Pharmacist Team Manager Unplanned Care | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 15 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £62,215 - £72,293 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 June 2025 |
| Location: | Stevenage, SG1 4AB |
| Company: | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7168543/361-7168543 |
Summary
We are recruiting for a Pharmacist Team Manager Unplanned Care who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
It is an energising time for us at the Trust, having just acquired Teaching status and working with VMI on our ENH Production System. The pharmacy department is working side by side with senior clinical and operational leads to improve our discharge processes and this post holder will be at the forefront of all the exciting development and will support implementation and change.
Being driven and adaptable are essential characteristics for this role as there is a unique opportunity to work within the senior pharmacy team to shape the future of the clinical pharmacy service at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
The successful candidate will direct the day-to-day functioning of the clinical pharmacy service to unplanned care, whilst as the same time work closely with the Pharmacist Manager – Planned Care (Surgery) to ensure the service is able to respond effectively to meet the needs of patients and key Trust stakeholders. A significant proportion of the role will involve strategic development of the unplanned care clinical pharmacy service, working with Pharmacist Manager – Clinical Services, senior nursing and clinical colleagues.
To act as the lead pharmacist for a defined area / directorate / aspect of pharmacy (in addition to above).
To plan, manage and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the unplanned care division in order to promote the safe, timely and cost-effective use of medicines.
To work with the Pharmacist Team Manager for Planned Care and support the Pharmacist Manager – Clinical Services & Digital Transformation and Deputy Chief Pharmacist to ensure robust clinical services are provided daily.
To act as Head of Department as required.
To line manage relevant directorate pharmacists within the unplanned division.
To be a Pharmacist Independent Prescriber within the Trust working in accordance with Trust Policy as approved by Therapeutics Policy Committee (TPC).
To carry out general dispensing and associated clinical and pharmaceutical duties and to assist with the provision of the pharmaceutical service to the trust.
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see attached Job Description for the main duties and responsibilities for this post and other relevant information
This advert closes on Thursday 29 May 2025