Deputy Superintendent Pharmacist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 11 Chwefror 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | £64,455.00 i £74,896.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £64455.00 - £74896.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 01 Ebrill 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Stockton On Tees, TS19 8PE |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9345-26-0078 |
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Core Functions: Key Results and deliverables: Deputise for the Superintendent Pharmacist with full delegated authority, representing the service at senior management, governance and operational forums and taking active decisions in the best interests of the service, its staff and its service users Lead the delivery and ongoing development of outpatient pharmacy services, ensuring performance, quality and safety standards are consistently achieved. Exercise professional judgement in complex and non-routine situations, taking decisions that materially impact service delivery, patient safety and regulatory compliance. Exercise delegated accountability for outpatient pharmacy budgets, including expenditure control, financial forecasting and delivery of agreed efficiency and medicines optimisation plans. Accountable for the delivery of waste reduction, medicines optimisation and cost-improvement initiatives in support of service sustainability. Provide assurance to senior management on pharmacy governance, risk, quality and performance. Take responsibility to ensure that the pharmacy maintains high professional standards, both dispensing and retail, to provide a safe working and patient environment at all times Record and investigate dispensing errors and near misses and take appropriate action to minimise further risk or incidents Record and deal appropriately with customer complaints, escalating complaints to the Superintendent Pharmacist only in exceptional circumstances. Ensure confidentiality of customer and company information Provide accurate advice and information to service users including hospital staff promptly and effectively. Build and maintain long lasting relationships with hospital staff to establish positive business relationships. Administrative Responsibilities: Ensure timely, accurate and complaint completion of all pharmacy documentation in line with local policies, standard operating procedures and regulatory requirements. Maintain oversight of pharmacy information systems, ensuring data integrity, confidentiality and appropriate use Clinical Responsibilities: Act as Responsible Pharmacist ensuring the safe and effective operation of the pharmacy Ensure all prescriptions are checked for clinical and legal accuracy, and appropriately endorsed according to local procedures and protocols Accuracy check dispensed prescriptions accurately in line with approved local standard operating procedures Offer relevant and professional counselling and advice to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals to ensure they have safe and optimum benefit from their medicines. Seek feedback from customers to understand their experiences and inform development of service Promote safe, effective and optimal use of medicines across outpatient services Management and Leadership Responsibilities: Leads and directs the day-to-day management of the outpatient pharmacy service, making independent decisions in complex and non-routine situations that materially impact patient safety, service performance and regulatory compliance. Deputise in the absence of Superintendent Pharmacist; including attendance at key meetings, making decisions central to service delivery and participating in the formulation of service developments Provide senior leadership to the outpatient pharmacy workforce, promoting a culture of safety, professionalism, accountability and continuous improvement. Line manage senior pharmacy staff, including performance management, appraisal and development planning Lead workforce planning, skill-mix optimisation and succession planning to ensure service resilience Manage complex people and performance issues in accordance with Trust and subsidiary workforce policies. Champion the Trust improvement and leadership strategy, through attendance at New and Aspiring Leaders and Foundation Quality Improvement training Policy and Service Development and Audit Responsibilities: Lead the development, review and implementation of pharmacy policies, procedures and standard operating procedures Identify opportunities to improve the pharmacy environment to drive efficiency and patient safety Determine/interpret the relevance to outpatients pharmacy of new and existing trust policy, procedure and guidance and to ensure awareness and implementation in outpatients pharmacy operational services, providing guidance to other pharmacy staff as necessary. Ensure local implementation of trust-wide and national policy relevant to outpatient pharmacy services Routinely liaise with service users particularly addressing unmet needs and trust priorities, and propose solutions to problems and, if necessary, implement them Lead investigation and resolution of incidents, errors, complaints and near misses, ensuring learning and improvement actions are embedded Undertake and oversee audits, data collection and quality improvement initiatives to enhance service delivery and patient safety. Champion and lead quality improvement initiatives across your immediate team and within your service, contributing to the Trust Quality Improvement programme Managing Resources Responsibilities: Exercise delegated responsibility for outpatient pharmacy budgets, expenditure monitoring and financial forecasting Lead the recruitment and selection of technical and support staff working within outpatients pharmacy. To include contributing to writing of job descriptions, personal specifications and advertisements; short listing and interviewing Lead medicines optimisation initiatives, waste reduction and cost-effectiveness programmes Compose business cases, service developments and investment decisions affecting outpatient pharmacy services Undertake performance development reviews for technical and support staff working in outpatients pharmacy. To develop training plans and ensure that staff development needs are met. Education and Training: Drive performance of colleagues by setting up appropriate stretching performance and behavioural objectives To train and support new and junior staff effectively to develop capability and drive operational excellence To keep up to date with relevant clinical and professional knowledge, contribute and participate in education and training events for pharmacy staff within the business. Support colleagues to be proactive team players by sharing knowledge and skills. Be a supportive mentor and coach to the pharmacy team Make decisions which positively affect the performance of the pharmacy Take personal responsibility for your own development in line with personal development needs Take personal responsibility to undertake continuing professional development and revalidation as per GPhC requirements To comply with the code of ethics for responsible pharmacist and registered premises as set by the GPhC. Keep professionally up to date at all times and also actively aware of trust-wide messages, issues and trends The post holder will have a personal professional development plan and identify training needs as required to their line manage