Group Director of Pharmacy

Thank you for your interest in this exciting role for University Hospitals Tees – one of the largest group models in the NHS with a budget of circa £1.2 billion. Our services include acute, tertiary and community. The Group is seeking an experienced, driven, strategic leader to the role of Group Director of Pharmacy. This is an exciting and pivotal leadership role in the Group. The Director will be accountable for the strategic and operational delivery of the medicines management services within the Group. They will be expected to undertake a review of the current operational management across the two Trusts to deliver greater alignment and organisational efficiency within the financial envelope given. The successful application will also be the Chief Pharmacist on the South Tees site until the review of the Group Pharmacy requirements are completed.

The successful candidate will be accountable for ensuring that practice related to medicines management throughout the Group complies with current legislative framework. Where practice is found to be non-compliant, this is escalated through relevant Group processes, including full involvement and knowledge of the Group Chief Medical Officer. You would be responsible for the Group’s financial plan relating to medicines and pharmacy services and lead and support the strategic development and improvement of pharmacy services and medicines management in line with national, regional and local plans and priorities. You will work with colleagues in primary and secondary health environments across the North East and North Cumbria (NENC) Region to ensure best delivery of pharmaceutical services.

The successful candidate will deliver a change agenda to transform current pharmacy models on both sites into a unified service which delivers innovative and integrated ward-based and community health function. You will need to have extensive and successful experience at Board level delivering a range of health services in a large and complex organisation.

The successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate the six NHS Leadership Competency Domains.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail and will be required to complete psychometric tools in advance of the assessment process. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox.

This post is subject to the rehabilitation of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Services (formerly known as the Criminal Records Bureau) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Due to the seniority of post, appropriate checks relevant to the Fit and Proper Persons Requirement will also be undertaken.

We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from black and minority ethnic communities, LGBT communities and from people with lived experience of disability.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Finn McNulty Job title: see above Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07966 006091