Pharmacy Operations Manager
The closing date is 04 May 2026
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Pharmacy Operational Manager to provide senior leadership across NHFT pharmacy services, with a key focus on secure and specialist care. This strategic role is responsible for the operational management, governance, workforce leadership and continuous improvement of pharmacy services across multiple sites.
Working closely with the Deputy Chief Pharmacist – Specialist and Secured and the Governance and Assurance Pharmacist, you will act as the professional and operational lead for pharmacy technicians, ensuring services are safe, compliant, efficient and responsive to patient and service needs.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic and operational leadership for pharmacy services
- Lead medicines governance, risk management, audits and compliance
- Manage pharmacy workforce planning, recruitment, performance and development
- Oversee medicines distribution, stock control and Controlled Drugs governance
- Support service redesign, transformation and Quality Improvement initiatives
- Monitor medicines usage and expenditure, identifying efficiencies
- Represent pharmacy services at Trust-wide and external forums
About us
NHFT is an NHS Community and Mental Health Foundation Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in hospital settings and in the community. We provide over 200 services across the county, as well as some specialist services in bordering and nearby counties. We work together with our partners to ensure that everyone who comes through our doors receives compassionate, person‑centred care, regardless of their background or circumstances.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning, to improve the care and safety of our patients and colleagues. We have achieved our ‘outstanding’ rating by encouraging opportunity, innovation, development and growth across our workforce.
At NHFT we believe that work should be rewarded in every sense, which is why we are proud to be an accredited living wage employer.
Qualifications
- Formal management training or equivalent experience
- Advanced technical/ACT qualification (Desirable)
Knowledge & Skills
- Operational leadership across services/sites
- Medicines governance & SOP oversight
- Budget & cost improvement involvement
- QI methodologies application
- Strategic-to-operational leadership
- Senior staff leadership & motivation
- Conflict & performance management
- Values-based leadership
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
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