Outpatient Pharmacy manager - full time (12 month fixed term)

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 57,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in North London is seeking an Outpatient Pharmacy Manager. The role involves managing pharmacy services, ensuring patient safety, and leading a dedicated team. Ideal candidates have GPHC registration, significant hospital pharmacy experience, and strong communication skills. Full training is provided, with no on-call hours required. Competitive salary between £57,782.40 and £67,204.80 annually.

Qualifications

• Registered with the GPhC with no adverse Fitness to Practice record.
• At least three years of UK Pharmacy experience.
• Experience working in a hospital pharmacy.

Responsibilities

• Act as a role model and the Responsible Pharmacist.
• Clinically screen prescriptions and check for accuracy.
• Counsel patients regarding their medication.

Skills

GPHC registration

Fluent written and spoken English

Strong ability to multi-task

Evidence of clinical problem solving

Strong communication skills

Strong people skills

Experience in outpatient Pharmacy

Education

GPhC registration as an Independent prescriber

Tools

JAC/CMM

Prescription tracking systems (PTS)

Job description

Outpatient Pharmacy manager - full time (12 month fixed term)

Whittington Pharmacy CIC (wholly owned subsidiary of the hospital) is a vibrant state of the art workspace based within The Whittington Hospital, North London.

Our aim is to provide the very best, efficient, safe and friendly service, tailored to the needs of our customers.

You will be working in a busy but supportive environment alongside an experienced but friendly team, whilst maintaining a healthy work-life balance. This role is perfect for a pharmacist who is looking to expand their clinical knowledge and use it each day in an outpatient setting that has a focus on patient safety and patient experience. No on-call hours.

This role is suitable for an experienced hospital Pharmacists. Full training and support will be provided to ensure you can confidently lead the Outpatient Pharmacy team and safeguard our diverse patient cohort (Oncology, Thalassaemia, Dermatology, Paediatrics, Rheumatology, Gastroenterology, TB, General outpatient clinics and A&E).

Main duties of the job

As a Pharmacy manager, you will be responsible for the provision of exceptional professional pharmacy services. The focus of your role will be to act as a role model and the Responsible Pharmacist and provide support to the Superintendent Pharmacist and help with the day to day running of the Pharmacy and line management duties. You will be working alongside 3 other Pharmacists as well as the rest of the pharmacy team. A comprehensive induction and onsite training will be provided with ongoing training opportunities and exposure to clinical settings. You will help in providing a consistent high quality, accurate, safe and timely patient experience.

Summary of duties and Pharmacy services:

• Clinically screening of prescriptions
• Final accuracy checking of prescriptions
• Counselling patients for their medication
• KPI and workflow management
• Line managements
• Service rota management
• Procurement oversight and management
• Provision of Pharmacy services (TBC)

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Job responsibilities

For more information please see the attached JD document and for an informal discussion please contact the Superintendent Pharmacist - Delaram Salehifard

Person Specification

Skills

• GPHC registration
• Fluent written and spoken English including good numeracy
• Strong ability to multi-task, prioritise, plan and organise
• Evidence of clinical problem solving and customer care
• Strong communication skills - must be able to recognise and overcome barriers to understanding e.g. language, deaf, learning difficulties
• Strong people skills - able to work with and lead people
• Good experience of meetings KPIs and managing workflow
• Experience in outpatient Pharmacy

Experience

• Experience of working in a hospital pharmacy
• At least three years of UK Pharmacy experience
• Experience of using JAC/CMM
• Experience of using prescription tracking systems (PTS)
• Experience of working in an automated dispensary environment

Qualification

• Registered with the GPhC with no adverse Fitness to Practice record
• Registered with the GPhC as an Independent prescriber

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.

£57,782.40 to £67,204.80 a year per annum (Non Agenda for Change)