Job summary
- Main area
- cs
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 229-CS-7246342
- Employer
- Wye Valley NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hereford County Hospital
- Town
- Hereford
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Pharmacist - Workforce Development
Band 8b
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Job overview
Wye Valley NHS Trust would like to recruit an exceptional forward- thinking, highly motivated pharmacist to lead of the strategy for pharmacy workforce development, education and training. This position will be based at Hereford County Hospital but there is a requirement to collaborate with other organisations representing One Herefordshire Pharmacy.
This is a new position and is an exciting opportunity to lead the training and development of our enthusiastic team including clinical, technical and support staff.
Our intention is to ensure every staff member has the opportunity to develop and reach their full potential including working across the interface at both pre and post registration level.
We will also support your career development to enable you to effectively support our team and create a compelling vision of how the future might be and creating a culture of empowerment and exciting opportunities for development.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for workforce development including managing the pharmacy education and training team, developing a workforce development strategy.
The post holder will act as a role model for education and training and use their specialist knowledge to develop our team of staff.
Working for our organisation
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.
More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Evidence of registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Post graduate qualification in Clinical Pharmacy
- Independent Prescribing Qualification
Desirable criteria
- Relevant management and/or teaching education qualification and experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant pharmacy experience (in either acute hospital or higher education setting) demonstrating clinical and management effectiveness sufficient to develop and proactively lead the pharmacy team
- Experience of developing the pharmacy workforce
- Experience of supervising others, leading and managing change, working at a leadership level, a record of achievement in leading and managing change, solving problems and managing complex situations
Skills
Essential criteria
- Strategic approach (to be able to promote a strategic vision for workforce development, education and training including clear objectives
- Excellent communicator/presenter (both verbal and written) including complex situations including sensitive and contentious issues including the ability to influence colleagues.
- Evidence of commitment to Continuing Professional Development
Desirable criteria
- Able to influence, motivate and persuade, using tact and persuasive skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hayley Pearson
- Job title
- Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01432 364424
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