Site Lead Pharmacist - The Walton CentreNHS

Job summary

Are you an ambitious and experienced pharmacy leader looking for an opportunity to shape the future of medicines optimisation and pharmacy services within a specialist hospital environment?

Following significant investment, we are pleased to advertise for an exceptional pharmacist to join Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as Site Lead Pharmacist for The Walton Centre. This is a high profile leadership role, providing strategic and operational leadership for pharmacy services across one of the UK's leading specialist hospitals.

As the senior pharmacy leader on site, you will play a pivotal role in driving service excellence, leading high-performing multidisciplinary teams, improving patient outcomes and influencing strategic decision making across the Trust, Group Pharmacy Service and wider healthcare system. You will work closely with senior operational, clinical and governance leaders, ensuring pharmacy services remain safe, effective, responsive and innovative.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead service transformation, workforce development, medicines optimisation and quality improvement within a specialist clinical environment, whilst contributing to the wider strategic direction of pharmacy services across the Group model.

If you are a compassionate, forward thinking leader with a passion for delivering outstanding pharmacy services and developing others, we would welcome your application.

Main duties of the job

The Site Lead Pharmacist will provide visible, credible and effective leadership for pharmacy services at The Walton Centre, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient centred and financially sustainable services. Key responsibilities include:

Leading the operational and strategic delivery of pharmacy services across The Walton Centre

Providing leadership for medicines optimisation, medicines safety, governance and quality improvement.

Managing and developing the site pharmacy workforce, fostering a positive, inclusive and high-performing culture.

Leading service planning, transformation programmes and improvement initiatives aligned to Trust and Group priorities.

Holding delegated responsibility for pharmacy budgets, financial performance and delivery of cost improvement programmes.

Providing assurance on quality, safety, workforce, operational performance and risk management through established governance processes.

Leading the response to operational pressures, incidents, complaints and service recovery activities.

Representing pharmacy services at Trust, Group, Integrated Care System (ICS), regional and national forums.

Job description

The postholder will be accountable for the leadership, development and delivery of pharmacy services at The Walton Centre and will operate with delegated authority from the Site Director of Pharmacy to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and responsive pharmacy services within the pharmacy operating model.

Strategic Leadership

Lead the development, implementation and review of The Walton Centre Business plan.

Develop and deliver site-based service plans, improvement programmes and transformation initiatives aligned to Trust and Group objectives.

Contribute to organisational and cross site strategic planning, service redesign and business case development.

Represent pharmacy services within hospital, Group, ICS and regional structures as required.

Ensure The Walton Centre priorities and risks are appropriately reflected in wider organisational decision-making.

Operational Leadership

Provide visible senior leadership for all pharmacy services delivered at The Walton Centre

Maintain oversight of service quality, workforce performance, patient safety, operational resilience and performance against agreed standards.

Lead the management of operational pressures, incidents, complaints, service disruptions and recovery activities.

Chair and lead relevant pharmacy management and operational forums

Ensure effective coordination and delivery of site pharmacy priorities and objectives

Clinical Leadership

Provide senior professional and clinical leadership across neurology and neurosurgery

Support the safe, effective and evidence based use of medicines through prescribing support, medicines optimisation and implementation of clinical guidelines.

Provide professional supervision and clinical leadership to pharmacists and pharmacy teams

Promote and support high standards of clinical practice across both dispensary and clinical services.

For full details, please refer to the attached job description

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.