Job summary
Are you a highly motivated and dynamic pharmacist with clinical and hospital procurement experience seeking a new challenge?As Lead Pharmacist for High-Cost Drugs and Procurement you must possess the vision, energy, enthusiasm and influencing skills to manage the challenges posed by financial constraints, close scrutiny of drug use and supply chain difficulties. The ability to engage, motivate and closely collaborate with medical, nursing and pharmacy colleagues across primary and secondary care will be essential to ensure high-cost drugs and stock control is managed appropriately.You will be efficient, organised, innovative, resourceful, and a good team worker, interacting with a variety of people whilst acting as an autonomous practitioner whilst leading a team in the delivery of high quality clinical and directorate related pharmacy services.
Ideally having experience of project management and improvement methodology, you will have the opportunity to develop your business and analytical skills and produce financial reports.
Working in a fast-paced environment, operating to key deadlines whilst delivering quality results through a well-managed team, you will have a unique opportunity to enhance your skills and make a genuine contribution within a commercially oriented and innovative NHS organisation.
This is a secondment opportunity, 37.5 hours per week fixed for 12 months commencing on 02/09/2024
Main duties of the job
To develop and lead whole hospital wide procurement of medicine and any issues relating to medicine including Non-Formulary medicines.o To oversee high level medicines expenditure and undertake regular reporting to any relevant meetings and groups to keep them abreast of medicines expenditure trends and forecast reports against projected spend and savings.o To develop through close collaboration with the Assistant Chief Pharmacist (Business and Operations) improved links between the Trust and its Commissioners and Primary Care partners to ensure that strong working relationships are developed and maintained with regard to medicines.o Contribute to the Pharmacy Management Group agenda, to help develop a strategic vision and delivery plan for the Pharmacy Department.o To contribute to the development and implementation of clinical governance, controls ensuring compliance with medicines legislation.o To provide expert clinical advice and support on pharmaceutical matters in a specialist area,acting as a role model in clinical pharmacy practice.o To lead and develop audit and research with in own specialist areas.o To ensure there are rational prescribing protocols in place that facilitate all high cost drugs being started, reviewed, continued and discontinued against set criteria
About us
NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
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Person Specification
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Personal Qualities
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Knowledge and skills
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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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Employer details
Employer name
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Scunthorpe General Hospital
Cliff Gardens
Scunthorpe
DN15 7BH