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Associate Director of Pharmacy- Medicines

1 month ago

Chester, United Kingdom Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Working Full time 37.5 hours per week

We are looking for a highly skilled, dynamic and passionate pharmacist to join our pharmacy senior leadership team specifically to lead the medicines optimisation agenda for the trust.

With a strong clinical background and expertise in medicines value and governance you will drive forward improvements in both quality and cost efficiency. You will utilise your excellent leadership skills to direct a well established and experienced team of senior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to deliver the safe, effective and cost efficient use of medicines across the trust, putting patients at the heart of all decision making.

This role is responsible for delivery of the medicines optimisation agenda throughout the trust, working in partnership with the pharmacy senior leadership team, clinical leaders across the trust and in collaboration with colleagues across the system and Cheshire and Mersey ICB. The key areas of responsibility include medicines value (including formulary management and high-cost drugs), homecare, antimicrobials, medicines information, medicines governance and safety.

The post holder will represent the department throughout the trust and the organisation at both system and regional level. Working closely with the senior pharmacy team and supporting the director of pharmacy and medicines optimisation they will be pivotal in setting the strategic direction of both medicines optimisation and pharmacy services in the organisation and leading on its delivery.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
**The Countess of Chester Hospital**: providing 438 general and acute beds.

**Ellesmere Port Hospital**: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.

**Tarporley War Memorial Hospital**: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

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