Lead Pharmacist - Audit and Transformation

A new role offering exciting opportunities to shape and drive Berkshire Healthcare pharmacy services in the years ahead. You will get autonomy, variation and the chance to further develop your leadership and clinical skills. You will work in a forward-thinking Trust that has adopted quality improvement approach (QMIS) which aims to help us deliver the best possible care to our patients, recognising that "better never stops".
If you are dynamic, innovative and proactive, seek and embrace change, and have a track record of implementing change and inspiring others, then we want you! Come and use your experience, knowledge, and energy to target service improvement and help take us to the next level. As AIT Pharmacist, you will represent pharmacy externally and at Trust meetings, liaising closely with other Trust leaders and managers. You will also be an experienced clinical pharmacist, ideally with strong mental health experience, + Major input into Pharmacy Vision, with senior Pharmacy team.
+ Responsibility for the ongoing development delivery of our Pharmacy vision.
+ Ensuring effective implementation and operation of pharmacy AIT plans.
+ Responsible for the ongoing development, audit and oversight of our change plans.
+ Be a clinically active member of the Pharmacy Service (circa 50% of time), in either mental or physical health services
+ Participating in the paid on-call (EDC) pharmacy service (approx. 1 in 10

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Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:
+ Caring for and about you is our top priority
+ Committed to providing good quality, safe services
+ Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
+ Flexible working options to support work-life balance
+ 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
+ Generous NHS pension scheme
+ Excellent learning and career development opportunities
+ 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
+ Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
+ Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
+ Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
+ Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
+ Free parking across Trust sites

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be considered for this role, you must have:
+ Great AIT delivery skills and strong relevant change experience
+ A hospital clinical pharmacist background, with a strong patient focus, clinical skills and knowledge
+ Good systems thinking, with a collaborative 'can-do' approach