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Location

Worthing, West Sussex | United Kingdom

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Job description

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the right candidate to be an integral part of our newly established West Sussex Division. As the Associate Divisional Director of Pharmacy you will be a valuable member of the divisional leadership team supporting the Trust, it's services and the pharmacy team in developing and delivering quality care for the people we serve. The Trust has recently moved to a place-based divisional structure - the geographical divisions being: Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex as well as a pan-Sussex Specialist division.

This post supports the West Sussex Division for the following functions:

• Medicines safety
• Medicines effectiveness
• Formulary adherence
• Medicines guideline development
• Medicines spend evaluation and efficiencies
• Delivery of the medicines optimisation strategy

Main duties of the job

This post will work in partnership with the Managing Director and the Clinical Director, and with the other Professional Leads as well as the rest of the Division's Senior Leadership Team to provide demonstrable assurance that the quality of clinical services including patient safety, experience and effectiveness meet the required standards and can be well evidenced and communicated. This will be achieved by effective leadership of the Division's pharmacy team.

Working for our organisation

As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.

You can expect:

• Access to full psychological support, the wellbeing team
• Excellent supervision programmes.
• Flexible working opportunities
• Access to a host of discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
• A position within a trust rated as Outstanding for caring and Good overall by the CQC
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Excellent NHS Pension Scheme

We encourage flexible working . We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please note - the attached job description will provide a more detailed account of the main responsibilities

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: Helena Bird

Job title: Chief Pharmacist

Email address: [email protected]

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria

• Educated to master's level or equivalent in a health-related field
• Evidence of significant relevant professional development
• Registered pharmacist (General Pharmaceutical Council)
• Proven ability to perform at strategic and senior management level

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Salary

£70.42k - £81.14k per annum