Head of Pharmacy

• Provide overall operational and clinical leadership, direction and accountability for the Pharmacy service.
• Lead service performance using data, KPIs and service intelligence to improve productivity, medicines safety, quality and workforce performance.
• Lead workforce planning, capacity, deployment and resilience, working closely with the rota and HR teams.
• Develop and embed the Pharmacy operating model, including the Acute/Duty Medicines, Repeat Prescribing/Re-authorisation, and Care Homes/Frailty/SMR workstreams.
• Ensure responsibility is appropriately distributed across senior pharmacists, with clear specialist areas, supervision, development and escalation arrangements.
• Lead medicines optimisation, medication review and repeat re-authorisation pathways, ensuring work is undertaken by the right professional at the right level of competence.
• Act as a senior clinical role model, mentor and source of professional leadership while maintaining advanced clinical credibility.
• Support the GP Pharmacy Partners with long-term strategic development, service transformation and financial sustainability.

• NHS pension scheme.
• Proper pay andLiving Wage Foundation accredited.
• Eye-care vouchers.
• 30 days annual leave FTE, with enhancements for long service.
• Paid breaks

Essential

• Substantial senior pharmacy leadership experience, preferably in primary care/general practice; experience of operational leadership, workforce management, service performance and complex change.
• Advanced clinical knowledge in primary care; medicines optimisation; medication review and repeat re-authorisation; high-risk medicines and monitoring; multidisciplinary working.
• Experience of medicines governance, policies, incidents, audit/QI, patient safety and use of performance data.
• Experience of line management, clinical supervision, appraisal, performance management, coaching/mentoring and workforce development.
• Highly developed leadership, communication, influencing and organisational skills; able to prioritise, delegate, challenge constructively, manage competing demands and hold teams accountable.
• Able to use digital systems and data to redesign pathways, improve productivity and reduce avoidable work.