Chief Technician - #1778926

This new and exciting role has been created to join the Senior Pharmacy Management Team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to help shape the pharmacy workforce of the future. Being professionally and operationally responsible for the technician and assistant workforce (over 150 WTE staff), the successful candidate will help provide strategic leadership for this staff group across all sites within the Trust.

A strategic thinker, who demonstrates exceptional leadership skills and operational knowledge of hospital pharmacy services, along with in-depth knowledge of the pharmacy workforce issues will excel in this role.

Working locally, regionally and nationally, the successful candidate will ensure that the STH Pharmacy Technician/Assistant workforce is at the forefront of workforce development initiatives. Advising the Chief Pharmacist directly on all professional issues, the post holder will ensure that all legal and statutory requirements are met.

• Strategic Management and Business Planning
• Professional Leadership
• Operational Management – dispensary and medicines management teams
• Workforce Development
• Governance and Patient Safety
• Management responsibilities for a senior team (1wte band 8a, 3wte band 7) covering all hospital sites.
  
  

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. It is an energetic and vibrant organisation that places patients and staff at the heart of everything they do. We provide a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Sheffield, as well as specialist care for patients from further afield, including cancer, spinal cord injuries, renal and cardiothoracic services.

As a teaching hospital, we have a great commitment to education, training, and development of staff, including undergraduates from many professions. You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it services. The NHS offers a wide range of benefits including pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance and career, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.

The trust will give you time to use your skills and help you develop a fulfilling career as well as a commitment to support flexible working and can support such things as, part time hours, condensed hours, or job share. These options are not exhaustive, and we would encourage candidates to state any forms of flexible working they would like to explore in their application.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Graham Marsh Job title: Chief Pharmcist Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0114 271 4164

Chris Winnard

Deputy Chief Pharmacist (Operations)

[email protected]

0114 2714164