Team Leader for pharmacy in the Surgical Directorate of IHC East at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, offered as a fixed-term secondment until February 2027. It centres on leading a clinical pharmacy service and its team, with a strategic remit for safe medicines use. It stands out for drugs and therapeutics committee representation, links to clinical networks across the health board, and a Welsh-language preference open to English speakers. Applicants need their current line manager's permission before applying.
What the job involves
- Lead, develop and implement a high-quality clinical pharmacy service as part of the Surgical Directorate's multidisciplinary leadership team
- Develop a strategic vision and roadmap for pharmacy services in the directorate, drawing on the wider pharmacy team's skills
- Lead and manage the pharmacy clinical team in the division
- Ensure the safe and effective use of medicines within the Surgical Directorate
- Represent surgery on the drugs and therapeutics committee and policies and procedures group, and other groups as required
- Act as link pharmacist to relevant clinical networks across the health board
- Work with lead pharmacists across emergency care, medicine, community services, primary care, mental health and safe medication practice to deliver the clinical strategy
What’s required
Qualifications
- Masters degree or equivalent in pharmacy
- Postgraduate diploma or MSc in a relevant pharmacy area, or equivalent documented experience in that area
Registration & licences
- Registered pharmacist with the GPhC
Experience
- Substantive post-qualification experience in primary or secondary care
- Experience of providing specialist pharmacy services
- Responsibility for performance management within pharmacy
- Experience of success in service development
- Experience of working effectively in a multidisciplinary environment
- Experience of writing and implementing business plans
Skills & knowledge
- Evidence of leadership skills, and of influencing and negotiating within the service and with external stakeholders
- Good communicator who is motivated and able to work as part of a team
- Ability to build excellent working relationships with individuals and partner organisations
Other
- Participation in on-call as appropriate to the individual or service
- Participation in extended hours, weekend and public holiday pharmacy services
Nice to have
- Practising member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Management qualification or equivalent experience, including NHS pharmacy management of staff and budgets
- Teaching or assessing qualification
- Independent or supplementary prescriber
- MSc in advanced clinical practice or RPS credentialing at core advanced level
- Knowledge of mental health and community pharmacy services, and service development across primary and secondary care
- Experience of managing conflicting priorities within tight budgets or time constraints
- Ability to speak Welsh
What’s offered
- Support to develop clinical, leadership, managerial, research and strategic skills
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