Head of Pharmacy at Cedarcrest Hospitals

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The Head of Pharmacy has overall accountability for the delivery of all pharmacy and medicines optimization services within a hospital.

KEY PRIORITIES:

• Leadership in transforming the way the hospital deals with medicines to optimize their use, engaging at the highest level strategically as well as operationally.
• Support the development of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians’ clinical work as well as all healthcare professionals involved in the management of medicines.
• Support the hospital management on role modeling the company’s values and mission.

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

• Perform the duties and responsibilities of the most senior pharmacist as required by the Pharmacy Regulator.
• Accountable for the delivery of high quality, progressive pharmacy services, ensuring that they are centered around the patient, are safe, modern and are delivered by competent staff within agreed budgets.
• Provide strategic and professional leadership for Medicines Optimization services provided to the hospital and other external customers.
• Provide professional leadership to all staff and be responsible for their development and support.
• Have accountability for the audit of all aspects of the pharmacy service against agreed standards and for the co-ordination and implementation of research and development activity related to medicines optimization.
• Ensure that all practice relating to medicines optimization throughout the hospital complies with the current legislative framework and, where practice is found to be non-compliant, this is addressed through the relevant processes.
• Provide leadership and expert advice on medicines management to ensure that processes throughout the hospital are safe, effective and legal and are supported by up-to-date policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Ensure trust-wide compliance with new directives as they arise where medicinal products are involved.
• Facilitate the good management of antimicrobials to minimize the occurrence of hospital acquired infections by ensuring pharmacy adherence to up to date policies, guidelines and systems of work.
• Ensure that that pharmacy services are provided with due regard to patient safety and that systems are in place to investigate medication incidents so that corrective action can be taken to minimize the likelihood of re-occurrence.
• Investigate opportunities to involve patients and the public in design and delivery of pharmacy services.
• Clinical leadership in transforming the way the hospital deals with medicines to optimize their use, engaging at the highest level strategically as well as operationally.
• Support the development of pharmacists and pharmacy technician’s clinical work as well as all healthcare professionals involved in the management of medicines.
• Lead on the implementation of all medication safety alerts for the hospital, working closely with the Nursing Services Manager and Medical Director