Clinical Pharmacy Manager

7 days ago


Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced pharmacist to lead the development of our inpatient pharmacy services across the Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.

Key Responsibilities
  • Take operational responsibility for the safe, secure, effective provision, management and strategic direction of all inpatient medicines management services across the Trust.
  • Manage the lead clinical pharmacists for inpatient services in the East, North and West Kent locality and support the Advanced CMHT Lead Pharmacist by managing two CMHT Lead Pharmacists.
  • Ensure a high-quality, clinical pharmacy service is delivered to inpatients and their carers within the Trust.
  • Provide professional pharmaceutical leadership and expert advice on all matters relating to prescribing and medicine management services to the Chief Pharmacist, Deputy Chief Pharmacist, Medicines Management team, individual services and clinicians.
  • Promote seamless and integrated care for patients with mental health conditions, supporting the transition of patients across inpatient and community services so they receive the required level of care to support them in taking their medication safely.
  • Support the management of shared care, ensuring patients are being monitored and reviewed in line with best practice, evidence and guidance.
  • Be responsible for policy implementation and staff development relating to medicines management across all the inpatient sites in Kent.
  • Represent pharmacy at local governance meetings, including writing medicine management reports for the Drug & Therapeutic (D&T) group and the Clinical Effectiveness and Outcome Group (CEOG) meetings.
  • Publish the bimonthly "Medication Matters" newsletter to all staff across the trust, sharing insights on medication-related alerts and errors, and updating staff on new policies and procedures.
  • Lead the setup of the pharmacist on-call rota and participate in the clinical on-call pharmacist service as needed.
Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

  • Master's Degree in Pharmacy
  • Post graduate qualification in Clinical Pharmacy
  • Post graduate qualification in leadership or management
  • Non-Medical Prescribing qualification
  • Member of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy
  • Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council, with at least 5 year's post graduate experience

Desirable

  • Practice Supervisor Qualification
  • Postgraduate qualification in Psychopharmacology
  • Working towards being a Designated Prescribing Practitioner

Years experience

Essential

  • 3 years experience of working in Mental Health services
  • Knowledge and understanding of implications of Clinical Governance
  • Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary settings
  • Record of achieving results against set targets
  • Experience of service review and design
  • Experience of strategic planning
  • Experience of managing staff

Desirable

  • Experience of budget setting and management of drugs budgets

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

  • Good written and verbal communication skills
  • High level of analytical skills and problem solving ability, to ensure that the post holder is able to provide advice on complex issues relating to medicine management and Trust policies.
  • Knowledge and experience of Primary and Secondary Care working
  • Confident and assertive when dealing with other professionals
  • High level of Interpersonal skills, to ensure that the post holder is able to effectively exchange highly complex and sensitive information with patients and relatives, prescribers and senior managers
  • IT skills - word-processing, PowerPoint, Excel, statistical package and internet use, so that the post holder can communicate effectively with other Health care professionals and for training purposes.
  • Up to date knowledge of prescribing issues in Mental Health

Desirable

  • Good project management skills


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