Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: King's College Hospital

Town: London

Salary: £82,462 - £93,773 Per annum incl HCA

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 30/10/2024 23:59

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.7 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

Job overview

The Pharmacy general manager role is a full time position accountable directly to the Chief Pharmacist. The post holder will be accountable in conjunction with the Chief pharmacist for cost effective patient care through the delivery of high quality pharmacy services within budget constraints. They will support implementation and management of systems and processes to ensure all pharmacy services are delivered in accordance with care group, site and trust objectives and policies. They will provide strong leadership to enable the service to respond effectively to the challenges it will face whilst providing efficient services and sustained improvements.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will also be responsible for the operational management of both the pharmacy admin and clerical staff and the Homecare pharmacy administrative team ensuring that national standards and governance arrangements are in place for all medicines supplied via this route. The post holder will also be directly responsible for overseeing and managing pharmacy contracts and service level agreements. This includes advising management and supervising the implementation of contracts for optimal efficiency and benefits. The post holder is expected to cross cover and work at all sites provided by the Trust where care group services are provided and will also be part of the care group site lead rosters.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Leadership & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

· As part of the care group management team to provide leadership to the care group staff, ensuring clear communication of Trust vision, priorities and expectations to ensure the engagement of teams to deliver services of the highest quality.

· Responsible for overseeing and managing pharmacy contracts and service level agreements e.g. domestic service provision such as cleaning and KFM outpatient pharmacy and porter contract. This includes advising management and supervising the implementation of contracts for optimal efficiency and benefits.

· Responsible for the operational management of the Homecare pharmacy administrative team ensuring that national standards and governance arrangements are in place for all medicines supplied via this route.

· Role model positive leadership behaviours by living the Trust’s values and visibly leading on promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of the job role.

· Responsible for managing the complex nature of the business area, ensuring that the appropriate strategic plans are delivered within the relevant operating framework.

· In conjunction with the chief pharmacist develop and deliver the strategy and performance management of care group services.

· Responsible, with the chief pharmacist, for the development and delivery of capacity plans to ensure that the Trust achieves the NHS constitutional targets relevant to the care group.

· Exercising delegated authority on behalf of the chief pharmacist, the post holder will provide leadership to resolve day-to-day management issues within the care group.

· Holding care group management team members to account for delivery of their objectives through regular performance review meetings.

· Provide a professional, senior management contribution across the Care Group, working in partnership with the Head of Nursing and Clinical Director and others to deliver cost-efficient, high quality and responsive services.

· Ensuring sufficient data availability within the care group to monitor and track performance and to satisfy reporting requirements.

· Have a high-profile role in the development of the care group working with internal and external partners.

· Lead on and deliver a number of key care group strategic and operational programmes.

· Providing appropriate input and challenge to clinical and business plans where necessary.

· To deputise for the chief pharmacist or care group management team as required.

· Complete ad hoc tasks and projects at the request of the Chief Pharmacist or Deputy Chief Pharmacist Operations.

· Actively participate in, and co-ordinate, the pharmacy site lead rota.

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Master’s degree in pharmacy, healthcare or management
First Degree and/or equivalent senior management experience
Evidence of maintaining continuous professional development
Prince 2 or other Project management experience
Registered healthcare professional e.g. GPhC, AHP, RN etc

Experience

Significant management experience in a senior role within the acute sector in particular operational management
Experience of managing strategic and operational performance in achieving key targets
Proven record of financial management at senior level, delivering on complex and large budgets including reducing costs, monitoring and determining corrective action.
Successful delivery of cost improvement programmes

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All staff have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and for ensuring they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
Due to a high volume of applications, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. It is therefore recommended that you apply promptly

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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