Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-0429-DIR-A
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Hallamshire Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £74,290 - £85,601 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 11/07/2025
Employer heading
Pharmacy Healthcare Governance Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8c
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
Following the retirement of the existing postholder, there is an exciting opportunity to join the Senior Pharmacy Management Team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for the above role.
Medicines safety and governance is mission critical to every aspect of patient care, meaning the strategic importance of this role to the organisation is hugely significant. Developing, leading and delivering the Medicines Safety Strategy at STH is a key role of this post; working with senior consultants, governance leads across the organisation and ICS, and all staff groups within Pharmacy ensures a broad and challenging remit requiring an exceptional candidate.
Acting as Professional Secretary to the Trust’s Medicines Safety Group, the ideal candidate will posses excellent time management, critical analysis, incident investigation, action plan development and report writing skills, along with a governance-focussed yet practical medicines safety mindset.
The trust will give you time to use your skills and help you develop a fulfilling career as well as a commitment to support flexible working and can support such things as, part time hours, condensed hours, or job share. These options are not exhaustive, and we would encourage candidates to state any forms of flexible working they would like to explore in their application.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
- Leading the Medicines Safety agenda at a Trust-level.
- Ensuring STH compliance with complex legal and statutory requirements around medicines are met.
- Act as lead author for the Trust wide Medicines Code.
- Oversee medicines recalls, patient safety alerts and action plan development.
- Develop and disseminate medicines safety bulletins and other communications/training on medicines safety issues.
- Lead on the development and maintenance of Pharmacy Risk Register entries, incident/complaint responses and corresponding action plans.
- Oversee Clinical Audit Programme & represent Pharmacy on the Safety and Risk Forum.
- Oversee the Pharmacy Quality Improvement programme.
- Directly support the Chief Pharmacist in ensuring all policies and procedures relating to medicines safety are introduced effectively across the organisation.
- Providing management support to approximately 9wte staff.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. It is an energetic and vibrant organisation that places patients and staff at the heart of everything they do. We provide a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Sheffield, as well as specialist care for patients from further afield, including cancer, spinal cord injuries, renal and cardiothoracic services.
As a teaching hospital, we have a great commitment to education, training, and development of staff, including undergraduates from many professions. You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it services. The NHS offers a wide range of benefits including pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance and career, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MPharm degree in pharmacy
- Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Management or leadership qualification
- Demonstrated ability to work at Doctorate level
- Higher degree/post-graduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent qualification or equivalent experience.
Desirable criteria
- Post-graduate Masters qualification in clinical pharmacy or leadership
- Project/Programme Management/Quality Improvement qualification e.g. PRINCE 2, MSP or equivalent experience
- Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Audit
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post registration experience as a practising clinician at advanced level within a UK pharmacy entity
- Significant experience at senior management level or ability to demonstrate equivalent experience of staff management, human resources policies and project management.
- Evidence of ability to plan, lead and evaluate complex services and utilisation of leadership skills in highly complex projects and change management skills
- Awareness and interpretation of guidance, legal and statutory requirements from national bodies relating to medicine safety.
- Business planning and financial/budgetary experience
- Research, audit, service improvement and publication experience.
- Experience of writing complex documents including policies, procedures and reports.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates understanding of culture and climate within pharmacy and the NHS.
- Ability to develop and implement Trust wide strategy for medicine safety.
- Ability to develop and oversee the implementation of robust multidisciplinary Trust wide action plans in response to national patient safety alerts, significant incidents or similar ad- hoc events or recommendations.
- Ability to work autonomously, with excellent time management and prioritisation skills.
- Ability to analyse, interpret and communicate highly complex clinical and technical information in an informative manner to a wide range of individuals. Demonstrates advanced level of reasoning and ability to manage difficult and ambiguous problems.
- Competent at using the full range of Microsoft office programmes
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of Datix
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Graham Marsh
- Job title
- Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 271 4164
- Additional information
Nicky Thomas
Pharmacy Healthcare Governance Manager (existing post holder)
0114 2713007 (Weds-Fri)
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