NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group
Site Lead Pharmacist - Liverpool Women's Hospital
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Are you an ambitious and experienced pharmacy leader looking for an opportunity to shape the future of medicines optimisation and pharmacy services within a specialist hospital environment?
We are seeking an exceptional pharmacist to join Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as Site Lead Pharmacist for Liverpool Women’s Hospital. This is a high-profile leadership role, providing strategic and operational leadership for pharmacy services across one of the UK's leading specialist hospitals for women's health, maternity and neonatal care.
As the senior pharmacy leader on site, you will play a pivotal role in driving service excellence, leading high-performing multidisciplinary teams, improving patient outcomes and influencing strategic decision-making across the Trust, Group pharmacy service and wider healthcare system. You will work closely with senior operational, clinical and governance leaders, ensuring pharmacy services remain safe, effective, responsive and innovative.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead service transformation, workforce development, medicines optimisation and quality improvement within a specialist clinical environment, whilst contributing to the wider strategic direction of pharmacy services across the Group model.
If you are a compassionate, forward-thinking leader with a passion for delivering outstanding pharmacy services and developing others, we would welcome your application.
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Responsibilities
The Site Lead Pharmacist will provide visible, credible and effective leadership for pharmacy services at Liverpool Women's Hospital, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred and financially sustainable services. Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the operational and strategic delivery of pharmacy services across Liverpool Women's Hospital.
- Providing leadership for medicines optimisation, medicines safety, governance and quality improvement.
- Managing and developing the site pharmacy workforce, fostering a positive, inclusive and high-performing culture.
- Leading service planning, transformation programmes and improvement initiatives aligned to Trust and Group priorities.
- Holding delegated responsibility for pharmacy budgets, financial performance and delivery of cost improvement programmes.
- Providing assurance on quality, safety, workforce, operational performance and risk management through established governance processes.
- Leading the response to operational pressures, incidents, complaints and service recovery activities.
- Representing pharmacy services at Trust, Group, Integrated Care System (ICS), regional and national forums.
- Working collaboratively with senior clinical and operational leaders to improve patient outcomes across women's health, maternity and neonatal services.
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Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust and Liverpool Heart and Chest NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year.
The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Mohammed Ahmad
- Job title: Site Director of Pharmacy - RLH and LWH
- Email address: Mohammed.Ahmad@liverpoolft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0151 706 4559
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