Advanced Specialist Pharmacist Team Leader

North London NHS Foundation Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in London is seeking a dynamic Pharmacist Team Lead to lead their Enfield pharmacy service. In this pivotal role, you will guide a dedicated pharmacy team, influence service development, and contribute to strategic initiatives that enhance patient safety and clinical outcomes. This opportunity is ideal for a proactive leader who is committed to improving healthcare quality and driving change in a collaborative environment. Exciting development prospects await you.

Benefits

Supportive work environment

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven leadership skills in a clinical pharmacy setting.
• Experience in service development aligned with health initiatives.
• Strong networking capabilities with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire the pharmacy team in service delivery.
• Influence service development and enhance patient safety.
• Implement the Medicines Optimisation Strategy effectively.

Skills

Dynamic leadership

Clinical pharmacy practice

Team collaboration

Service development

Patient-centered care

Education

Pharmacist qualification

Job description

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk, We have an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacist Team Lead to head up our Enfield pharmacy service. This is a pivotal time to join North London NHS Foundation Trust, as we continue to modernise and innovate in the way we deliver high-quality, patient-centred pharmacy support.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Lead and inspire a dedicated pharmacy team;
• Influence service development aligned with the NHS Long Term Plan;
• Contribute to trust-wide strategic initiatives that enhance patient safety and clinical outcomes;
• Build strong relationships with multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders;
• Develop your leadership skills within a supportive, collaborative environment.

We are a friendly, motivated, and inclusive team providing a comprehensive trust-wide pharmacy service. We are seeking a dynamic, resilient, proactive, and forward-thinking leader who shares our enthusiasm for service improvement and our commitment to delivering excellent care for our patients and communities.

If you are passionate about driving change, eager to develop your leadership skills, and ready to take on a rewarding challenge, we would love to hear from you.

• To support the Associate Chief Pharmacist and Clinical Operations Lead Pharmacist in leading, developing, delivering, and evaluating pharmacy services and medicines optimisation as delegated by the Chief and Deputy Chief Pharmacists.
• To be an active member of the Pharmacy team with allocated management responsibilities.
• Provide leadership, maintain and improve standards of clinical pharmacy practice, quality assurance, risk management and other issues of clinical governance related to medicines optimisation.
• To play a leading role in delivering the Medicines Optimisation Strategy.
• To hold a Trust-wide leadership position for Medicines Optimisation in a defined specialist area of practice and maintain a clinical commitment.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people. Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.