Associate Chief Pharmacist

Are you an experienced senior pharmacist looking to work at a CQC rated Outstanding organisation, whilst maintaining an excellent work: life balance (no on-call or weekends), and delivering high quality patient care Closer to Home?

Are you an inclusive, compassionate leader who wants to work at the forefront of service development, as part of various specialist multi-disciplinary teams?

Are you looking for a place to work where your talents shine and where people are put at the centre of everything we do?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and highly motivated leader to lead and shape a growing, dynamic pharmacy team, that is supporting several new and exciting services such as Virtual Wards covering specialities such as cardiology, respiratory, acute medicine, frailty, and End of Life, and our Discharge to Assess services.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate a track record of providing vision and excellent leadership to a pharmacy team.

Responsible for delivering, managing and developing
management of medicines within Lincolnshire Community Health
Services NHS Trust.

Includes Medicines Safety Officer (MSO) role
and lead role in Antimicrobial Stewardship for the Trust.

Lead on the development of a culture of continuous learning and
quality improvement, working closely to advise and guide service
managers.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagementin the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

Strategic lead for the development and modernisation of medicines management related services to meet the national and locally defined agenda and the identified health needs of the population.

To improve the quality of services and patient care provided
by all staff involved within medicines management and
prescribing related services.

To ensure and provide assurance to board that LCHS has
robust systems, processes and audit to govern the quality
agenda surrounding medical interventions to patients cared for
by LCHS Trust.

Accountability in relation to controlled drugs management, formulary management and audit, financial controls with respect to prescribing, audit of individual’s medical and non-medical prescribing activity,
incident investigation, medicines management issues with
regard to the infection prevention and control agenda, medicines safety, and public health.