Associate Chief Pharmacist

Job overview

This is a senior leadership opportunity for an experienced pharmacist to join the Trust as Associate Chief Pharmacist.

The post holder will provide Trust-wide professional leadership for pharmacy services and play a key role in driving service transformation, operational effectiveness and medicines optimisation. The role is cross-cutting, operating across clinical, operational and corporate functions to ensure consistent, high-quality and safe medicines practice.

Working in close partnership with the Chief Pharmacist, Trust Medication Safety Officer and IUC leads, the post holder will contribute to the strategic development and delivery of pharmacy services, supporting organisational priorities, regulatory compliance and patient safety objectives.

The role requires credible senior leadership, the ability to influence at pace, and a strong focus on governance, performance and continuous improvement. The post holder will act as a role model for the pharmacy workforce and ensure that the delivery of services are aligned with corporate objectives and system-wide priorities.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will provide expert leadership, working across Pharmacy in 999 and 111 and will play a critical role in developing a pan-London Integrated Urgent Care strategy for medicines services, setting standards and guidelines for prescribing and medicines use practice, in keeping with the GPhC, MHRA, CQC and national policy documents and guidance.
• Provision of clinical leadership and support to the wider organisation
• Provision of  expert input to clinical developments within the Trust.
• Work closely with stakeholders implementing and delivering NHS111 and IUC
• Foster an open and transparent culture where people are willing to report and learn from incidents and near misses
• Support the Clinical Directorate and senior IUC Management Team in the strategic development of educational programmes.
• Provision of expert clinical guidance in end-to-end reviews
• Strengthen the pharmacist contribution to patients requiring IUC in all settings and exercising a high level of professional autonomy as benefits an expert practitioner in the field of integrated urgent care.
• The post holder will be expected to work on-site and travel across the Trust and to external meetings when required.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please review the attached job description and personal specification which provides the full list of roles and responsibilities.