Deputy Director of Pharmacy - Band 8D

Are you looking for the next step into more senior pharmacy management role? Are you an aspiring Chief Pharmacist?

Due to a restructure within the department's senior leadership team, an exciting opportunity has arisen to become our Deputy Director of Pharmacy.

As the Deputy Director you will have your own portfolio of work as well as deputising for the Director of Pharmacy when they are unavailable.

Main duties of the job

Your main responsibilities will be for the development and implementation of the pharmacy people and financial plans.

You will develop a robust workforce plan by engaging with key stakeholders, both within trust, ICS, region and beyond. This plan will consider the new training of pharmacy professionals and the expanding roles of the non-registered workforce. To deliver this you will lead the Pharmacy's Learning and Development team and work with a variety of teams at all levels of the NHS.

Your financial plan will include the use of medicines, their commissioning and a robust cost improvement plan to keep the pharmacy department in financial balance. To do this you will liaise with many stakeholders, both within and outside of the Trust, and lead the Pharmacy’s Pharmacoeconomics team.

Both of these responsibilities will require you to have excellent communication and negotiation skills with clinical and non-clinical colleagues at all levels.

Person specification

Education / Training / Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Education to Masters level in Pharmacy
• Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a “Pharmacist”
• Post graduate qualification relevant to pharmacy practice or a portfolio that demonstrates the acquisition and use of higher levels of specialist knowledge
• Management development or qualification relevant to the NHS

Work Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant post qualification experience in hospital pharmacy
• Significant demonstrable experience in leading and working effectively in a multi-professional team environment

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

Essential criteria

• Teaching skills – to support development of others
• Research methodology skills
• IT skills incorporating all ‘Microsoft Office’ programmes and associated key board skills

Work Experience

Essential criteria

• Recent experience in a leadership role in pharmacy – At 8c level or equivalent. Experience with regulatory standards for pharmacy activities including GPhC registration & MHRA

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

Essential criteria

• Excellent Leadership & interpersonal skills to enable the postholder to develop positive working relationships with all groups of staff and key stakeholders across the Trust and wider local health economy
• Significant Negotiation skills for influencing senior internal & external stakeholders around performance delivery, service development and to ensure the needs of both the Trust and Pharmacy Services are met at a strategic level
• Business planning & forecasting skills
• Workforce planning skills to ensure workforce is appropriate to meet current and future service needs taking account of skills requirements, demographics and succession planning.
• Highly developed analytical and interpretation skills enabling informed judgements to be made on a wide range of highly complex and frequently changing information
• Multi-disciplinary team working requiring tact and diplomacy skills
• Auditing and analysis skills
• Presentation skills required for presenting to large and diverse groups of staff, executive directors, clinicians and service users

Personal Qualities/Special Circumstances

Essential criteria

• Excellent Oral & written communication
• Prioritisation & time management

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Will include some late night, weekend and bank holiday shifts)