Detailed job description and main responsibilities

·       To provide high level operational management of the department, supporting managers within the team to deliver the strategic goals of the pharmacy department across all sites. .

·       To act as the primary link between the Trust, University and Health Education England Kent Surrey and Sussex.  To be accountable for providing  a central focus for Pharmacy Education in service developments within the organisation.

·       To contribute to the operational management of the Pharmacy Board. To generate summary reports for Pharmacy Board outlining the Pharmacy Education and Training position within the Trust. To act as a delegated Pharmacy Board member when required and take a lead on specific initiatives and projects as required. To act as a delegate sponsor for pharmacy board in developing supporting business cases/reports for submission

·       To actively manage, challenge and support clinical lead managers across traditional boundaries ensuring the planning, coordination and monitoring of service level objectives.

·        To lead and support the development and implementation of innovative learning opportunities throughout the service

·       Ensure the service utilises sound educational principles to design, develop, implement and evaluate training programmes in all areas of Pharmacy Education.

·       Embed a research focused culture within Pharmacy through leading weekly/bi-weekly research focused education and training. Represent Pharmacy in the Trust research integrated leadership group and chair the Pharmacy research and audit group. Promote the completion of internal audits/projects with a focus on the efficacy of education and training to ensure that we can meet our requirements of the NHS Education Contract. Promote areas of identified best practice through local, regional and national networks.

·       To hold responsibility for ensuring that programmes delivered meet the educational credibility and are fit for practice, to implement a culture of continued evaluation within training programmes and interpret feedback received to better support trainees.

·       To hold accountability for delivering regular reports to the Trust Healthcare Education Development – Quality Group.

·       The post holder will work with all staff to understand the skill mix within the Pharmacy Department. With this understanding, the post holder will be expected to support the development of the staff optimising their specialist knowledge, skills and experience to best advantage within the service.

·       Assist the Trust Clinical Pharmacy Lead in developing a strategy that supports the delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate education, pre and post registration training and on-going Trust wide training and inter-professional curricula with regards to:

o      The Trust objectives in terms of staff development, learning from incidents to improve patient safety generating a culture of harm free care and to promote educational programme that support the Trust approach to Patient Safety

o      Improved patient experience and safety through inter-professional education, training and learning to develop values, behaviours and practice which supports the patient safety and clinical excellence agenda

o      Development of a regional reputation for excellence.

·       The post holder will act as the Trust NMP lead. This is a Trust supported role which comprises four main functions; communication, coordinating, clinical governance and support. The NMP lead will chair the non-medical prescribing panel as well as delivering and overseeing the delivery of the following objectives:

o      Attend all relevant internal and external meetings relevant to independent prescribing in the Trust and across the System.

o      Be responsible for the presentation and publication of relevant data at a local and regional level.

o      Attends multidisciplinary team meetings related to prescribing as required.

o      Maintains the rapidly expanding Trust database which contains details of Trust NMPs.

o      Supports all NMPs with prescribing issues/errors. Liaises with other hospital staff re: role of NMPs/expectations/capabilities etc.

o      Provides advice as appropriate to all grades of doctors and nurses who request help and support in prescribing for their patients.

o      Hold full responsibility for implementing relevant standards in prescribing.

o      Represent all non-medical prescribing practitioners at senior levels in the Trust and at local and national levels on key issues in independent prescribing.

o      Attends and gives feedback from the Trust and other forums which are relevant to independent prescribing.

o      Actively contributes to setting and monitoring standards in prescribing practice.

o      Helps create and supports the development of the independent prescribing policy.

o      Attends Medicines Governance Committee – reviewing policy changes pertaining to the role.

o      Attends Higher Education Institutes (HEI) prescribing programme board meetings providing feedback/expertise on course programmes

o      Represents the Trust in HEI course development discussions and actively contributes to the ongoing development and integration of pharmacy undergraduates within the Trust Pharmacy departments

o      Supports/advises on appropriate continuous professional development (CPD) for NMP’s, providing links i.e. e-learning/websites/journals/apps etc.