Job Description
This is an exciting opportunity for a talented Pharmacy Technician wishing to gain a breadth of experience as an Operational lead in a high performing Foundation Trust. With the vision, insight and self-motivation to lead the pharmacy procurement, logistics and distribution team in the delivery of high quality care, you will be joining the team at an exciting time as we look to embed recent changes and further transform our ways of working.
You will gain access to extensive experience of pharmacy and wider acute hospital operations with support to develop further through a degree in Supply Chain Management or similar level Chartered Management Degree.
The post holder will be key to ensuring RUH maintains value for money with our medicines usage, and will closely support the Pharmacoeconomic agenda.
The Pharmacy Department has an MHRA wholesaler Dealers Authorisation (WDA) and this post holder will report to the Responsible Person (RP). Previous experience of working in a department with a MHRA WDA is desirable but not essential.
The successful candidate will be a role model, inspiring and giving direction to our teams across a range of pharmacy operations. You will have proven influencing and leadership skills with an ability to collaborate with staff and service users to achieve positive outcomes to benefit patients.
Key duties:
- To be responsible for the day to day management of the Operational Pharmacy services (procurement, stores and dispensaries) involved with medicines supply.
- To ensure operational delivery of Service Level Agreements related to wholesale with outside organisations
- To be responsible lead for medicines contract management
- To develop specialist pharmacy technical and assistant roles and functions within the Pharmacy service
- As a member of the Pharmacy Senior Leadership Team (SLT), to help lead and develop a strategic vision and delivery plan for the pharmacy department
- To contribute to the divisional bed and site management on a rota basis
Our collective aims are to promote a collaborative culture within pharmacy and with colleagues across the Trust, playing a significant part in ensuring pharmacy services develop strategically in line with the Trust's objectives, including cost improvements and budgetary management.
This post will also support clinical governance processes, such as incident reporting and investigation, complaint handling, development of guidelines, policies and procedures and the monitoring and evaluation of services
At the RUH we’re proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centered care we pride ourselves on.
We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.
A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.
We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool!
We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more information about the role
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