Optimisation Group
The Associate Director of Pharmacy, Patient Care will work closely with the Associate Director of Pharmacy, Patient Services in the overall delivery of Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services. Areas of responsibility may be subject to review as the needs of the Trust and the Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services change.
(b) General
Lead, develop, deliver and evaluate Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services to allocated areas of responsibility.
Assist and support the Director of Pharmacy in planning and managing all aspects of Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services (including budgets and staff) to enable the Trust to deliver effective patient-focused services.
Work with the Director of Pharmacy to develop and implement strategy and ensure that the department discharges its responsibilities with respect to Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy functions in accordance with departmental, divisional, Trust, regional and national priorities, guidance, standards and legislation.
Monitor and amend service delivery to reflect Trust needs and resources available.
Be responsible for providing input and delivering the Trust's Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy Services Strategy and its implementation, which includes requirements specified by the Care Quality Commission, the General Pharmaceutical Council, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, commissioning organisations, and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
Provide leadership on medicines optimisation issues within the Trust, including acting as the Professional Secretary to the Medicines Optimisation Group.
Directly line managed by and deputises for the Director of Pharmacy.
Attend performance management meetings and help present evidence to demonstrate departmental compliance with corporate and national targets, and to support the department's financial and operational performance, highlighting both achievements and concerns.
Attend governance meetings, team leader meetings, and other relevant meetings as required.
Represent the department on Trust wide groups as agreed with the Director of Pharmacy.
Provide expert advice on medicines optimisation, including legal advice, ethical and cost effectiveness to the senior managers, consultants and other health care professionals.
Demonstrate professional accountability to service users, stakeholders, and the profession.
Identify and promote innovation and best practice.
Be an active contributory member of the Pharmacy Management Group.
Provide cover for colleagues' absence as appropriate to the needs of the service.
Participate in the weekend, Bank Holiday, and late night rotas.
Carry out dispensary duties when required for the needs of the service.
Provide support for research and development activity as required by the doctors and other members of the healthcare team. To be involved where appropriate in dispensing of clinical trial materials.
Where appropriate act as a representative of the Medicines Optimisation & Pharmacy Services by contributing to relevant committees dealing with medicines related issues.
Deliver, in collaboration with staff in the Medicines Information Centre, support for Formulary & Drug Usage Audit initiatives.
Perform any other appropriate duties as designated by the Director of Pharmacy.
Be responsible for recruitment of staff, management and development for the areas of responsibility.
Contribute to the operational delivery of pharmacy services within the allocated areas of responsibility, including the ability to prepare/dispense injectable medicines.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Awareness
* The post holder must be able to evaluate and assess situations, both clinical and non-clinical, with a view to providing reasoned expert advice to colleagues on issues such as patient treatment regimens and service developments.
Qualifications
* Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent.
* Postgraduate Diploma or Postgraduate Masters Degree in Clinical Pharmacy or the equivalent practical experience.
* Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Membership of relevant pharmacy leadership bodies.
* Management training obtained through short courses.
Experience
* Highly experienced at senior management level.
* Comprehensive understanding of systems relevant to the practice of pharmacy in hospitals.
* Extensive experience as a senior pharmacy manager in a complex environment.
* Experience of service development and strategy development.
* Experience of managing a pharmacy service.
* Financial and budgetary experience.
* Demonstrable evidence of managing change involving staff in a discrete pharmacy area.
Skills and Abilities
* Business planning and project management skills.
* Excellent leadership, organisational, prioritisation, time management, personal effectiveness, analytical and problem solving skills of a consistently high standard, maintaining attention to detail and accuracy.
* Innovation / implementation skills to develop pharmacy services.
* Communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills essential to exchange highly complex information to colleagues, patients and relatives, clinicians and senior managers.
* Self-motivated and ability to motivate others and act as a role model.
* Ability to develop and implement new procedures.
* Proven track record of successful budget management.
* Ability to think strategically and operationally.
* A demonstrably high degree of emotional intelligence.
* Team player with drive and enthusiasm.
* Computing skills to include a working knowledge of Pharmacy computer systems (e.g. JAC / Ascribe), the internet, Microsoft Office, Power Point, Word, Access and Excel and patient information systems.
* Ability to deal with highly distressing situations and complaints from patients, staff and managers.
Personal Attributes
* Leader, team player, open transparent style of working, engaging with staff, coaching behaviours demonstrated.
* Exhibits an enthusiasm for development of the practice of Pharmacy.
* Shows sound leadership qualities and the ability to work as an individual and within a team.
* Possesses personal organisational attributes and an ability to motivate other people.
* Responds positively to service deadlines.
* Able to plan and manage organisational change.
* The post holder must display an understanding of and ability to deal with the confidential and sensitive information with which they will come into contact on a daily basis.
* The post holder will need the necessary skills to be able to communicate complicated information about all aspects of medication issues to senior management colleagues.
* The post holder must display an understanding and ability to communicate and deal with all patients and/or carers some of whom may have language, sensory or learning difficulties, or who may be dying or distressed because of their diagnosis or state of health.
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.
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