Clinical Pharmacy Team Leader (XR09)

Leeds Teaching Hospitals; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Leeds is seeking a motivated Pharmacist to lead a team in delivering specialized clinical pharmacy services in adult medicine. The role involves managing a team, strategizing service delivery, and ensuring cost-effective drug therapy. Strong leadership, excellent communication skills, and significant clinical experience are essential. This position offers a dynamic and varied work environment in a busy hospital setting.

Qualifications

• Significant post-registration experience as a practicing clinical pharmacist.
• Ability to deal with complex clinical and managerial issues.
• Understanding of local and national pharmaceutical and clinical strategies.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of pharmacists delivering clinical pharmacy services.
• Develop strategic plans for pharmacy services.
• Responsible for the provision of clinical governance and service delivery.

Skills

Team player

Leadership

Excellent communication skills

Problem solver

Adaptable

Education

Masters qualification in Pharmacy

Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Job description

Areyou an enthusiastic and proactive leader looking for your next challenge? Doyou enjoy working in a dedicated team environment? We are looking for an passionate andmotivated Pharmacist to lead and manage a team of pharmacy professionals,alongside the pharmacy services to our unplanned care - adult medicinespecialities at LGI including trauma and orthopaedics, neurology andneurosurgery, cardiology, vascular surgery, adult critical care, ENT/head andneck & plastic surgery

Areyou interested in being part of an innovative pharmacy department and beinstrumental in influencing the direction of pharmacy services within theseareas? If you want to work as part of a dynamic and forward thinking team tomake a difference to patient care, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Youwill be responsible for the provision and development of clinical pharmacyservices to our adult medicine specialities within unplanned care at LeedsGeneral Infirmary.. You will lead and line manage a team of clinicalpharmacists that are responsible for clinical pharmacy across a range ofspecialities including trauma and orthopaedics, neurology and neurosurgery,cardiology, vascular surgery, adult critical care, ENT/head and neck &plastic surgery

Youwill develop strategic plans and staffing requirements for pharmacy servicesto these areas.

Youwill develop and manage the delivery of pharmacy services to ensure efficientuse of resources and systems including monitoring drug expenditure anddelivery of financial savings. You will be responsible for the provision ofinformation to CSU's regarding clinical and financial governance, and issuesaround service delivery and future developments.

Thereare fantastic opportunities for get involved in quality improvement andpractice research projects

Wewant you to inspire our diverse and highly skilled team of clinical pharmacystaff and play a key leadership role in the Trust, and wider care systems, indelivering our vision of medicines optimisation within these unplanned carespecialities.

About us

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is one of the largest and busiest NHS trusts in thecountry, providing a wide range of specialist and general hospital servicesfor the people of Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond. With a strong focus oninnovation, education and research, we are proud to deliver world-class careacross our five hospital sites.

AtLeeds General Infirmary we deliver world-class specialist services includingone of the UKs busiest Trauma and Orthopaedics centres, advanced Neurologyand Neurosurgery, and regional hubs for Cardiology and Vascular Surgery. OurAdult Critical Care unit supports patients across trauma, neurosurgery andbeyond, while our expert teams in ENT, Head & Neck and Plastic Surgeryprovide highly specialised care with regional and national referrals.Together these services create a dynamic, varied and stimulating environment.

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job advertsare subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or removeadverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in theshortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while thisprocess is completed, and contact the named contact if you have anyquestions.

Job responsibilities

JOBDETAILS

JOBPURPOSE

Tomanage a team of pharmacists delivering specialist clinical pharmacy servicesto specified Clinical Service/Support Units (CSUs) within the Trust. To bethe first point of contact, and support for the CSUs, on all mattersrelating to pharmacy.

JOBDIMENSIONS

Provide expert opinion, both withinand outside pharmacy, to ensure the safe and effective delivery of drugtherapy to defined clinical areas.

Provide pharmaceutical professionalleadership for defined clinical areas by liaison with pharmacy operationalservices and key members of the CSU. Be responsible for professionalleadership for specified area of Trust e.g. locality hospital.

The post holder will also performthe role of a lead clinical pharmacist to a defined clinical area. In thisrole, the post holder will ensure medicines are used appropriately, safely,and cost-effectively in accordance with Trust policy, standard operatingprocedures and medicine legislation. The post holder is expected to determinehow the outcomes are best achieved in specific circumstances.

Manage a team of specialistpharmacists providing clinical pharmacy services to the defined clinicalareas and CSUs

Responsible for the provision ofinformation to the CSUs regarding clinical and financial governance, andissues around service delivery and future developments

Responsible for the co-ordinationof training for pharmacists and other healthcare professionals on aspects ofdrug use within defined clinical specialities.

Provide a minimum of at least onesession of professional supervisory cover in the dispensary, asepticdispensary, Medicines Information Department or other related activity. Thepost holder will be required to work evenings, weekends and Bank Holidays ona rotational basis.

To act as the responsiblepharmacist in line with local procedures.

4. ORGANISATIONAL CHART

ClinicalDirector

*Nonspecialist Clinical Pharmacist (not always directly line managed)

5. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCEREQUIRED

Masters qualification in Pharmacy(4 years), or equivalent qualification, plus 1 year pre-registrationtraining.

Member of the GeneralPharmaceutical Council

Postgraduate Diploma in ClinicalPharmacy or equivalent experience or qualification

Significant post registrationexperience as a practising clinical pharmacist, including two years as aspecialist pharmacist in an area relevant to the post. Ability to demonstrate competency in thesix areas required for RPS Faculty advanced levels of practice, independentof the sector of practice.

Proven ability to have successfullydealt with highly complex clinical and managerial issues which required thepharmacist to analyse and formulate a response, based on a range of sources,some of which may not be in agreement, In these situations, it maybenecessary to find a novel solution to an unusual clinical or managerialsituation. The pharmacist will have developed negotiating and persuasiveskills when interacting with other clinical team members, hospital managers,patients and relatives

Experience of dealing with a widevariety and grade of hospital staff on a regular and ongoing basis, includingsenior medical and managerial staff.

Specialist knowledge of a clinicalarea/department which demonstrates abilityto manage a caseload, preferably within the clinical speciality.

6. THE LEEDS WAY VALUES

Ourvalues are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see thisas a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by ourstaff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

Accountable

Empowered

Allour actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values

Additionallythe following are core values which relate specifically to this post:

Professional attitude

Committed to CPD

Deal with customers with honestyand integrity

Highly motivated to ensure thatservice is continually assessed to ensure improved patientoutcomes/experience.

Empathetic and sensitive tocustomer needs (these include both patients and members of NHS staff)

Strict adherence to patientconfidentiality

7. CORE BEHAVIOURS AND SKILLS

Team player and leader

Professional attitude

Committed to CPD

Calm disposition

Deal with customers with honestyand integrity

Lateral thinker and good problemsolver

Excellent communication skillswritten, verbal, and listening

Can use own initiative

Excellent time management skillswith effective prioritisation skills and the ability to working underpressure

Highly developed influencing andnegotiating skills

Adaptable to changing circumstancesand situations

8. CORE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

Knowledge of and complies withappropriate medicines legislation e.g. Medicines Act 1968 and Misuse of DrugsAct 1971

Broad clinical knowledge throughpre /post graduate experience.

Appropriate understanding and theapplication of knowledge to clinical practice.

Take responsibility for actions,understands own limitations and knows when to seek advice.

Knowledge of and complies withpatient confidentiality legislation.

9. PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OFRESPONSIBILITY

Provide pharmaceutical care to agroup of patients in various specialities on a rotational basis. Beresponsible for ensuring that the legal and statutory requirements inrelation to medicines are met and ensure that the delivery of pharmaceuticalcare to patients in the defined clinical area meets both national and localstandards.

Provide professional pharmacistcover on a sessional basis to inpatient and outpatient dispensaries,Medicines Information, Aseptic services and Mental Health, in order to meetlegal requirements.

Participate in the dispensing andchecking of clinical trial materials

Participates in documenting ofprescribing and administration near misses(interventions)

Pharmacists who are registered asprescribers will, with the agreement of the clinical director of thespeciality, prescribe within their level of competence, to support patientcare.

Assist clinical colleagues in thedevelopment and implementation of policies and procedures for the informed,economic use of medicines

Assist clinical colleagues withhorizon scanning activities for new treatments and products in the relevantarea and with submissions to the Drugs and Therapeutics committee

Assist clinical colleagues in theprovision of accurate financial and risk-management data to the appropriateClinical Management Team for the speciality

Participate in the provision ofEducation and Training activities for all pharmacy staff

Participate in research anddevelopment programs and audit within pharmacy services

Receive prescription payments frompatients where appropriate.

Participate in the departmentslate night and weekend working arrangements.

Person Specification

Skills and Behaviours

• team player
• Be highly adaptive to changing circumstances and situations
• lateral thinker and good problem solver
• Exceptional communication skills written, verbal, and listening
• Be able to plan effectively both own workload and that of specialist team
• Leadership

Experience

• Very significant post registration clinical pharmacy experience
• Understanding and appreciation of local and national pharmaceutical and clinical strategies
• Team dynamics and effective leadership strategies to optimise performance

Qualifications

• MRPharmS
• Post Graduate Diploma or clinical pharmacy equivalent
• non-medical precriber

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.