Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
Pharmacy Business & Performance Manager
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Job Overview
We are looking for an experienced, motivated and forward-thinking leader to join our Pharmacy senior leadership team as Pharmacy Business Development Manager.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with strong operational, financial and performance management expertise to play a pivotal role in shaping the commercial future of Pharmacy services at the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust.
You will provide strategic and operational leadership across a broad portfolio, including service development, business planning, financial oversight, performance improvement, clinical trials income generation and service continuity, while working closely with the Director of Pharmacy, senior clinical leaders and wider Trust colleagues.
We are seeking a highly capable individual with significant management experience, strong analytical and communication skills, and the ability to lead change, influence across organisational boundaries and deliver results in a complex NHS environment. In return, you will join a values-driven team, with the opportunity to make a real difference to patient care, contribute to innovative service development, and be part of the wider BSW Hospitals Group, helping to shape collaborative working and future models of care across the Group.
Main duties of the job
In this key role you will:
- Provide strategic leadership and operational management for Pharmacy, ensuring financial balance and management, performance assurance, and cross-Trust collaboration.
- Hold delegated service responsibility for delivery, expansion and income generation from clinical trials and research and development.
- Designated operational lead to maintain service continuity, including decision-making authority when senior professional managers are unavailable or on a rota basis.
- Lead Trust-wide programmes, and drive efficiency, income generation, and cost improvement while upholding governance, contract, and regulatory and financial requirements.
- The post holder will be a specialist resource to the Pharmacy Department and will have a significant role in supporting our strategic development and commercial opportunities as well as act in an operational capacity supporting the robust delivery of Pharmacy services.
- The role will help to shape future direction and forge sustainable profitable new business relationships to meet the relevant growth targets.
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Reporting directly to the Director of Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation, the post-holder will be accountable for providing financial oversight for RUH Pharmacy services, developing and maintaining services both in the Trust and with partner organisations.
- Be a part of the Trust On Call Management Rota and Divisional bed rota.
Working for our organisation
We are proud to be part of BSW Hospitals Group - a formal partnership between the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. With a combined workforce of over 17,600 colleagues, and budget of 1.6 billion the Group is united by a common purpose to deliver the best possible care to over 1 million people.
We are creating a health and care system that works with the people we care for, reducing the differences people currently face in access, experience and outcomes, improving the experience of our colleagues and tackling shared challenges like sustainability and finances. Every improvement we make across our Group will be guided by what creates the greatest benefit for our colleagues, our patients, our communities and our partners.
By working together, we make a real difference for our patients, each other, and our community. Every role matters in delivering the exceptional, person-centred care we’re proud of.
We’re committed to a compassionate, inclusive culture where kindness is championed, differences are valued, and diversity makes us stronger.
We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential. We prioritise staff wellbeing – and yes, we even have a pool!
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MSc degree level or equivalent Management qualification
- Post-graduate qualification relevant to the post or equivalent
- Formal project management qualification
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Desirable criteria
- Graduate or post graduate level qualification in management / leadership
Experience
Essential criteria
- General management experience in an acute NHS Trust
- Experience of business and service planning, including writing business plans
- Evidence of effective working with clinicians and the multidisciplinary team
- Significant experience of budget and staff management
- Demonstrable experience of Improvement methodology
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of Pharmacy
- Experience of strategy development
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to independently initiate programmes of work and manage teams to deliver
- Ability to develop, implement and monitor complex contracts /SLAs /Agreements
- Able to prepare and analyse complex reports and policies e.g. Business Cases
Please note - Due to recent changes in UK immigration and visa rules applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered unless an alternative right to work solution can be provided. Candidates requiring sponsorship (or will need sponsorship at the end of a current visa e.g. those with graduate visa's) should review the eligibility criteria on the gov.uk website before applying: Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK
Applicant requirements
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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Further details / informal visits contact
- Name: Uzo Ibechukwu
- Job title: Director of Pharmacy & Medicines Optimisation
- Email address: uibechukwu@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01225 824631
Or contact Jessica Taylor (current postholder): jessica.taylor36@nhs.net
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