Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 349-CSS-6207050*
- Employer
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Oxford Road Campus, WTWA or NMGH
- Town
- Manchester
- Salary
- £70,417 - £81,138 per annum.
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Medicines Value Lead Pharmacist
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Job overview
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated individual to join our team as a Medicines Value Lead Pharmacist. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the safe, effective, and cost-efficient use of medicines across our trust. You will work closely with hospital clinical teams, stakeholders, and external partners to optimise the value of medicines, contributing to improved patient outcomes and financial sustainability.
Reporting to the Deputy Chief Pharmacist, Medicines Optimisation and Governance and supporting the Group Chief Pharmacist, the post holder will identify, manage, and deliver medicines value projects for both high-cost drugs and in tariff medicines. The post holder will also be professionally and managerially accountable for delivery and performance of the third-party pharmacy services (Homecare and outpatients) and development of strategic options to deliver best value models for delivery of medicines to patients.
This exciting new role will require the post holder to demonstrate excellent leadership and organisational skills. You will need to be able to communicate effectively across all levels of the healthcare system and be innovative in your approach to service transformation. The ability to effectively engage with and influence key stakeholders and manage and motivate others is essential to the success of this role.
Main duties of the job
- Work in partnership with the Group Chief Pharmacist, and Pharmacy Senior Leadership Team to identify, manage and deliver key medicines value projects across the Division for both high-cost drugs and in tariff medicines.
- Develop strategic options to deliver best value models for MFT including homecare and outpatients and review existing medicines courier services.
- Identify efficiencies associated with the implementation of the HIVE system and be responsible for managing and implementing new innovative ways of working to deliver savings.
- Be professionally and managerially accountable for delivery and performance of the Third-party Pharmacy Services (Homecare and Outpatients)
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Person specification
Education/Qualifcations
Essential criteria
- Vocational 4 year masters degree in pharmacy, 1 year pre registration training and experience. Member of GPhC.
- Post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent documented clinical experience
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Project Management Qualification
- Leadership / Management Qualification or completion of formal Leadership programme
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive recent post-registration hospital experience in a range of clinical specialities, ideally including experience in a teaching hospital
- Experience of leading and managing teams within pharmacy and other associated staff groups to deliver a high quality pharmacy service
- Evidence of pharmacy service development, change and innovation
- Experience of contributing and leading medicines value workstreams
- Experience of medicines optimisation
- Experience of leading pharmacy service improvements in acute hospital setting
- Experience of writing reports and business cases
- Setting and delivering high standard of care
- Audit / research experience
- Performance Management and development of staff.
- Financial awareness in the management of medicines budgets and commissioning arrangements
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of published audit/research
- Experience of disciplinary matters and imparting results from them to staff in an appropriate and considered manner
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Able to negotiate a positive outcome. Ability to affect and manage change with an ability to motivate others.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Ability to use own initiative and problem solve.
- Team dynamics and effective leadership strategies to optimise performance. Ability to manage time, people and resources to deliver outcomes
- Ability to develop services
- Team building skills
- Ability to prioritise and plan work effectively alone and when leading a team, including the ability to delegate appropriately
- Ability to prioritise workload, work accurately, positively and calmly under pressure, and meet deadlines
- Applies sound professional judgement to legal and ethical issues
- Holding to account others to ensure they deliver to their targets and dealing effectively with performance.
Desirable criteria
- IT skills
- Teaching and tutoring skills
- Formal project management training.
- Experience of partnership Working.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good all round clinical and medicines optimisation knowledge
- Sound knowledge base of the NHS, the current issues, its values and principles of timely local access for the population.
- Sound knowledge of hospital pharmacy services and medicines delivery models including Outpatients and Homecare
- Understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and the implications of this
- Awareness of National Guidance/ Policies and evidence of application of these within organisation.
- Demonstrated commitment to CPD
Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Reliable, enthusiastic, confident
- Flexible and adaptable
- Motivated by the desire to improve patient care
- Must behave in a professional manner at all times
- Knows own professional and personal limitations and seeks advice when necessary
- Willingness to participate in weekend, evening, Bank holiday and on-call rotas as required.
- Willingness to contribute to the general life and work of the Pharmacy and Trust
Desirable criteria
- Have own transport
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Adele MacKellar
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist, MO & Governance
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 2914195
- Additional information
For further details / informal visits please contact:
Adele MacKellar, Deputy Chief Pharmacist, Medicines Optimisation and Governance via email at [email protected] or 0161 2914195
or
John Landers, Divisional Director of Pharmacy via email at [email protected] or call 0161 2914195
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