Pharmacy Lead – Blackrock Clinic and Hermitage Clinic

Job Title: Pharmacy Lead – Blackrock Clinic and Hermitage ClinicDepartment: PharmacyBlackrock Health offers three leading modern hospitals and a diagnostic clinic to patients in Ireland. Our hospitals are at Blackrock Clinic, Galway Clinic and Hermitage Clinic - while Limerick Clinic is a diagnostic service. Working together, we aim to give patients faster and easier access to world-class clinical care and world-class comfort. Blackrock Health has been created to bring together the individual centres of expertise into one group. Collectively, we are growing our expertise so we can continue to achieve higher standards and even better health outcomes for our patients. Role Purpose·      To lead on both the clinical and strategic areas of pharmacy service ensuring all required legislative, quality and governance standards are met. ·      Has overall responsibility for delivering a high-quality pharmacy service, creating and directing strategies to develop and / or extend pharmacy services and to provide advice, direction, support, and supervision to staff members.·      To ensure both sites pharmacy departments are managed and to oversee the leadership of pharmacy departments.·      To ensure the medicines management component of clinical governance is met by pharmacy chiefs.·      To lead and have overall governance responsibility for the pharmacy services across both hospitals, relating goals and actions to the Blackrock Health Group’s strategic aims.·      Drive integration efficiency and cost optimisation.·      Evaluate opportunities for Blackrock Health to be a market leader. Qualifications/ ExperienceAll applicants must ·      Be the holder of a PSI approved Pharmacy Qualification.·      Be registered with the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland.·      Have at least 7 years post registration hospital experience.·      Have management experience ·      Display evidence of personal professional development Key Responsibilities·      The Pharmacy Lead will oversee the implementation of a medicines management policy. The Pharmacy Lead will advise the Hospital CEO’s on consistency of this policy with relevant standards.·      The Pharmacy Lead will help shape and contribute to Clinical Governance at both hospitals.·      The Pharmacy Lead, in liaison with hospital pharmacy chiefs, nursing, medical and financial colleagues, will contribute to the work of the hospital’s Drugs and Therapeutics committees, optimising governance of the introduction of new medicines as well as the safe and economic use of all medicines, within local and nationally assigned medicines budgets. This will include the oversight of audits regarding medicines and related technologies and prescribing indications. ·      The Pharmacy Lead will be a key leader with clinical management responsibility, ensuring a high standard of hospital pharmacy services aligned to best international practice, ensuring innovation, adopting national initiatives and guidelines producing demonstrable improvements in service delivery. ·      The Pharmacy Lead will strengthen professional leadership through effective communication, motivation and by challenging barriers to change, influencing others in sharing a common vision of safe, cost and clinical effective medicines use for the benefit of those receiving care in the service.The Pharmacy Lead will: ·      Always promote and act in accordance with the Code of Conduct of Pharmacists (PSI 2019).·      Responsible for compliance with the requirements of the Pharmacy Act 2007·      Ensure and oversee the implementation of medicines management across both hospitals, to enhance the safe and cost-effective use of medicines, to seek benefits of economies of scale and thereby optimising medicines usage. ·      Lead on the provision and development of clinical (patient-facing), aseptic compounding services, medicines information and clinical decision support systems, and supply services to ensure safe and appropriate treatment for all. ·      Promote a pharmacy value stream from admission to discharge, including the extension of hospital pharmacist expertise in the provision of home care and non-acute hospital care. Ensure staff work in collaboration with those across the system to strive for effective joined up and smooth transitions of care for people.·      Ensure capability to provide expert advice on pharmacy service matters including implementation of clinical care programmes and protocols for the care and treatment of patients in ambulatory care, continuing care within the clinical and corporate governance of the hospital, amongst local hospital staff.·      Oversee the provision of medicines expertise to the Drugs and Therapeutics Committee·      Provide expertise to other hospital committees as appropriate.·      Contribute to Group and local hospital strategy in the use of technology in medicines management and clinical decision support, to include electronic prescribing, applications (‘aps’) for patient care portable devices, pharmacy inventory and financial management software and the use of robotics. ·      Monitor and promote organisation and group-wide systems to ensure pharmacy team members identify and optimise treatment with high-risk medicines and antimicrobials·      Ensures processes are in place to provide safe supply of clinically indicated medicines when needed.·      Conduct and promote practice audit to inform the Clinical Governance structures on practice development.Why work at Blackrock Health?At Blackrock Health, we are passionate about our people and believe in their development and growth. As a member of the Blackrock Health team you can benefit from: Development opportunitiesAccess to a Pension SchemeSubsidised RestaurantOnsite car parkingLife AssuranceSports and Social clubEmployee Assistance ProgrammeDiscounted onsite pharmacy Please Note:Job descriptions are a reflection of the present service requirements and may be subject to review and amendments to meet the changing needs of the service. Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.Blackrock Health is an Equal Opportunities employer, and we are committed to creating an environment that promotes equality and dignity at work. Blackrock Health is committed to providing reasonable accommodation when needed. Please advise if you have particular requirements, so that we can look into arranging reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process. You can contact us at HR@blackrockhealth.com It is essential that you have valid work permission for the Republic of Ireland to take up employment for this position, or in the case of critical skills, you must be eligible for a work permit.