Deputy Lead Pharmacist in Banbury

Job Responsibilities

Communication and Key Working Relationships

• Act as one of the first points of contact for Pharmacy team members and partner agencies requesting pharmacy advice and support.
• Act as an ambassador of the pharmacy team, providing representation at management meetings or providing advice and guidance to senior managers/board level.
• Communicate with a range of different agencies including Integrated Care Board, GPs, medical staff, hospitals and tertiary sectors involved in patient care.

Education & Training

• Be the Pharmacist lead for training.
• Support the professional development and training of pharmacy staff, pre-registration trainees, and students.
• Deliver education sessions to multidisciplinary teams on medicines optimisation and safe prescribing.
• Act as a role model and mentor, promoting best practice in clinical and operational pharmacy.
• Provide personal development plans for individual team members where appropriate.
• Support team members to achieve expected standards of training and service delivery.
• Support individual team members' progress in alignment with the PML career framework for pharmacists.

Responsibility for Patient / Client Care

• Deliver specialist clinical pharmacy services in designated areas, ensuring evidence-based and patient-centred care.
• Promote safe, effective, and economical use of medicines, aligned with national and local formulary guidance.
• Provide expert advice to GPs, clinicians, nursing staff, and other healthcare professionals on all aspects of medicines use.

Policy, Service, Research & Development

• Follow Practice guidelines for pharmacy services.
• Propose and implement changes to policies and provide feedback on new/revised policies for their own area.
• Undertake surveys or audits, as necessary to support safety, compliance or business development specifically related to pharmacy service delivery.
• Support the development, implementation, and evaluation of new pharmacy-led services and clinical pathways.
• Contribute to digital transformation initiatives and the optimisation of electronic prescribing and medicines administration.
• Provide support to the centralisation of pharmacy services across PML.

Responsibility for Finance, Equipment & Other Resources

• Support team members with booking onto training and appropriate courses specific to their role.
• Support with ordering and stock control of equipment and resources to support all members of the pharmacy team.
• Ensure the suitability and serviceability of all equipment related to the pharmacy team, including FeNO testing machines.

Responsibility for Supervision, Leadership & Management

• Support the Lead Pharmacist in the operational and strategic management of pharmacy services.
• Provide leadership and supervision to pharmacists, technicians, and support staff within designated clinical or operational areas.
• Deputise for the Lead Pharmacist as required, ensuring continuity of service and decision making.
• Contribute to workforce planning, recruitment, and staff development, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Have a comprehensive understanding of the practice information systems and provide support to staff where necessary.

Governance & Quality Support

• Implement medicines management policies, audits, and risk management initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation, standards, and professional codes of practice.
• Lead or contribute to clinical governance, incident review, and service improvement programmes.
• Ensure GPhC standards are upheld across the pharmacy department.
• Promote effective and safe prescribing across the whole of PML.
• Ensure all clinical staff are aware of medicine warning alerts.
• Support with clinical audits around prescribing of medication and medicine safety to support QoF.

General Information

• Promote and maintain the safety of children by working according to the Practices Child Protection Policy and supporting guidance.
• Be pro-active and responsive to child protection concerns by early reporting, recording and referral of issues according to Practice arrangements.
• Attend child protection training that is appropriate to your role.

Confidentiality

• The post holder will maintain appropriate confidentiality of information relating to commercially sensitive matters in regard to Practice business, and also to personal information relating to members of staff and patients.
• The post holder will be expected to comply with all aspects of the Data Protection Act (2018), the Staff Code of Confidentiality and the IT Security and Acceptable Use Policy.

Equality & Diversity

• Banbury Cross Health Centre & Principal Medical LTD are committed to achieving equality of opportunity for all staff and for those who access services.
• You must work in accordance with equal opportunity policies/procedures and promote the equality and diversity agenda of the Practice.

Safeguarding

• All employees have a duty for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults.
• Staff must be aware of the Practices procedure for raising concerns about the welfare of anyone with whom they have contact.
• All staff must be compliant with L3 safeguarding.

Risk Management / Health and Safety

• Employees must be aware of the responsibilities placed on them for ensuring the safety of our patients, service users, visitors and colleagues under the Practices Risk Management Strategy and policy and under the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974.
• All employees are expected to be familiar with and comply with the Practices risk and health and safety policies and procedures and all other policies and procedures relevant to their role.

Records Management

• The post holder has responsibility for the timely and accurate creation, maintenance and storage of records in accordance with Practice policy, including email documents and with regard to the Data Protection Act, The Freedom of Information Act and any other relevant statutory requirements.

Clinical Governance

• The post holder will be expected to participate in clinical governance activities to assist the Practice to provide high quality services.

Policies & Procedures

• Practice employees are expected to follow Practice policies, procedures and guidance as well as professional standards and guidelines.
• Copies of Practice policies can be accessed via the staff intranet or TeamNet or via your manager.

Review of Job Description

• This job description is not an exhaustive list of duties, but is intended to give a general indication of the range of work undertaken within this new role.
• Work will vary in detail in the light of changing demands and priorities, and therefore the duties identified will be subject to periodic change/review, in consultation with the post holder.
• All employees have a responsibility to abide by all Practice Policies.