Pharmacy Manager

Nuffield Health; Epsom; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare charity in Epsom is seeking an experienced Pharmacy Manager to lead pharmacy services with a focus on oncology. You will provide leadership, ensure adherence to medicines policies, and advise on safe medication practices. The ideal candidate must have significant oncology pharmacy experience and strong leadership skills. Join us to create the future of patient care while enjoying attractive benefits including gym membership and health assessments.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Qualifications

• Significant oncology pharmacy experience in a hospital or specialist setting is essential.
• Experience of working in a clinical setting as a Pharmacist.
• Leadership and managerial experience in a Pharmacy setting.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and advice on medicines management.
• Ensure compliance with medicines optimization policies.
• Lead, motivate, and manage the pharmacy team.
• Optimise management of antimicrobials to minimize infections.
• Counsel patients regarding medication before discharge.
• Implement medication safety alerts and manage drug recalls.

Skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Decision-making skills

Oncology knowledge

Education

Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or oncology

Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Job description

Pharmacy Manager

Brighton Hospital | Permanent | Full Time

Up to £65,000 per annum dependent on experience

37.5 hours per week

At Nuffield Health the UKs 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 Brighton Hospital are seeking an experienced and motivated Pharmacy Manager to lead our pharmacy services with a specialist focus on oncology. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic leader who is passionate about delivering high‑quality patient care and advancing oncology pharmacy practice.

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, Oncology, Pre-assessment clinic, Outpatient Department, Ward and Theatres.

You will have excellent communication and organisational skills; have the ability to work under pressure and influence others whilst always maintaining a professional attitude. As a Pharmacy Manager it is important that you will be 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.
• Provide expert clinical input into oncology treatment pathways and medicines optimisation.
• 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 contra‑indications to treatment, ensuring all medicines prescribed are clinically appropriate in line with national and / or local policies and guidelines etc.
• 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 and in facilitating timely and informed discharge of patients returning to primary care.
• 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.
• Significant oncology pharmacy experience (hospital or specialist setting).
• Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or oncology. (is this essential?)
• Experience of working in a clinical setting as a Pharmacist is essential.
• Leadership / managerial experience in a Pharmacy setting.

An awareness and knowledge of Oncology Pharmacy.

Share evidence based practices with colleagues to enhance service and standards.

The ability to make decisions and use your initiative.

Strong communication skills.

Passion to deliver excellent care in a rewarding and what can be 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.

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