Lead Pharmacist – Audit and Transformation
Band 8a
Main area: Pharmacy Department - Prospect Park Hospital
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 371-CS229
Site: Pharmacy Dept - Prospect Park Hospital
Town: Reading
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 05/02/2025
A new role offering exciting opportunities to shape and drive Berkshire Healthcare pharmacy services in the years ahead. You will get autonomy, variation and the chance to further develop your leadership and clinical skills. You will work in a forward-thinking Trust that has adopted a quality improvement approach (Q M I S) which aims to help us deliver the best possible care to our patients, recognising that “better never stops.”
If you are dynamic, innovative and proactive, seek and embrace change, and have a track record of implementing change and inspiring others, then we want you! Come and use your experience, knowledge, and energy to target service improvement and help take us to the next level. As an AI T Pharmacist, you will represent pharmacy externally and at Trust meetings, liaising closely with other Trust leaders and managers. You will also be an experienced clinical pharmacist, ideally with strong mental health experience.
Main duties of the job
1. Major input into Pharmacy Vision, with senior Pharmacy team.
2. Responsibility for the ongoing development and delivery of our Pharmacy vision.
3. Ensuring effective implementation and operation of pharmacy AI T plans.
4. Responsible for the ongoing development, audit and oversight of our change plans.
5. Be a clinically active member of the Pharmacy Service (circa 50% of time), in either mental or physical health services.
6. Participating in the paid on-call (EDC) pharmacy service (approx. 1 in 10).
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
* Caring for and about you is our top priority.
* Committed to providing good quality, safe services.
* Working together with you to develop innovative solutions.
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
* Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
* 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell.
* Excellent learning and career development opportunities.
* ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles.
* Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services.
* Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants.
* Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality.
* Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
* Free parking across Trust sites.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be considered for this role, you must have:
* Great AI T delivery skills and strong relevant change experience.
* A hospital clinical pharmacist background, with a strong patient focus, clinical skills and knowledge.
* Good systems thinking, with a collaborative ‘can-do’ approach.
If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
* Master’s degree in pharmacy or equivalent.
* Statutory registration - General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Royal Pharmaceutical Society of GB Member.
* Postgraduate Clinical diploma or equivalent experience.
Continuous Professional Development
* Evidence of continuing professional development (GPhC).
* Experience of audit, projects and managing change.
* Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team.
* Experience of undertaking and developing audits.
* Delivery of pharmacy services across a range of areas.
* Experience of budget reports (preparing or analysis).
* Involvement in developing a service within pharmacy.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
* Good communication, interpersonal and organisational skills.
* IT competencies across a range of common software.
* Advanced keyboard skills and computer literate, with the ability to use software packages (including pharmacy IT systems and electronic patient records).
* Basic project management skills.
* Ability to travel independently and efficiently between Trust locations to fulfil the requirements of the role.
These are the values that we live by at Berkshire Healthcare:
* Caring for and about you is our top priority.
* Committed to providing good quality, safe services.
* Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions.
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Please find attached the behaviour framework that underpins these values for this job role.
At Berkshire Healthcare, we foster an inclusive workplace where everyone belongs.
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