Principal Pharmacist - Operations

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Orpington; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Orpington is seeking a strategic leader to join their team, focusing on outpatient services and mentoring junior pharmacists. This role emphasizes the importance of implementing best practices and ensuring quality standards. The ideal candidate will be committed to sustainable healthcare initiatives and ready to make a significant impact in patient services.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership skills in clinical settings.
• Ability to mentor junior pharmacists and build their confidence.
• Experience in implementing best practices aligned with standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional and clinical strategic leadership.
• Support and supervise junior pharmacists in clinical development.
• Ensure quality standards for new service implementation.

Job description

The postholder will work alongside the Deputy Chief Pharmacist Operations to provide professional and clinical strategic leadership and advice to the Chief Pharmacist, and the Trust, on the development of patient services. Specifically, they will be responsible for leading, delivering, developing, managing and evaluating clinical practice in trust delivered outpatient services as well as ensuring medicines are supplied against the most appropriate pathways

• To provide professional and clinical strategic leadership advice on the development of patient services.
• To provide direct support and clinical supervision to junior and trainee pharmacists rotating through patient services to support clinical development and build confidence in a fast-paced environment.
• To proactively identify and encourage the adoption of best practices, ensuring guidelines and procedures are regularly updated to align with local and national standards,
• To ensure quality standards and performance indicators are agreed and in place for any new service/ transformation projects being implemented within patient services.
• To engage with Willow analysts and other trust sites in the development of digital build to optimise functionality of outpatient prescribing pathways.
  
  

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Paul Bains Job title: Deputy Chief Pharmacist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01689 864 002