Pharmacy Procurement and Distribution Manager

NHS; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is looking for a Pharmacy Procurement and Distribution Manager to lead services ensuring safe and effective procurement. This role involves compliance with legislation, managing staff training, and strategic representation. Candidates should be registered pharmacy technicians with experience in hospital pharmacy and procurement services. The position offers flexible working arrangements and competitive pay based in Aylesbury.

Benefits

NHS benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Hospital Pharmacy experience required.
• Experience in delivering a Procurement and Distribution service.
• Experience of line managing and following HR policies.
• Experience in change management.

Responsibilities

• Assist in providing high quality patient-centered pharmacy services.
• Ensure compliance with medicines legislation and guidelines.
• Provide professional leadership to pharmacy staff.

Skills

Prioritisation and workload management

Procedure writing and implementation

Negotiation

IT literacy

Personal organisation

Team leadership

Motivation

Initiative

Target achievement

Competency recognition

Change implementation

Recruitment and retention

Professional competency maintenance

Education

Registered Pharmacy Technician with General Pharmaceutical Council

Management Qualification

Pre-registration trainee pharmacy technician assessor course

Job description

Pharmacy Procurement and Distribution Manager

Assist the Procurement and Distribution (P&D) Team Leader in the following:

• Safe, high quality patient centred Procurement and Distribution services (P&D). This includes all aspects of medicine storage, including medical gases, aligned with the guidance document "Rules and Guidance for Pharmaceutical Distributors" and the Trust's Wholesale Distribution Authorisation (for medicines for human use) aka WDA(H).
• The planning, development, monitoring, audit, evaluation and delivery of the P&D services across the Trust.
• Ensuring that working practices meet requirements of medicines legislation as well as professional, local and national guidelines.
• Implementing necessary changes, thereby ensuring the delivery of a comprehensive, high quality service.
• Provide professional leadership and management of all aspects of P&D services for all staff members who work within the area. This includes pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pre-registration staff, trainee pharmacists and support workers.
• Management of regional and national contracts and ensuring departmental compliance.
• Ensuring that appropriate training is provided and documented for all staff working in the area.
• Promote excellence within the P&D department and model behaviours of continuous learning and improvement to others.
• Represent BHT at regional and national levels and participate in the wider strategic agenda for pharmacy technicians

Main duties of the job

Please refer to the comprehensive Job Description and Personal Specification for a full list of the main responsibilities and duties.

About us

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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

We're committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

What do we stand for?

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the comprehensive Job Description and Personal Specification for a full list of the main responsibilities and duties.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacy Technician with General Pharmaceutical Council
• First line management training or a management Qualification.
• Pre-registration trainee pharmacy technician assessor course/ Workplace Training supervisor

Experience

• Hospital Pharmacy Experience
• Experience in delivering a Procurement and Distribution service
• Experience of line managing and following HR policies
• Experience of day to day supervision and training
• Experience in change management

Skills, abilities and knowledge

• The ability to prioritise and manage own workload and that of the team.
• Able to write and implement procedures.
• Able to negotiate and work through difficult situations.
• IT literate.
• Good personal organisational skills and the ability to organise others.
• Able to work as a team-leader.
• Self-motivated and able to motivate others.
• Able to use own initiative and work alone.
• Ability to achieve targets
• Able to recognise limits of competency and seek advice from colleagues
• Able to identify areas where change is needed, embrace new ideas and with the support of senior colleagues implement change
• To have experience in recruitment and retention of staff
• Maintain professional competency & evidence of CPD

Special circumstance

• Able to travel all sites within Trust and to venues for training
• Weekend and Bank holiday working as per rota

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.

Stoke Mandeville Hospital (with some cross site working)

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time,Job share,Flexible working

Reference number

434-SCS6280287-I

Job locations

Stoke Mandeville Hospital (with some cross site working)