Medicines Procurement, Stores and Distribution Team Service Manager

The post holder is responsible for: Responsible for the provision and operation management of Pharmacy Procurement and Stores Services across the trust, to ensure the procurement and supply of medicines and associated services for CHFT follows all legal and statutory controls in line with the General Pharmaceutical Council, national procurement legislation, trust Standing Financial Instructions and regional / national contracting regulations and in a safe and effective manner ensuring best quality patient care. Responsible for the development and coordination of a governance and legal framework for the pharmacy procurement, stores and distribution services. Responsible for maintaining medicines management procurement, storage and handling standards to monitor and maintain pharmacy stores stockholding. To responsible for ensuring safe systems and processes for ordering, receipt and storage of medical gases ensuring compliance with HTM standards. Responsible for procurement and stores/ distribution service development and support Clinical Director of pharmacy and Deputy Clinical Director of pharmacy in short/long term strategic planning. To be the Pharmacy Health and Safety lead and provide outputs of departmental reviews to the Pharmacy Board and Trust groups. Responsible for development, implementation and review of policies and procedures for all aspects of the service. Benchmarking and reviewing national standards to ensure best practice.,

• Ensure storage of medication within pharmacy meets required legislative and good practice standards
• Responsible for the cost-effective management of medicines stock within the main pharmacy store ensuring stock holding is maintained at adequate levels and is monitored regularly
• Responsible for the pharmacy stock medicines service provision, including regulatory aspects, inventory management and stock medicines delivered to all trust sites and external customers.
• Responsible for oversight of workforce planning for all procurement and stores staffing requirements.
• As Pharmacy lead for health and safety, ensure systems and processes are in place for COSSH, fire warden checks, security. Ensure health and safety action plans are reviewed, relevant and up to date.
• Ensuring month end/ stock valuation reports are updated /completed and all relevant stores and procurement data is available for Pharmacy Board meetings (including providing assurance that stock checks and expiry date checks have been completed)
• Ensuring processes in place and staff trained to investigate stock discrepancies, adjusting stock levels and ensuring adequate stock levels.
• To oversee the documentation for off contract orders and ensure resulting financial claims are met.
• Support Deputy CD of pharmacy in delivery medicines sustainability/ green agenda
  
  We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services. We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza. We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS - yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff and the local community. Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.