Pharmacy Manager

JR United Kingdom; Eastleigh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking a proactive Pharmacy Manager to lead a dedicated team in delivering high-quality clinical care. This role involves overseeing medicines management, conducting ward rounds, and ensuring adherence to safety protocols across various departments. You'll be instrumental in optimizing patient care and leading initiatives to minimize hospital-acquired infections. With a commitment to employee wellbeing, the organization offers a comprehensive benefits package, including gym memberships and health assessments. Join a supportive environment where your expertise can make a significant impact on patient outcomes and team performance.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council and experience in clinical pharmacy.
• Leadership experience in a Pharmacy setting is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the pharmacy team, ensuring safe and effective medicines management.
• Conduct daily ward rounds and oversee medication safety alerts and drug recalls.

Skills

Leadership

Communication Skills

Organizational Skills

Decision Making

Patient Counseling

Education

Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Experience in a clinical setting as a Pharmacist

Tools

RADAR system

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Nuffield Health Wessex Hospital | Pharmacy

Permanent | Full-Time (37.5 Hours)

At Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest healthcare charity, everything we give our patients, members, and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, your drive to make a difference. Whether it’s driving connected health, helping the nation, transforming experiences, or building the career you want – we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

Our Nuffield Health Wessex Hospital is seeking an enthusiastic and proactive Pharmacy Manager to join the team.

Duties will include ensuring adherence to medicines optimisation policies and procedures, providing oversight of pharmaceutical stock procurement, as well as other associated pharmaceutical duties and having a key role in delivering high-quality clinical care and advice to our patients and teams across a range of departments including ICU/HDU, the Pre-assessment clinic, Outpatient Department, Ward, Theatres, and Oncology Team.

The opportunity

You will have excellent communication and organisational skills; the ability to work under pressure and influence others whilst always maintaining a professional attitude. As a Pharmacy Manager, it is important that you are confident to work independently as well as a member of our larger health professional community, leading a team to always strive to improve the quality of our services for our patients.

As a Pharmacy Manager, you will:

• Provide leadership and advice on medicines management to ensure that processes across all clinical departments throughout the hospital are safe, cost-effective, and legal, and are supported by up-to-date policies, procedures, and guidelines. This will include chairing the Medicines Management Forum on a quarterly basis.
• Be responsible for leading, motivating, and effectively managing the pharmacy team by providing excellent leadership.
• As the Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead, optimise the management of antimicrobials to minimise the occurrence of hospital-acquired infections by ensuring pharmacy adherence to up-to-date policies, guidelines, and systems of work. Undertake regular audit of this in conjunction with the IP nurse/nurse team.
• Ensure the pharmacy team undertake daily ward rounds reconciling medication for new inpatients; counselling patients; managing PODs and checking for relevant allergies, adverse drug reactions, and contraindications to treatment, ensuring all medicines prescribed are clinically appropriate in line with national and/or local policies and guidelines.
• Assist and lead the team in facilitating timely and informed discharge of patients returning to primary care by dispensing, accuracy checking, and clinically checking TTOs, counselling patients prior to discharge.
• Lead on the implementation of medication safety alerts and drug recalls for the hospital, working closely with the Director of Clinical Services.
• Implement and monitor DoH guidance on all aspects of controlled drugs use in the hospital and ensure the CD audit is completed quarterly.
• Ensure errors, complaints, and incidents are managed in line with the Nuffield Health guidelines, specifically reporting these using the RADAR system and reviewing/investigating relevant RADAR reports relating to medicines.
• Support the development of other healthcare professionals and deliver medicines-focused training upon request.

As a Pharmacy Manager, you will have:

• Be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Experience of working in a clinical setting as a Pharmacist is essential.
• Leadership/managerial experience in a Pharmacy setting.
• Ability to share evidence-based practices with colleagues to enhance service and standards.
• The ability to make decisions and use your initiative.
• A passion to deliver excellent care in a rewarding and often emotionally challenging environment.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy, and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health, and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts, and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Wessex Hospital

Nuffield Health Wessex Hospital is a stunning 46-bedded private hospital in West Hampshire with specialisms in Orthopaedics, Ophthalmology, Urology, Women’s Health, and Spinal surgery. The hospital also benefits from having onsite Radiology, Pathology, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, and Hydrotherapy so we can give our patients a complete package of care. There are 16 consulting rooms with specialty outpatient rooms, 46 private patient bedrooms with en-suite facilities, a 24 hr resident doctor on site (RMO), and four operating theatres and one endoscopy suite.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

Applications will be considered as they are received, and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early, for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications. Therefore, please apply early to ensure you are considered for the post.