High Salary: Head of Pharmacy

Head of Pharmacy
Applications are invited for the above post from suitably qualified persons.

Cpl Healthcare, in partnership with our client, a specialist rehabilitation hospital in South Dublin, is currently recruiting for a Clinical Pharmacy Executive Manager to join their team.

Purpose of Position: To lead and conduct day-to-day operations and overall management of the pharmacy service and staff while owning the governance and implementation of Medicine Management within the hospital.

The main duties and responsibilities of the Pharmacy Executive Manager will include:

1. Have a strategic focus on the development of the Health Service Executive’s Pharmacy Service in line with legislation and the development of national policies. Ensure good pharmaceutical practice, legal and ethical, in the provision of the pharmacy service and ensure that operations are in compliance with the requirements of the pharmacy regulator, i.e., the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI), as described in the Pharmacy Act 2007 and other relevant legislation.
2. Develop and advise on the strategic programme and/or technologies required to deliver and maintain the pharmacy service.
3. Ensure that the needs of the service user/patients and professional staff are being adequately met by the pharmaceutical service and are delivered in a manner that respects privacy, ensures data protection requirements are met, and confidentiality is adhered to in treatment.
4. Lead on pharmacy service planning and monitoring considering skill mix, staff resources, and advances in technology.
5. Liaise with senior pharmacy colleagues, nursing, medical, and financial colleagues to manage the drug expenditure for the pharmacy to ensure the Finance Department is aware of potential high-cost medicines.
6. Ensure pharmacy services operate a safety culture that aligns with organisational, national, and professional guidance.
7. Promote the safe use of medicines by evaluating and managing risks associated with the use of medicines and by participating in the hospital’s medicines safety reporting process, the National Incident Management System (NIMS), and reporting to the Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority as appropriate.

Qualifications & Experience:

1. Be a registered pharmacist with the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland or be entitled to be so registered.
2. Greater than 5 years post-qualification hospital experience and practice.
3. At least 2 relevant years of experience in the management of pharmacy and staff.
4. Previous experience in collaborating and advising multidisciplinary teams and Senior Leadership in all aspects from the Pharmacy Department perspective.
5. Possess the requisite knowledge, managerial, and administrative ability to satisfactorily discharge the duties of the office.

To Apply:
Please send your CV to Stephen Copeland at stephen.copeland@cplhealthcare.com or call Stephen on 014825424 for further information.

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