Director of Pharmacy

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main responsibilities will be:
• To develop and maintain high quality clinical pharmacy services in line with best practice in order to ensure optimal use of medicines within the Trust.
• Co-ordination, manage and monitor performance in relation to all outsourced and satellite services providing SACT and associated services to Christie Trust patients, including (but not limited to) Christie Trust satellite services across the Cancer Network (Christie@ locations and those provided under Service Level Agreement by neighbouring NHS Trusts)
• Work with divisional operations manager to understand prescribing practice. Monitors monthly drug expenditure across the Trust. Evaluates financial, contracting and infra-structure implications of these changes. Produces ad hoc papers, reports for Director of Finance/ commissioners as requested.
• Assess Research & Development implications of all clinical trials on the Trust medicines budget plus their impact on pharmacy and other services.
• Ensuring the Trust maintains a high oncology pharmacy profile commensurate with its standing as one of the leading cancer centres in UK and Western Europe by submission of posters, articles for publication, attendance at national meetings/committees
Pharmacy Services

a. To manage all operational and strategic aspects of the Pharmacy department, reporting to the Divisional Medical Director and liaising with the Divisional Operational Management team.

b. To work collaboratively as a member of the NWS Management Team to achieve Trust and divisional objectives.

c. To ensure the provision of a high quality, cost-effective pharmacy service.

d. To develop and maintain high quality clinical pharmacy services in line with best practice in order to ensure optimal use of medicines within the Trust.

e. To report pharmacy services in Divisional Service and Management Team meetings.

f. To work across the Trust with clinical units to enhance clinical service provision.

g. To undertake service development and planning including the drawing up of terms of reference, outline business cases, business plans and other development plans. Organising and leading project teams where appropriate.

h. To be responsible for quality management and ensuring that the department meets all external and internal quality standards; acting as the designated Lead Pharmacist in respect of external reviews and accreditations.

i. To manage and co-ordinate pharmacy services across the Trust providing support to the clinical research programme of the Trust; supporting the set up of international studies as well as local research interests.

j. To provide leadership for all practice research, audit and clinical research conducted within the pharmacy department.

k. To provide accurate information on the resource implications of all research projects in or involving the pharmacy.

l. To be responsible for the line management of senior pharmacy staff including planning, development, appraisal, recruitment and disciplinary issues.

m. To have delegated responsibility for the management of pharmacy and medicines pay and non-pay budgets.

n. Operational responsibility for strategic development and service delivery.

o. To be responsible for ensuring that the policies and procedures of the department are compatible with and reflect the strategy and policies of the Trust as determined by the Management Board and the Directors.

p. To work with the trust partners in providing guidance and professional support where necessary

q. To represent the Trust in national and regional meetings as appropriate.

r. To ensure most cost-effective access to medicines across the trust.

Outsourced and satellite services

a. Responsible for the co-ordination, management and monitoring of performance in relation to all outsourced and satellite services providing SACT and associated services to Christie Trust patients, including (but not limited to)

i. Christie Trust satellite services across the Cancer Network (Christie@ locations and those provided under Service Level Agreement by neighbouring NHS Trusts)

ii. Aseptic compounding of SACT to commercial provider(s)

iii. Aseptic compounding of parenteral nutrition to commercial provider(s)

iv. Commercial Homecare medicines delivery services

Medicines Management & Medicines Optimisation

a. Corporate responsibility for Medicines Management strategy and policy development.

b. To undertake the statutory role of Accountable Officer for Controlled Drugs

c. To be responsible for ensuring compliance with all current standards for Medicines Management and for the clinical and cost-effective use of medicines within the Trust.

d. To manage and update the Medicines Management policy, Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment (SACT) Guidelines and other medicines related policies for the Trust.

e. To advise the Divisional Managers and the Medical Director on the drugs budget, and to assist them in ensuring that the clinical units keep within their budgetary allocation.

f. To be responsible for all medicines procurement for the Trust ensuring best value whilst maintaining high quality standards.

g. To be responsible for the supply and quality of medical gases used within the Trust.

h. Inform and provide relevant papers to the Risk and Quality Governance Committee to fulfil Trust obligations relating to safe medicines practice, risk management etc. Reviews clinical incidents, near misses within pharmacy to minimise recurrence

i. To lead corporate medicines budget planning for the Trust supporting Divisional General Managers in budget planning.

j. To lead the Trust on medicine-related risk management issues; utilising root cause analysis techniques in order to identify causes of medicine-related errors, formulate solutions and implement process changes.

k. To lead the development of Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration for the Trust.

l. To sit as a member of:

The Drug and Therapeutics Committee (DTC, Deputy Chair)

Safe Medicines Practice Committee (SMPC, Chair)

Clinical Research Effectiveness Committee (CREC)

Patient Safety Committee (PSC)

Risk and Quality Governance Committee (R&QGC)

m. To coordinate the Drugs and Therapeutics Committee (DTC) and support the DTC Chair.

n. To represent the interests of the Trust at external meetings as required.

o. To prepare for and participate in Peer Review and other external quality assessments.

p. To represent the Trust on national committees consistent with the national profile of the post.

q. To contribute to national consultation exercises, such as NICE, consistent with the national profile of the post.

r. To work closely with the Pharmacy department at The university of Manchester developing joint strategies for pharmacy education and oncology pharmacy practice research.

Financial

a. Works with divisional operations manager to understand prescribing practice. Monitors monthly drug expenditure across the Trust. Evaluates financial, contracting and infra-structure implications of these changes. Produces ad hoc papers, reports for Director of Finance/ commissioners as requested.

b. Provides clinical advice and works with the procurement lead to ensure work is directed at high-cost prescribing areas where maximal financial savings may be made to the drugs budget to help achieve Trust financial targets.

Research & Development

a. Assesses Research & Development implications of all clinical trials on the Trust medicines budget plus their impact on pharmacy and other services.

b. Provides professional advice to the radiopharmacy department in relation to the pharmaceutical aspects of radioisotopes and clinical trials, plus professionally responsible for providing general medicines advice to the radiopharmacy (as per Technical Service Level Agreement).

c. Instigates and undertakes R&D on relevant topics of pharmacy practice.

d. Support and ensure effective pharmacy support for trust clinical trial provision and few aspirations

Additional

a. Responsible for ensuring the Trust maintains a high oncology pharmacy profile commensurate with its standing as one of the leading cancer centres in UK and Western Europe by submission of posters, articles for publication, attendance at national meetings/committees.

b. Networking and benchmarking with other cancer centres on medicines management and prescribing issues to ensure sharing of best practice and highest standards of medicines management are maintained.

c. Interpret NHS England documents for implementation into pharmacy practice to improve and modernise service. Conceives and implements changes to department's working where this will result in improved service.

d. Responsible for health and safety, risk register maintenance and associated action. Responsible for ensuring service audit, controls assurance and the medicines management portfolio.

e. Overall responsibility for formal training and development programmes.

f. Responsible for recruitment and retention of staff, workforce planning and skill mix changes on an ongoing basis. Undertake appraisals of key staff.

g. Medicines orders to a maximum value according to Trust standing financial instructions

h. Required to participate in the Trust Executive on call rota

The Christie Pharmacy Company.

To be a board member of The Christie Pharmacy Company Limited.

To support the board in all its activities and, in particular, to act as Pharmacy Director and Chief Operations Officer for the company.

To ensure that the company meets all legal and regulatory requirements as defined by UK and European legislation.

To be the line manager for the superintendent pharmacist.

NOTE. The Director of pharmacy is an employee of The Christie NHS Foundation trust, and the duties as director of the pharmacy company are part of this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy
• 1 year pre-registration training
• Membership of General Pharmaceutical Council
• Postgraduate clinical qualification or relevant experience
• Postgraduate oncology qualification or relevant experience
• Postgraduate management qualification or relevant experience
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience

Essential criteria

• Post registration hospital experience, including several years as team leader for a pharmacy service
• Evidence of working closely with clinicians and senior managers
• Evidence of successful change management in a complex organisation
• Proven ability to manage financial and human resources effectively
• Performance management and development of staff.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Well developed leadership and motivational skills
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Self motivating with lots of drive for service development
• Well developed negotiating and influencing skills
• Evidence of sound judgement and insight
• Ability to work under pressure, highly organised and developed time management skills
• Computer literate

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Medicines Act, Controlled Drug Regulations, National Cancer Standards, NICE
• Medicines management
• Aseptic services
• National intrathecal guidance
• Clinical trials legislation, IMPs
• New drug developments and practices in oncology

Desirable criteria

• R&D; Service modernisation

Other

Essential criteria

• Required to work unsocial hours (on a rota basis with other team members), including evenings, weekends, Bank Holidays and on-call
• Required to work at any site that treats Christie patients across the local cancer network

The closing date for this post may be extended if there are insufficient applicants or brought forward if there is a high volume of applicants.

Application Information - If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, I regret that on this occasion your application will have been unsuccessful.

Sponsorship Information - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

Pre-Employment Checks - To confirm your suitability for the role, we will carry out pre-employment checks in line with NHS Employment Check Standards. These include:

• Identity verification
• Right to work check
• Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role, payment of this will be the applicants responsibility)
• Professional registration and/or qualification check
• Occupational health assessment
• Employment history and reference validation

All applicants external to The Christie NHS Foundation Trust will be required to provide their HMRC employment history to cover the most recent three years employment. This information will used to validate employment history and references.

If you require sponsorship, we will assess your eligibility based on current government guidance. If the role is not eligible and you cannot demonstrate your right to work, your conditional offer may be withdrawn.

If You're Offered the Role - you will be agreeing to The Christie NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.

The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and will form part of the recruitment process. In the event that you are successful following interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable will be transferred from your current / most recent employer.

Sponsorship Information - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

No Smoking Policy - You should be aware the Trust operates a No Smoking Policy and therefore employees are not permitted to smoke at work.

Additional Information - We want to ensure that everyone who works at the Christie or uses our services is welcomed, valued and treated with dignity and respect. The Christie values diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for all and fair representation across the organisation at all levels. In support of these commitments, we particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority people and people with disabilities for this post. Appointment will be only on merit.

We are committed to creating a balanced and diverse workforce. As such we welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Together we will foster inclusion and tackle inequity and health inequalities in cancer care.

As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust is committed to the highest standards of ethical conduct and integrity in all our activities. We have a zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery in any of its forms, including slavery, servitude, forced or compulsory labour, and human trafficking. We are fully committed to acting ethically and with transparency in all our business dealings and relationships, and to implementing and enforcing effective systems and controls to ensure modern slavery is not taking place anywhere in our organisation or supply chains.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job Description & Person Specification (PDF, 782.3KB)
• Pharmacy Booklet (PDF, 887.2KB)
• The Christie Values and Behaviours (PDF, 919.5KB)
• Strategy Brochure (PDF, 1.0MB)
• Travel to The Christie (PDF, 3.8MB)