Pharmacy Manager

At Nuffield Health, the UK’s largest healthcare charity, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, and your drive to make a difference. Whether it’s driving connected health, helping the nation, transforming experiences, or building the career you want – we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and advice on medicines management to ensure that processes across all clinical departments throughout the hospital are safe, cost‑effective, and legal, supported by up‑to‑date policies, procedures, and guidelines. This will include chairing the Medicines Management Forum on a quarterly basis.
• Be responsible for leading, motivating, and effectively managing the pharmacy team by providing excellent leadership.
• Act as the Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead, optimising the management of antimicrobials to minimise the occurrence of hospital‑acquired infections by ensuring pharmacy adherence to up‑to‑date policies, guidelines, and systems of work; undertake regular audit in conjunction with the IP nurse/nurse team.
• Ensure the pharmacy team undertakes daily ward rounds, reconciling medication for new inpatients; counselling patients; managing PODs and checking for relevant allergies, adverse drug reactions, and contraindications to treatment, ensuring all medicines prescribed are clinically appropriate in line with national and/or local policies and guidelines.
• Assist and lead the team in facilitating timely and informed discharge of patients returning to primary care by dispensing, accuracy checking and clinically checking TTOs, counselling patients prior to discharge.
• Lead on the implementation of medication safety alerts and drug recalls for the hospital, working closely with the Director of Clinical Services.
• Implement and monitor DoH guidance on all aspects of controlled drugs use in the hospital and ensure the CD audit is completed quarterly.
• Ensure errors, complaints and incidents are managed in line with the Nuffield Health guidelines, specifically reporting these using the RADAR system and reviewing/investigating relevant RADAR reports relating to medicines.
• Support the development of other healthcare professionals and deliver medicines‑focused training upon request.

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Essential experience of working in a clinical setting as a Pharmacist.
• Leadership / managerial experience in a Pharmacy setting.
• Ability to share evidence‑based practices with colleagues to enhance service and standards.
• The ability to make decisions and use initiative.
• Strong communication skills.
• Passion to deliver excellent care in a rewarding and emotionally challenging environment.

Benefits

• Fit‑bit style rewards: free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts, and pension options.
• Other benefits include access to onsite radiology, pathology, pharmacy, physiotherapy, hydrotherapy, and multiple operating theatres.

Location

Wessex Hospital, a stunning 46‑bedded private hospital in West Hampshire with specialisms in Orthopaedics, Ophthalmology, Urology, Women’s Health, and Spinal surgery. The hospital also benefits from onsite radiology, pathology, pharmacy, physiotherapy, and hydrotherapy, providing a full package of care for patients.

Application Process

Applications will be considered as they are received, and interviews will be arranged accordingly. We reserve the right to close adverts early if required.