Support Superintendent Pharmacist

Were looking for a patient-focused and clinically driven Homecare Pharmacist to join our Pharmacy team based at Thorncliffe Park, Sheffield. As a Responsible Pharmacist, you will play a key role in ensuring the safe, effective and compliant delivery of pharmacy services for homecare patients. You will provide professional leadership to the pharmacy team, oversee dispensing operations, support service development initiatives and contribute to delivering exceptional patient outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified pharmacist who enjoys working in a collaborative healthcare environment and wants to make a real difference to patients receiving treatment at home. Working hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday Friday - Onsite, Your main responsibilities:

• Act as the Responsible Pharmacist for the registered pharmacy premises, ensuring the safe and effective delivery of pharmacy services and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Provide guidance, support and professional leadership to pharmacy colleagues, ensuring high standards of patient care and service delivery.
• Clinically check prescriptions, dispensed products and patient formulations, ensuring accuracy, safety and timely supply to patients.
• Provide expert pharmaceutical advice to patients, nurses, healthcare professionals and internal stakeholders, resolving complex clinical queries where required.
• Ensure adherence to General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) standards, pharmacy legislation, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and quality requirements.
• Contribute to audits, risk assessments, incident investigations, CAPAs, complaints management and continuous improvement activities.
• Participate in the pharmacy on-call rota to support homecare services outside normal working hours where required., Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• 7% employer pension contribution
• 3x Salary life assurance
• Group income protection scheme
• Enhanced sick pay and family friendly payments
• Health and wellbeing programme
• Employee assistance programme
• And much more, Main Job Purpose:(Note: In addition to the duties outlined, employees may be required to carry out duties which do not affect the nature of this post).
Undertakes the duties of a Responsible Pharmacist in the registered BBraun Medical Pharmacy premises, being responsible and accountable for the safe and effective provision of pharmacy services whilst signed on. Provides specialist professional expertise for existing and new ambulatory services, taking professional accountability for advice given and decisions made. Liaises with cross BBraun divisional departments to ensure that pharmacy products are delivered in an accurate, timely and cost effective manner. Key Responsibilities and Duties: Team Management and Leadership: Acts as a Responsible Pharmacist for the B Braun Pharmacies, being responsible for the day to day running of the pharmacy when signed on and being accountable for safe and effective service delivery. Provides professional leadership for the pharmacy team, ensuring that the service provided to TransCare and Renal Therapies customers is in accordance with the GPhC professional standards and taking responsibility for their practice. Contribute to the education, training and development of the pharmacy team or of others. Responsible for ensuring appropriate delegation of tasks and exercising proper oversight. To maintain own competency and continuous professional development in line with regulatory and business requirements. Marketing and Service Development: Provide professional expertise, advice and support to the TransCare management team to facilitate service development when required. Attend customer account review meetings, developing and maintaining key customer stakeholder relationships. To develop clinical knowledge in a designated area to support ambulatory services. Service Delivery and Contract Management: Responsible for ensuring operational pharmacy duties are completed for homecare services. Checking dispensed items for TransCare and Renal Therapies patients, responsible for accuracy of product supplied to patients. Checking set up of patient formulations, product stability and prescription accuracy, liaising with internal and external colleagues and being accountable for the accurate and timely completion of these. Responsibility for ensuring the pharmacy service is patient focused and in accordance with the market position of Quality Service Provider. Participating in rota to support homecare services outside working hours, taking queries from nurses and patients, responsible for providing advice and making out of hours supplies and taking accountability for outcomes. Contribute to the completion of tenders. Discuss complex clinical and formulation issues with external customers, negotiating solutions to provide the best outcome for patients. To be a point of contact for wider ambulatory colleagues, answering queries or delegating tasks to other pharmacy team members as appropriate. Compliance: Support Superintendent Pharmacist with ensuring compliance with the General Pharmaceutical Council Standards for registered pharmacies, relevant legislation and contractual obligations. Contribute to maintenance of Standard Operating Procedures in place to ensure the safe and effective running of the pharmacy and delivery of pharmacy services. To assist in the writing and review of pharmacy SOPs where appropriate. Support with ensuring pharmacy staff document and report product quality complaints or adverse drug reactions, in accordance with the procedure, to Regulatory Affairs department. Contribute to completing, acting on and reporting pharmacy risk assessments, CAPAs, near-misses, complaints and incidents. Engaging with General Pharmaceutical Council inspections and supporting with implementation of corrective actions following any findings raised. Quality Assurance: Responsibility for maintaining high quality, best practice and continuous improvement of the pharmacy service in line with business requirements and overall marketing strategy Support Superintendent Pharmacist with delivering pharmacy services effectively and efficiently.
• Support with ensuring the pharmacy services meet and maintain CQC standards.
Support with ensuring the pharmacy processes meet and maintain the required standards for the General Pharmaceutical Council. Support the Superintendent Pharmacist in managing any issues with the potential to impact patients, for example product recalls, in conjunction with the CAPS Quality Manager and other relevant parties. To make professional decisions in ambiguous situations, ensuring patient safety and continuity of care. Support with data collection to demonstrate performance against key performance indicators for ambulatory services.
• To ensure reports from customers relating to product quality complaints or adverse drug reactions are documented and the essential minimum information is collected and forwarded to the Regulatory Affairs Department the same day they are received.
• To deal with any other duties which do not change the nature of this post
• Contribute to development of B Braun UK through enthusiastic participation in cross divisional activities.
• To act in a professional manner at all times in order to promote a positive image of the Company.
  
  MPharm Degree (or equivalent qualification in Pharmacy)
• Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Post-registration pharmacist experience within a relevant clinical setting
• Strong clinical knowledge and understanding of pharmacy governance and regulations
• Excellent attention to detail and commitment to patient safety
• Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders, Masters degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Post registration pharmacist experience in a relevant area such as homecare, aseptic services, nutrition, dialysis, antibiotics or oncology
• Proven leadership skills
• Shows patient and customer focus
• Displays attention to detail
• Excellent communicator who can inspire action internally and externally
• Displays flexibility and adaptability
• Ability to focus on solutions and work with others to achieve this
• Detailed understanding of General Pharmaceutical Council Regulations.
• Excellent pharmacy product and clinical knowledge to appreciate critical issues and solutions
• Self-driven with a positive outlook, and a clear focus on high quality and patient impact
• Ability to work under pressure, take ownership and prioritise appropriately
• Reliable, open, honest, proactive and determined
• Professional at all times
• Embraces challenge and change
• Effective team player
• Enthusiasm for developing others
• Able to provide and accept constructive feedback, Experience of working within a commercial healthcare environment
• Experience in planning, developing and/or delivering pharmacy services
• Postgraduate clinical qualification (or equivalent)
• Membership of the Royal College of Pharmacy
• Awareness of the UK homecare market and the NHS
• Understanding of Aseptic Services
• Understanding of continuous improvement principles and business improvement techniques
• Credible, and comfortable in dealing with clinical NHS and MPSC colleagues