Total 13 Director/C-Level Health / Beauty / Fitness job vacancies in Speke, Liverpool, L24 9JW

To undertake the operational and administrative functions this will include: 1. Provide comprehensive PA support to the Chief Pharmacist including word processing documents, correspondence, reports as required for the assisting them with the processing of documents that she/he produces filing,photocopying and the composition of letters.2. Provide a full diary management service - booking meetings organising travel and preparing complex travel itineraries.3. Being first contact for the Chief Pharmacist and taking autonomous action asappropriate.4. Manage all incoming and outgoing mail, ensuring that urgent correspondence andmessages are given priority.5. Produce PowerPoint presentations and overheads for presentations.6. Update and maintain mailing for distributing information and contact details.7. Maintain an effective and secure filing system.8. Set up and maintain an effective bring forward system.9. Take responsibility for tasks that are delegated and ensure information and/or replies requested are pursued and received within the appropriate timescales. This will entail a good understanding of the work of the Chief Pharmacist and the ability to foster good working relationships with staff internal and external to the Trust.10. Maintain knowledge of NHS developments/initiatives both locally and nationally and Trust policies and procedures.11. Organise and prepare meetings and agendas.12. Planning, organising and managing events including Team Events, Away Days and External Events.13. Take minutes as required, liaising with the Chief Pharmacist to ensure deadlines for producing and circulating papers and minutes are agreed and met.14. Arrange specific events and hospitality as required, e.g., conferences, seminars and workshops Please refer to Job Description for more information.

To undertake the operational and administrative functions this will include: 1. Provide comprehensive PA support to the Chief Pharmacist including word processing documents, correspondence, reports as required for the assisting them with the processing of documents that she/he produces filing,photocopying and the composition of letters.2. Provide a full diary management service - booking meetings organising travel and preparing complex travel itineraries.3. Being first contact for the Chief Pharmacist and taking autonomous action asappropriate.4. Manage all incoming and outgoing mail, ensuring that urgent correspondence andmessages are given priority.5. Produce PowerPoint presentations and overheads for presentations.6. Update and maintain mailing for distributing information and contact details.7. Maintain an effective and secure filing system.8. Set up and maintain an effective bring forward system.9. Take responsibility for tasks that are delegated and ensure information and/or replies requested are pursued and received within the appropriate timescales. This will entail a good understanding of the work of the Chief Pharmacist and the ability to foster good working relationships with staff internal and external to the Trust.10. Maintain knowledge of NHS developments/initiatives both locally and nationally and Trust policies and procedures.11. Organise and prepare meetings and agendas.12. Planning, organising and managing events including Team Events, Away Days and External Events.13. Take minutes as required, liaising with the Chief Pharmacist to ensure deadlines for producing and circulating papers and minutes are agreed and met.14. Arrange specific events and hospitality as required, e.g., conferences, seminars and workshops Please refer to Job Description for more information.

Work in collaboration with Head of School of Medicine to develop and implement a Medical Workforce Strategy which supports the recruitment and retention of Clinical Oncology Trainees with focus on the regional education programs. For full job role, please see attached job description. Secondments Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.

Postholder will have responsibilities including Clinical Leadership, professional leadership to nursing and AHP staff accross the organisation, people management for all functions under the remit of the post. See job description and person specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities of the role.

Fantastic secondment opportunity for an ambitious nurse, midwife or AHP to join Liverpool Women’s, as Deputy to the Chief Nurse working across all areas of the professional and corporate portfolio

This is a development opportunity ringfenced to applicants in Cheshire and Merseyside.



The Deputy Chief Nursing Officer / Allied Health professional (DCN/ AHP) is a key role within the corporate team who, alongside the Director of Midwifery (DoM), provides the Chief Nursing (CN) with critical leadership support in leading the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (AHP) workforce and delivering high standards of care and experience to women, children, young people and their families.

In addition, the Deputy Chief Nurse/AHP will work closely with the Associate Director of Quality Governance to provide assurance of high standards of quality, safety, and experience, demonstrating ambitious clinical outcome measures.

The Deputy Chief Nurse / AHP will, on behalf of the Chief Nurse lead on health inequalitiesin developing and implementing models of service delivery to tackle health inequalities, bringing fresh and innovative approaches to coproduction.

The Deputy Chief Nurse/ AHP will act as a Deputy to the Chief Nurse across all areas of the portfolio and deputise for the Chief Nurse across a range of functions and meetings (internal and external) and during periods of leave/absence.

This is a development opportunity ringfenced to applicants in Cheshire and Merseyside.

For an informal discussion please contact Dianne BrownChief Nurse Dianne.brown@lwh.nhs,uk

Liverpool Women’s delivers the highest standards of care for women, babies and their families. It is an exciting environment to work in and a great place to develop your career.

We value the contribution of individual talent and are committed to having a workforce that is representative of the local community. We will consider requests forflexible workingon hiring.

Our core value is to ‘Be Kind’and we have an ambition to‘Be Brilliant’with the best people, giving the safest care, to provide outstanding experiences.

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Postholder will have responsibilities including Clinical Leadership, professional leadership to nursing and AHP staff accross the organisation, people management for all functions under the remit of the post. See job description and person specification for detailed job description and main responsibilities of the role.




This advert closes on Thursday 29 Aug 2024

Please see the job description and person specification document for detailed information about the job description for this vacancy

The successful candidate will be highly motivated, looking to develop and implement opportunities for service improvements. This will include introducing digital working methodologies where appropriate, promoting an innovative workplace culture to embed new practises in a safe, clear and transparent manner for all colleagues to understand and adhere to.

This role will contribute to the national agenda around ensuring parity of esteem between mental health and physical health. The post holder will Understand the context and challenges of mental health in primary care in order to support the pharmacy workforce, translating national drivers into local practice Build strong relationships and network with other experts and disciplines, both as individuals and organisations, to identify and support good practice, ensuring a person-centred approach at all times.

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A Vacancy at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.


Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust (LUFHT) are about to embark on a once in a generation transformational programme that will revolutionise and advance patient care delivery. Our ambitious Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme will improve digital capabilities enabling staff to work more efficiently and productively, whilst providing the highest standards of patient experience, safety and clinical effectiveness.

We are looking for a passionate, committed and digitally focused leader to join us on our journey as CCIO for Pharmacy and Medicines. This role will work alongside a dynamic team which includes pharmacists, technicians and support staff, who together will collaboratively drive and champion innovation, enhancing the use of technology and information across our medicines and pharmacy workstreams.

We are looking for a candidate with strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build key relationships across our multi-site trust. If you feel you could support our mission to provide outstanding services, then we would love to hear from you.

The postholder will:
• Lead on the digital transformation of pharmacy services, ensuring the pharmacy digital strategy is aligned with Trust medicines and pharmacy services strategy and business plans.
• Lead the strategic development of informatics systems used in pharmacy and the Trust, including BI reporting systems, to support the medicines optimisation agenda.
• Be accountable for the operational management of pharmacy informatics systems.
• Plan the work programme for the pharmacy IT and informatics team.
• Develop the clinical workforce in relation to medicines and ensure certification for all team members is in place to ensure service needs are met.
• Be responsible for the co-ordination of pharmacy hardware, software and resource requirements.
• Provide specialist advice and guidance on the impact of new systems and changes to existing systems, data and reports.
• Ensure compliance with national directives and new regulatory and governance requirements relevant to portfolio.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf

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This advert closes on Monday 25 Mar 2024

Communication Accountable for ensuring the Pharmacy Department communicates effectively within the Trust and with external partners and agencies. Ensures medication errors and adverse drug reactions are reported and investigated. Ensure national and local safety alerts, warnings, advice and information about medicines are effectively handled by the Trust. Provide, receive and analyse highly complex and sensitive information at very senior level in the Trust. External relations Represent the Trust in pharmaceutical and other matters involving external organisations (Department of Health, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, Professional Royal Colleges such as Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health). Advise on pharmaceutical aspects of healthcare at home and on sharing care with primary, secondary and commercial care providers. Liaise with and contribute to national and international organisations with interests in paediatric drug therapy. Liaise with professional staff in other Trusts, health authorities, committees and bodies over matters concerning the Trust and pharmacy services or drug therapy. Analytical skills Interpret national legislation on all aspects of medicines and their management and provide expert advice to the Trust Board on pharmaceutical matters through the Medical Director, Chief Executive and Clinical Quality Assurance Committee. Advise the Trust on pharmacy and medicines law and ethics, medicines management and Optimisation. Advise the Trust on risk management issues relating to the use of medicines and pharmaceutical aspects of litigation involving the Trust. Planning and organising skills Planning of pharmaceutical services, taking into account national strategic direction for pharmaceutical services and the NHS in general; interpretation of broad national guidance and legislation; professional and scientific developments; new technologies; assessed needs of patients, pharmacy staff, Clinical Divisions, CCGs and NHSE plus other commissioning bodies Regional Health Authorities; Trust's business plans. Ensure active dissemination of information on medicines and that the availability of expertise from the Trust is maximised. Responsibility for patient/client care Actively involve pharmacy and its staff in the delivery of Clinical Governance, in accordance with agreed trust-wide strategy; including participation in Clinical Governance activities at ward, Divisional and trust level. Ensure all aspects of pharmacy service exceed any agreed national or trust minimum standard and that where this is not the case it is identified through the appropriate Trust committee. Implement and monitor national initiatives and directives, such as NICE guidance, NHSE Patient Safety Alerts, DoH guidance and MHRA drug recalls and alerts. Ensure errors, complaints and incidents are managed within the Trusts guidelines. For incidents relating to medicines the postholder has specific accountability to ensure monitoring and organisation learning take place. Ensure pharmacy services are equipped to pro-actively influence safe and cost-effective drug therapy in conjunction with clinical staff. This requires that practice is evidence based and staff appropriately trained. Pharmacy has a specific accountability for providing a risk assessment on the use of all unlicensed medicinal products. Ensure that the childrens views are accounted for in the planning and implementation of service delivery. Contribute to planning and delivery of medicines management training for doctors, nurses and other health care professionals. Act as a role model for other pharmacists. Keep up to date with developments in paediatric practice across the disciplines of medicine, surgery and neonatology. Maintain expert knowledge of developments in health service planning, finance, infection control and risk management. Provide expert clinical advice to Trust staff and to expert committees within the Trust and Regional Health Authority and to national and international agencies. Review national and local guidelines and determine the Trust response. Provide expert advice on adverse reactions, drug dose, safety, administration and formulation. Accountable for personal professional activity and ensuring maintenance of standards by other pharmacy staff. Responsibility for policy/service development Contribute to the development and review of the Trust strategic plans. Contribute to the development and implementation of national strategies including goals and standards, especially for paediatric pharmacy; the development andincreased availability of safe and effective medicines for children; medicines legislation; national service frameworks and patient safety. Contribute to developments in clinical pharmacy and education. Agree a local delivery plan/business plan with the medical director, Divisional Clinical Directors and Associate COOs which takes into account demand for services, trends, developments, resources and the Trust's strategic direction. Agree service level provision with Clinical directors and the Medical Director. Responsibility for financial and physical resources Accountable for ensuring that pharmacy services (procurement, supply, preparative and information) are cost-effective and provided within allocated budget. Budget holder for Drugs; Commercial Homecare and Medical Gases, responsible for ensuring the cost effective use of drug budget resources within the Trust and across the CCG interface; identifying pressures and cost improvements; agreeing budget with Clinical Divisions identifying and resolving pressures with local commissioners. Liaise with commissioners and Director of Finance or deputy and agree the annual budget for drugs. Agree the Trusts drug budget with Divisional Clinical Directors and the Director of Finance or deputy and liaise with the Pharmacy purchasing manager to monitor performance against budget. Participate in setting the pharmacy service budget. Be an authorised signatory for Alder Hey Childrens NHS FT in line with Standing Financial Instructions for drugs to the value of £100,000 other items/services to the value of £5,000 Provide direction and advice to the Head of Pharmacy, Consultant/Divisional Pharmacists and senior finance personnel in the analysis and annual review of the drug budget and budget setting processes. Develop and maintain links with the staff of other Trusts, purchasing authorities and contractors; develop contract income for the Trust and obtain maximum benefit from commercial contracts for medicines and related services Maximise the potential for income generation by the pharmacy service. Develop, implement and monitor commercial homecare contracts for medicines and related services to ensure that the Trust and its patients gain maximum benefit. Responsibility for human resources Liaise with the Human Resources director and external agencies over the strategy for training, recruitment and retention of professional pharmacy staff. Facilitate high quality teaching, training and dissemination of information, liaising with the Universities or other academic or teaching institutions. Foster a culture of lifelong learning, to include provision of pre and post-registration training, continuing professional education/development and vocational training of all pharmacy staff. Teaching Participate in the planning, organisation and delivery of teaching in paediatric pharmacy and pharmacotherapy locally, nationally and internationally. Teach and promote paediatric pharmacy and the concept of better medicines for children whenever possible. Training Ensure that pharmacy staff have appropriate training and education. Participate in Continuing Professional Development as required by the General Pharmaceutical Council of Great Britain. Contribute to planning and delivery of medicines management training for doctors, nurses and other health care professionals. Responsibility for information resources Accountable for electronic information systems in pharmacy, prescribing and medicines information. Provide reports on all aspects of medicines management to executive team and Board via the Drug and Therapeutics Committee, Clinical Quality Steering Group, Clinical Quality Assurance Committee. Responsibility for research and development Assist in the development and implementation of a Research and Development strategy in pharmacotherapy to maximise the Trust's potential. Support the development and delivery of the PMRU research agenda Strategic planning of pharmaceutical research taking into account local and national priorities and resources. Ensure the Pharmacy Department has an active and relevant research programme through the identification and leadership of research themes and funding resources Ensure all clinical trials involving medicines within the Trust are fully compliant with currently accepted best practice through controls Assurance and Medicines for Human Use (clinical trials) regulations. Responsible for directing the research activity of pharmacy staff and ensuring that results are disseminated and applied. Undertake personal research collaborating with other Trust staff, local, national and international partners. Support the research activity of other professionals in the Trust and provide expert advice on the design and conduct of research involving medicines. Provide expert advice on legal, technical and indemnity issues of drug trials or research. Develop audit processes within the pharmacy service to ensure that legal, professional and service requirements are met. Provide expert advice to the Clinical Audit department on medicines management and assist in ensuring that audit recommendations are implemented.

To attend and participate in the NHSE North West Office Schools Board, Heads of School meetings and other NHSE meetings as required. This will include the sharing of best practice from within the School, to facilitate the effective use of resources and support a collaborative approach to improving the delivery of education and training across the region. You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents. Secondments Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only,agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting theapplication.

Role summary Lead and manage the nursing and Clinical governance elements of the Trusts business, in line with the Trust strategy. Work closely with the Director of Nursing and Governance in the co-ordination and delivery of services in accordance with the Trusts strategic objectives. Lead and support the work to deliver patient and family centred care. Lead and support the work to deliver the trust Quality Sub Strategy. Lead and support the work to deliver the safeguarding agenda Support the work to deliver IPC framework To ensure there are comprehensive and effective risk management arrangements Trust wide to assure the Board that risks are identified and controlled. Act as deputy for the Director of Nursing and Clinical Governance on all aspects of nursing and governance Act as nursing lead for undergraduate and post graduate programmes To lead on the quality and safety agenda Trust-wide, ensuring adherence to national and local policy and legislation, ensuring the effective management of, and learning from, complaints, claims and litigation within the Trust. To be an active member of the Trusts committees and sub committees Key responsibilities Clinical Responsibilities Provide strong professional leadership and accountability by personal example to support the development and implementation of service improvement strategies to improve patient experience, safety and efficiency. Fundamental to this role is to lead the professions in showing dignity, respect and care for patients, ensuring the Trust is the hospital of choice for patients and commissioners. Ensure that strategies are in place to enhance the patients experience in line with local and national agendas, working in partnership with others to develop, implement and evaluate direction, policies and strategies. Deliver strong professional leadership with the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills to enable and empower staff to develop best practice in the delivery of high quality patient care. Provide managerial guidance, leadership and support to the Senior Nurses and Nurses in Advanced Roles, ensuring patient care is of a high standard. Foster and develop a culture within the Trust that values continuing professional development and strives for excellence in the delivery of patient care. Ensure all appropriate support and action is taken to enhance the environment of care and the quality of care provided for patients and family members. Provide professional and clinical advice to the complaints process and meet patients and family members when necessary to deal with complaints face to face. Establish systems that assure accurate defensible patient focused nursing documentation and act as a lead for implementation Act as Trust Lead for Health Promotion ensuring the Trusts contribution to health education and illness prevention is optimised Lead on the review of patient pathways from a nursing perspective reviewing practice and identifying areas to reduce length of stay whilst improving discharge planning. Work clinically to measure and assess standards, providing leadership by example. Provide operational support to the Director of Nursing and Governance for Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults professionally supporting the Trusts Designated Nurse for Safeguarding and Mental Health issues attending relevant meetings as requested by the Director of Nursing and feeding back to all relevant staff. Support the Director of Nursing and Governance in ensuring the Quality Schedule and CQUINS are on target and can be delivered. Lead on the development of a Clinical Quality Patient Safety Strategy working with the Divisional Nurse Directors and wider teams. Lead on the six monthly staffing report for Trust Board. With other members of the senior management team take collective responsibility for ensuring high performance of the Trust and the delivery of corporate objectives. In particular support the delivery of local and national performance targets and standards within budget and resource availability, through the effective leadership of senior nursing, governance teams and allied health professionals. Risk Management Strategy and Systems Develop and maintain the Trusts risk management strategy, policy and systems Liaise with services and disseminate information in respect of good risk management practice, to include complaints and claims and other areas of compliance Ensure that all risk registers are up to date and reflect the key risks of the Trust in collaboration with the Trust corporate secretary Work with the divisions to ensure business plans take account of key risks Continually improve incident management arrangements and improve service delivery based on lessons learned Participate in internal reviews of Serious and Untoward Incidents (SUIs), applying root cause analysis methodology Ensure that a robust process exists for STEIS reporting and that action is taken to address issues that have caused a STEIS report to be submitted Ensure a robust process for reporting to the National Patient Safety Agency and ensure that the root causes of incidents are dealt with Prepare and present governance reports to the Board and relevant committees Safety and Security Lead Ensure robust arrangements are in place for the management of LSMS and security Trust wide Ensure robust fire management arrangements are in place Trust wide to protect people and assets Ensure that there are robust management arrangements in place for the management of medical devices Trust wide Ensure the team works with the Director of Operations and Strategy to lead on emergency planning and business continuity plans and that procedures are fit for purpose, tested and responsive, and meet statutory and NHS requirements To be responsible for ensuring the Trusts compliance with relevant health and safety regulations Complaints, Claims and Litigation Manage the Patient Experience Team and ensure that all complaints are managed within the required timescales Identify trends from complaints, comments and enquiries and use these to learn lessons and plan services for the future Liaise accordingly with the Trusts comprehensive legal service, managing the budget and be the central point for access to legal advice across the Trust In conjunction with the Trusts legal advisers, provide advice and support to senior clinicians and staff across the Trust on legal matters and establish and maintain effective communication links with individuals when dealing with complex matters. Education Responsibilities Work in conjunction with the Training and Education Department to develop and maintain dynamic learning environments that are fit for purpose in line with quality assurance guidelines and any other external regulatory bodies and which ensure the Trust meets its responsibilities to provide clinical experience and mentor support for pre and post registration education for nurses. Act as nursing lead for undergraduate and post graduate programmes Provide mentorship/clinical supervision/coaching to colleagues (nursing and non-nursing) to enable their professional development. Encourage involvement in nursing research in the Trust and the dissemination of good practice locally, nationally and internationally. Drive the development of research and nursing alongside the Research Manager. Lead the nursing education priorities. Professional Responsibilities To have clinical lead responsibility for equality and diversity initiatives Adhere to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Conduct and maintain an active PIN number. Provide professional support to the Senior Nurses leading clinical care within the Divisions, taking responsibility for standards of care and effective use of financial and other resources, this will include the bed management function. Working with Divisional teams, review and address concerns relating to professional practice and attitudes, as identified by the Patient Experience Team, the Care Quality Commission or the Ombudsman, national audits and surveys addressing the concerns and implementing change as necessary with the relevant clinical teams Role model behaviours expected to attain high standards of infection prevention and control Hold relevant service budgets and take responsibility for managing such budgets to ensure that planned, managed and balanced budgets are maintained Take responsibility for own personal development and take an active part in learning opportunities Take part in the out of hours, on call rota for the hospital on a regular basis, supporting the bleep holder in the hospital to ensure effective management decisions. Any other duties, which are deemed appropriate to the grade of the post as required by the Trust.