Head of Clinical Pharmacy Services - King's Lynn, United Kingdom - The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
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King's Lynn, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Our #TeamQE Pharmacy team have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist with strong leadership and operational management skills.


You will be an excellent communicator and team leader with the drive and determination to inspire others and develop our clinical pharmacy service.


The Head of Pharmacy Clinical Service will provide clinical and strategic leadership for the clinical team, working to develop a culture which enables clinical colleagues to flourish and provide the highest standards of care for our patients.


If you have an impressive track record as a pharmacist in your chosen clinical specialism, evidence of senior pharmacy leadership, change management and service improvement delivery, and possess well-developed interpersonal and communication skills we can offer you a challenging, but fulfilling role, with support to develop.


  • Key role responsibilities:
  • Lead and manage the pharmacy clinical team, providing leadership and support, clinical supervision, quality service delivery and delivery of performance standards.
  • Lead the clinical pharmacy service development at an operational & strategic level.
  • Strategically lead the pharmacy departments clinical audit programme and support team members to develop improvement and action plans to effect change.
  • Be part of the pharmacy senior leadership team and contribute to business development projects within the Trust including cost saving initiatives, liaising with the senior multidisciplinary teams within the Trust and external organisations.
  • Lead department and trust level quality Improvement programmes, such as Improvements to the discharge process to Improve patient experience and effectively manage resources.
  • Collaboratively represent pharmacy and be part of the team delivering strategic, large scale digital Improvement, leading the pharmacy deliverables
  • Oversee the Pharmacy's Education and Training programme for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, trainee foundation pharmacists, preregistration pharmacy technicians and all members of the pharmacy team.
  • Deputise for the Chief Pharmacist on clinical and staff management issues and act as the senior Pharmacy representative at relevant clinical meetings (internal & external).
  • Be accountable for the out of hours and oncall service and participate In the senior rota provision


The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust is a 500-bed district general hospital, serving a population of around 331,000 people in three counties - Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.

Our 4,000-plus workforce is committed to working with health and social care partners to deliver safe, high-quality care.


We are the only acute provider within a 40 miles radius, therefore we play a key role in the wider local health economy.

There has never been a more exciting time to join our Trust.

We have established a strong leadership team and are now on a journey of improvement to provide compassionate care and support our committed and talented staff.

Our new corporate strategy sets out an ambitious vision for Team QEH to be the best rural District General Hospital for patient and staff experience.

The response from our staff to the recent and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has been incredible.

It has also given us an opportunity to continue to think differently and innovatively about how we provide services and it has accelerated our use of digital technologies.


King's Lynn boasts a historic medieval port dating back to the 12th century and is a short distance from some of the country's most beautiful beaches as well as being within easy reach of the vibrant cultural cities of Cambridge and Norwich.

See the attached Job Description for further information about this role. The Job Description includes thePerson Specification for use during shortlisting and interview.
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