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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the IC S in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is seeking an exceptional and forward-thinking pharmacy leader to join our leadership team as Chief Pharmacist . As the Trust's senior professional lead for pharmacy and medicines management, you will be responsible for ensuring the safe, effective and financially sustainable use of medicines across inpatient, outpatient and community services. You will provide strategic leadership for medicines safety, clinical governance, workforce development, service transformation and medicines optimisation, while acting as the Trust's principal adviser on pharmaceutical matters. This influential leadership role offers the opportunity to shape services across the organisation and wider health system, delivering improvements in patient outcomes, operational performance and financial sustainability while ensuring the highest standards of quality, safety and regulatory compliance.

Main duties of the job

• Provide strategic and professional leadership for all pharmacy and medicines management services across the Trust.
• Lead on medicines safety, clinical governance and regulatory compliance, ensuring the safe and effective use of medicines.
• Act as the Trust's principal adviser on pharmaceutical matters, providing expert guidance to the Board, Executive Team and clinical services.
• Develop and deliver the Pharmacy Strategy, supporting the Trust's operational, quality and performance objectives.
• Lead the Trust's medicines optimisation, efficiency and cost improvement programmes, ensuring effective stewardship of medicines expenditure.
• Provide leadership and oversight of the pharmacy workforce, including workforce planning, recruitment, development and succession planning.
• Drive innovation, service transformation and continuous improvement to enhance patient outcomes and service delivery.
• Build strong partnerships across the Trust, Integrated Care System and wider healthcare sector, representing the organisation at local, regional and national forums.
• Lead research, education and professional development initiatives, promoting excellence in pharmacy practice and medicines management.
• Contribute as a senior leader within the Trust, supporting organisational strategy, performance, quality improvement and financial sustainability.

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities Job Purpose The Chief Pharmacist and Clinical Director for Pharmacy provides strategic, professional, clinical and operational leadership for Pharmacy and Medicines Management services across the Trust. The postholder is accountable for ensuring the safe, effective and cost-efficient use of medicines across inpatient, outpatient and community services, while contributing to organisational performance, patient safety, quality improvement and financial sustainability.

As the Trust's senior pharmaceutical adviser, the postholder provides expert advice to the Chief Executive, Executive Directors, Clinical Directors and senior managers on all aspects of pharmacy, medicines optimisation, legislation and governance. The role leads a multidisciplinary pharmacy workforce, drives service transformation and innovation, and ensures compliance with all relevant professional, statutory and regulatory standards.

The postholder is responsible for the Pharmacy budget and has strategic oversight of Trust-wide medicines expenditure. They will lead medicines efficiency programmes, contribute to cost improvement initiatives, support research and education, and represent the Trust within local, regional and national professional networks.

Main Responsibilities Strategic Leadership

• Lead the development and delivery of the Pharmacy and Medicines Management Strategy and annual business plan.
• Ensure pharmacy services support Trust objectives, operational priorities and patient care standards.
• Provide professional leadership and strategic direction for all pharmacy and medicines management activities.
• Advise executive leaders on pharmaceutical policy, medicines governance and service development.
• Contribute to Trust-wide strategy, transformation and service redesign as a Clinical Director and senior divisional leader.
• Represent the Trust in local, regional and national pharmacy and healthcare forums.

Service Delivery and Performance

• Ensure safe, timely, effective and patient-centred pharmacy services across all care settings.
• Monitor service quality, productivity and performance against agreed objectives.
• Lead service improvement and transformation programmes that enhance quality, efficiency and patient experience.
• Ensure business continuity and operational resilience for critical pharmacy services.
• Regularly review service effectiveness and implement improvements where required.

Clinical Governance and Medicines Safety

• Lead the safe, appropriate and cost-effective use of medicines across the Trust.
• Ensure compliance with the Medicines Act, Misuse of Drugs legislation, Human Medicines Regulations and professional standards.
• Lead implementation of medicines safety initiatives arising from MHRA, NICE and other national guidance.
• Investigate, respond to and learn from incidents, complaints, audits and safety concerns.
• Maintain effective governance, risk management and assurance arrangements for medicines management.
• Provide expert pharmaceutical advice to Trust committees, project groups and clinical teams.
• Act as a key member of the Medicines Management Committee and support delivery of its objectives.

Clinical and Professional Practice

• Act as a role model for advanced clinical pharmacy practice.
• Provide specialist pharmaceutical advice for patients with complex clinical needs.
• Support multidisciplinary decision making relating to medicines and therapeutics.
• Maintain clinical credibility through direct engagement with clinical teams and patient care when required.
• Promote evidence-based practice and medicines optimisation across the organisation.
• Lead and manage the Pharmacy workforce, ensuring appropriate staffing, skill mix and deployment.
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