Pharmacy Manager

Nuffield Health; Eastleigh; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a proactive Pharmacy Manager to lead a dedicated team in delivering high-quality clinical care. This role involves ensuring adherence to medicines optimisation policies, overseeing pharmaceutical stock procurement, and providing leadership across various clinical departments. With a focus on patient safety and effective management, you'll play a key role in optimising antimicrobial use and facilitating timely patient discharges. Join a forward-thinking healthcare provider that values your contributions and offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance your well-being and career development.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Qualifications

• Proven experience in pharmacy management and leadership.
• Strong knowledge of medicines management policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Lead the pharmacy team ensuring safe and effective medicines management.
• Oversee pharmaceutical stock procurement and clinical care delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Medicines Management

Clinical Care

Antimicrobial Stewardship

Patient Counseling

Education

Pharmacy Degree

Registered Pharmacist

Tools

RADAR System

Job description

Salary: GBP0 - GBP62000 per annum + gym & other benefits

Pharmacy Manager

Nuffield Health Wessex Hospital | Pharmacy | Permanent | Full Time

Up to £62,000 per annum, depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

Our Nuffield Health Wessex Hospital are 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 have 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.

As a Pharmacy Manager, you will:

1. 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.
2. Be responsible for leading, motivating and effectively managing the pharmacy team by providing excellent leadership.
3. 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.
4. Ensuring 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 contra-indications to treatment, ensuring all medicines prescribed are clinically appropriate in line with national and/or local policies and guidelines.
5. 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.
6. Lead on the implementation of medication safety alerts and drug recalls for the hospital working closely with the Director of Clinical Services.
7. Implement and monitor DoH guidance on all aspects of controlled drugs use in the hospital and ensure the CD audit is completed quarterly.
8. 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.
9. Support the development of other healthcare professionals and deliver medicines-focused training upon request.

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.

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.