Deputy Chief Pharmacist (Community Health)

You will focus on our teams supporting neighbourhood health, primary care and leading prescribers within our organisation across all professional groups.

In this pivotal role, you will develop services to a level of excellence across healthcare boundaries and into Communities surrounding our Trust to reflect Trust and ICB objectives, national policy and initiatives and deliver learning across multiple settings.

You will have experience of prescribing, delivering safety objectives and working within Primary Care in your own practice. You will provide professional leadership to a dynamic team, drive continuous improvement, innovation, and optimal use of resources across the Trust and wider health system.

As part of the senior leadership team, you will help steer business planning, service development, governance, training and financial stewardship, preparing business cases and securing resources to support growth and transformation across your portfolio, as well as deputising for the Chief Pharmacist when required and influencing the future of pharmacy services.

Main duties of the job

To lead, support, manage and develop, alongside the Chief Pharmacist, pharmaceutical services Trust wide, including clinical/cost effective use and the safe and secure handling of medicines.

To be the strategic lead for pharmacy developing services across healthcare boundaries and into PCNs.

Alongside the Chief Pharmacist, be responsible for the strategic planning and development of clinical pharmacy services and the governance of prescribing from all professional groups trust wide to ensure compliance with legal statutory requirements.

To be an independent prescriber and provide leadership to the provision and governance of independent prescribers in the Trust.

To be a role model and mentor to the expert primary care pharmacy practitioners within the Trust.

To provide highly specialised evidence-based medicines advice to members of the multidisciplinary team and service managers.

To lead on Medicines Education and Training Trust-wide supporting bids and preparing business plans for the delivery of expert education and training in all aspects of practice with medicines.

Be an active member of regional and national clinical pharmacy groups including the participation in any relevant audits/ benchmarking and research of the clinical pharmacy service provision.

Develop and promote partnerships with primary care, community services and other healthcare professions to create new and innovative roles, research medicines use and explore shared models of service delivery.

Are you an experienced, visionary pharmacist ready to make a real impact? We have a rare and exciting opportunity to join HIOW NHS FT at a senior level.

To be successful, you will be an excellent communicator who is a skilled, visible leader with the experience to develop our strategic vision for pharmacy services.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence