Medicine Management Lead

Medicine Management Lead| Pharmacy | Spire Portsmouth Hospital | Havant | Full Time, Monday - Friday | Permanent | Band 8a Eqv
Spire Portsmouth Hospital has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Hospital Pharmacy manager to join the Pharmacy team on a full time permanent basis. This is your opportunity to join one of the UK's leading private hospitals and take your career to the next level.

Duties and responsibilities:
- To lead, plan and deliver the operational and clinical aspects of pharmaceutical services within the hospital in accordance with current legislation, accepted professional and ethical standards and clinical requirements.
- Be responsible for leading, motivating and effectively managing the pharmacy team by providing excellent clinical and managerial leadership.
- To provide advice and support to consultants, other clinicians and patients ensuring the safe, appropriate and cost effective use of medicines.
- To advise the hospital and its departments on the safe management of medicines, ensuring compliance with current legislation and professional standards.
- To promote a multidisciplinary, patient focused approach to the delivery of an efficient, high quality healthcare service.
Who we're looking for:
- Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Significant experience of surgical patient management/pathway.
- Ideally Worked in a Hospital pharmacy at Manager level
- Experience of working in partnership with consultants and across clinical teams.
- Analysing clinical and management problems and coming up with viable solutions
- Experience of applying clinical reasoning skills to a range of complex and varied patient cases
- Challenging consultants to influence evidence based practice
- Competence across a range of pharmaceutical subjects supported by professional and clinical knowledge
Benefits:
We offer employed colleagues a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
- 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
- Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
- 'Spire for you' reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
- Free Bupa wellness screening
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
Our Values:
We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:
- Driving clinical excellence
- Doing the right thing
- Caring is our passion.
- Keeping it simple
- Delivering on our promises
- Succeeding and celebrating together
We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.
Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.
For further information about this role or for an informal conversation about the range of career options available with Spire please contact Sherine Lowers at

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.
Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications