Head of Leeds Medicines Advisory Service (XR10)
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 16 Mawrth 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | £79,504.00 i £91,609.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £79504.00 - £91609.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 06 Ebrill 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Leeds, LS1 3EX |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9298-MMP-486 |
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Leadership, Management and Service Planning 1. Provide leadership in the development of a culture that encourages education, research and service development across all areas of the pharmacy including Medicines Advisory Services (MAS) in order to secure continuous improvement to overall pharmacy service and the introduction of innovative service developments. 2. Provide enthusiastic and motivated leadership and strategic direction for the Leeds MAS, in line with the pharmacy and Trust strategy, 3. Work with of the national UKMI group and contribute to strategy development. 4. Develop and maintain relationships with key users in order to gather intelligence about their changing needs. Ensure that users are updated on changes in information and technology and the implications for delivering an MAS to them. Identify needs for new or extended MAS services 5. Lead the development of, and be responsible for the management, evaluation and financial monitoring of Service Level Agreements (SLAs), where appropriate. Prepare and present reports to organisations and partners in respect of SLAs. 6. Provide pharmaceutical professional leadership and be responsible for maintenance and development of the MAS and policy implementation, ensuring that funding is secured for service developments through business cases and negotiation with relevant stakeholders 7. Collaborate with stakeholders within pharmacy, CSUs and Trust to support the effective delivery and provision of the Pharmacy Services and achievement of the Pharmacy Business Plan and Medicine Management Strategy and the Trust Objectives. 8. Develop an accessible service responsive to patients, practitioners and users needs. Identify and manage change in MAS required as a result of the rapidly changing NHS environment 9. To continuously review skill mix and workforce development within the department and in collaboration across pharmacy services Identify, pursue and develop potential income generating initiatives. 10. Be responsible for economic resource and equipment purchasing 11. Ensure that advice and information concerning the use of medicines, provided by the MAS, meets all legal and statutory controls. 12. Develop indicators of service quality, volume and cost. 13. Implement, develop and maintain all necessary systems used to record, collate, retrieve, store, disseminate and evaluate information in MI service. 14. Develop innovative ways of communicating and disseminating medicines information through development and maintenance of systems using the intranet and internet. 15. Ensure staff receive adequate training, and have an appropriate level and range of skills, confidence and resources to deliver all the components of the MAS 16. Ensure risk management systems are in place Ensure that the quality and timeliness of information and advice provided by the department meets local and national standards within financial constraints, and that the users satisfaction within the service is audited against agreed standards and highlighted issues are addressed. 17. Be responsible for ensuring that the legal and statutory requirements in relation to medicines and all aspects of the MAS are met and ensure that the delivery of pharmaceutical care to patients and customers in the defined areas meets both national and local Hospital pharmacy standards. 18. Be responsible for the continual review of pharmaceutical service provision to a range of specialties, CSUs or Trust wide. Where necessary, plan and implement changes to ensure that future service development needs are met. 19. Proactively manage a risk register for MAS and the MMPS CSU in accordance with Trust policy. 20. Ensure that physical requirements of staff and service meet Health and Safety and Occupational Health Regulations and that where requires; bids for new space, furniture or equipment are submitted. National & Regional Activity 1. Develop the role of the specialist medicines advisory roles across the full breadth of services and ensure links maintained and developed with appropriate national networks and bodies e.g. UKMI Exec, UKCPA, GHP 2. Represent Leeds at National Medicines Information, Medication Safety Officer, Medicines Commissioning and Holistic Healthcare networks as appropriate. 3. Develop and Lead MAS team members to develop their own leadership potential through regional and national activities 4. Liaise and coordinate negotiations with relevant bodies such as NHS England, MHRA, CCGs, General Practitioners, Community Pharmacy representatives and others as required. 5. Develop MAS, Medicines Information, Medication Safety Officer and Medical Devices Safety Officer Networks and joint initiatives with other local providers to facilitate shared objective development, across the current NHS geography. Service Activity 1. Lead the development of service standards/ and performance criteria Deliver the MAS to an agreed level of quality and timeliness within the legal framework, local and national standards and financial constraints, providing specialist information and expert opinion, to practitioners both within and outside pharmacy and Trust to ensure the safe and cost-effective delivery of drug therapy to influence and support patient care. 2. Deal with highly complex, often sensitive or contentious, urgent and non-urgent clinical and managerial issues which required the pharmacist to gather, record, analyse and interpret data and information in order to create and compare options and formulate a response, based on a range of sources. In some cases, information will be lacking, incomplete, possibly biased and/or misleading or information sources may not be in agreement. In these situations, it may be necessary to use professional judgement to deliver a helpful, accurate, up to date answer or find a novel solution to an unusual clinical or managerial situation. The pharmacist will use negotiating and persuasive skills when interacting with other clinical team members, colleagues, hospital managers, patients and relatives who may challenge their advice. 3. Demonstrate the ability to provide safe, clinically effective and cost-effective use of medicines in accordance with Trust policy, standard operating procedures and medicine legislation. This will include prescription review, advising on appropriate dosage, side effects and on the safe administration and storage of medicines. In specialist services this may occur for a group of defined patients as well as individuals. The post holder is expected to determine how the outcomes are best achieved in specific circumstance. 4. Responsible for maintaining appropriate data entry records and storage of information of dispensing, clinical and MAS specialist information in line with standard operating procedures Play a key role in the investigation of medicine related incidents and agreement of action plans and coordinate local response to national alert mechanisms 5. Lead and oversee the development of Trust Medicines Management Policies 6. Analyse and provide detailed information regarding drug use and financial data for stakeholders to influence external decision making. Education and Training and Research and Development 1. Ensure that Medicines Advisory Service training is encompassed in the departmental training plan. 2. Lead teaching sessions and workshops, as relevant to professional and clinical expertise. These will be in-house, external and as part of the linked teaching programme with academic associates (e.g. University of Leeds and University of Bradford). 3. Promote research activities of individuals The post holder will undertake and publish practice research and enable team members to do likewise. 4. Bid for funding and resources to support research, development and audit, technology, information provision and training. Human Resources 1. Be responsible for individual and team performance through the setting of agreed objectives linked to the Trust and Pharmacy business plan objectives. Following induction of staff, work with them to develop their PDPs supported through performance review systems. Also responsible for sickness, disciplinary and grievance matters and recruitment strategies including undertaking skill mix reviews and succession planning. 2. Ensure that all staff working in MAS are motivated and developed as a team to do their best to achieve their professional and personal goals, to contribute towards the Pharmacy business plan and help them to develop their skills and knowledge and ultimately their career direction. 3. Authorise salaries and wages documentation including management of ESR. 4. Ensure good HR practices required through investors in People, Improving Working Lives and Equality and Diversity are applied and that Trust policies are followed. Other 1. The post holder will be committed to the concepts of continuing professional development and lifelong learning. 2. Work agreed sessions in a dispensary area and providing a full range of dispensing services. 3. Provide pharmacy and weekend working and participate in the pharmacy out of hours working arrangements to the frequency as contractually agreed.