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Pharmacy Workforce Lead - UHBW & BNSSG


University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
Location 

Bristol

Employment Hours 

Part Time

Employment Type 

Contract

Salary 

£58,972 - £68,525 per annum pro rata

Job Highlights
  • University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country.
  • We are looking for someone to plan, influence and develop and implement strategic vision for the pharmacy workforce agenda, both within UHBW and across the BNSSG Integrated Care System.
  • The post holder ensure that take a lead role in progressing the development of a sustainable, flexible and integrated pharmacy workforce for the Trust.
Job Requirements/Description

Contract: Fixed term - 12 months (Split between UHBW and BNSSG ICB duties)

Hours: 30 hours per week

Part time, Flexible working, Home or remote working.

UHBW is collaborating with the BNSSG ICB to recruit a fixed-term pharmacy Workforce lead. 

Within UHBW, the post will take a lead role in progressing the development of a sustainable, flexible and integrated pharmacy workforce for the Trust. The post will lead the education team and set the vision for workforce development. The post holder will have a role as wellbeing lead for pharmacy, and represent the within the Trust.

Within BNSSG Integrated Care System (ICS), the post holder will contribute to the BNSSG workforce transformation agenda with the opportunity to develop and advance the pharmacy profession within BNSSG reflecting new ways of working across organisational boundaries, and to develop a workforce with the knowledge and skills to deliver high quality patient care. The post holder will work collaboratively and closely with all stakeholders across the system and with neighbouring ICSs. The post holder will work with a high degree of autonomy and have defined areas of leadership. They will support the chief pharmacist (medicines optimisation) in discharging the workforce elements of the national and local workforce agenda, representing BNSSG at pharmacy workforce meetings, both locally and regionally.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for someone to plan, influence and develop and implement strategic vision for the pharmacy workforce agenda , both within UHBW and across the BNSSG Integrated Care System.

The ideal candidate will be knowledgeable about wider factors influencing the direction of travel and longer term strategies in this area, and will have demonstrable experience in working with a wide range of stakeholders across varying levels and sectors.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

Person specification

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria

  • Ability to establish a culture of high performance, personal responsibility for quality of output, collaborative team-working and sharing of ideas, expertise and success.
  • Able to establish clear priorities amongst competing objectives and activities.
  • Results-driven, with commitment to deliver objectives to agreed quality standards, budget and timescales.
  • Ability to establish clear priorities among competing objectives and activities.
  • Able to manage high levels of complexity and ambiguity while maintaining team focus.
  • High level of relationship management skills.
  • Ability to build and maintain positive and productive relationships across a range of partners and stakeholders, working across organisational boundaries.
  • Superb communicator and influencer.
  • Ability to maintain focus in an environment of multiple conflicting demands on time and resources.
  • Ability to navigate the landscape of stakeholder relationships, especially in contentious situations.
  • Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda.
  • Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.

Desirable criteria

  • Politically astute. Understands internal and external organisational relationships and is sensitive to change management issues.

Qualifications and training

Essential criteria

  • Bachelor or Master of Pharmacy Degree.
  • Evidence of research skills to monitor transformation and change.
  • Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
  • Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development.

Desirable criteria

Research qualification

  • Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHSE and individual provider and commissioning organisations.

Knowledge and experience

Essential criteria

  • Workforce development and training experience in the healthcare sector with ability to provide expert advice and support on the development of existing and future workforce plan outcomes.
  • Wide range of pharmacy experience in both clinical and educational contexts.
  • Knowledge and experience of training, teaching, assessing and supervising pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, unregistered staff and students.
  • Competence across a range of management and leadership skills supported by skilled professional knowledge.
  • Experience of wellbeing, pastoral care at management level and being an advocate for others.
  • Evidence of inspiring and motivating teams with the ability to communicate passionately, effectively and persuasively across a diverse set of stakeholders.
  • Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
  • Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
  • Experience and evidence of research publications.
  • Understanding of local and national workforce challenges/ drivers for change within each sector of pharmacy, and how this might impact the wider workforce strategy.
  • Recent senior project/ programme management experience in a large, complex organisation.
  • Clear understanding of the current local and national healthcare, pharmacy workforce and medicines optimisation agendas.
  • An understanding of regulations and standards within pharmacy education.

Aptitudes

Essential criteria

  • Self-motivated, with high work standards for self and others.
  • Takes personal responsibility for quality of output.
  • Drive and resilience.
  • Discretion, tact and diplomacy - with honesty.
  • Commitment to the values and principles of the organisation and the NHS.
  • Strong and enthusiastic communicator with good negotiation skills and the ability to influence and affect change.

We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.

  • As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
  • The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
  • UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
  • To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 all applicants must be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed at Interview.
  • If you require sponsorship for a visa to work in the UK, to avoid disappointment, please check to ensure you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
  • The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
  • By applying for this post, you are agreeing to University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
Location 

Bristol

Employment Hours 

Part Time

Employment Type 

Contract

Salary 

£58,972 - £68,525 per annum pro rata

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