Deputy Director of Pharmacy - Band 8D

at  North Bristol NHS Trust

Are you looking for the next step into more senior pharmacy management role?
Are you an aspiring Chief Pharmacist?
Due to a restructure within the department’s senior leadership team, an exciting opportunity has arisen to become our Deputy Director of Pharmacy.
As the Deputy Director you will have your own portfolio of work as well as deputising for the Director of Pharmacy when they are unavailable.
To learn more about working in Pharmacy at NBT, click here to watch our video.
Your main responsibilities will be for the development and implementation of the pharmacy people and financial plans.
You will develop a robust workforce plan by engaging with key stakeholders, both within trust, ICS, region and beyond. This plan will consider the new training of pharmacy professionals and the expanding roles of the non-registered workforce. To deliver this you will lead the Pharmacy’s Learning and Development team and work with a variety of teams at all levels of the NHS.
Your financial plan will include the use of medicines, their commissioning and a robust cost improvement plan to keep the pharmacy department in financial balance. To do this you will liaise with many stakeholders, both within and outside of the Trust, and lead the Pharmacy’s Pharmacoeconomics team.
Both of these responsibilities will require you to have excellent communication and negotiation skills with clinical and non-clinical colleagues at all levels.
North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.
We commit to treating each patient as an individual with respect and dignity, aiming to deliver excellent clinical outcomes and a first-class experience for everyone who uses our services.
The pharmacy department has over 250 team members providing lots of different services, including ward clinical pharmacy, dispensary, stock provision, homecare, technical services and clinical trials amongst others.

Statutory Professional Accountabilities
The scale and scope of this job is such that these introductory statements provide an indication of where post holders may need to be aware of their own limitations with respect to certain aspects of the pharmacy service at NBT. They should be read in conjunction with the Person Specification.