Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 7 months (fixed term until 31st march 2027)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 265-8186817-CSS-A
- Employer
- Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospitals of Northamptonshire
- Town
- Northampton
- Salary
- £49,387 - £56,515 per annum / pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Project Manager for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Resistance
Band 7
Job overview
We are very excited to be able to offer a unique opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to combine an interest in improving patient care with supporting the delivery of a portfolio of improvement projects relating to antimicrobial use across Leicestershire and Northamptonshire integrated care systems.
This position may suit a registered pharmacy, nursing or medical professional with an interest in project management in Antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial stewardship.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will have the pivotal responsibility of developing and delivering leadership and governance across Northamptonshire and Leicestershire.
The role will include:
- Developing close working relationships with all stakeholders to establish foundation systems to enable the project to progress across all sites
- Developing reporting mechanisms for the project outcomes
- Reviewing current services and make recommendations for development
- Managing complex change programmes and technology-enabled service re-design.
The post holder will ensure that they work within the agreed operational and governance processes within Pharmacy, with a focus on seeking opportunities for continual improvement.
The post is fixed term until March 2027 – secondments will be considered. Whilst the host organisation is expected to be Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust this is open to negotiation.
Working for our organisation
Please submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close adverts once sufficient applications have been received.
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University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) brings together Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As a group, we are committed to improving services for our communities through collaboration, modernising care delivery and striving for excellence. Working together enables us to share expertise, strengthen services and create greater opportunities, and there may be a requirement to work across sites depending on service needs.
Our Excellence Values are Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage. UHN welcomes applications from all backgrounds and is committed to an inclusive working environment. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and hold the Gold Award under the Employer Recognition Scheme. Candidates who identify as members of the Armed Forces community and meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the Shortlisting Criteria section of the document.
Main duties and responsibilities:
· Manages the overall delivery of the AMR project across Northamptonshire & LLR
· Promote an integrated approach to implementation and improvement of antimicrobial pathways
· Create and deliver complex project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet the changing needs and requirements of the project
· Ensure benefits identification and management processes are integral to the management of projects
· To identify, plan and manage project resources to meet all key milestones and assign responsibilities accordingly.
· Identify risks and issues, reporting and responding to them in an appropriate manner through the UHN Antimicrobial Steering Group, Northamptonshire Antimicrobial Optimisation Group, Integrated Medicines Optimisation Committee and escalating as required. This includes the development of contingency plans.
· Understand and mitigate complex issues that arise across various workstreams
· Ensure project documents are complete, current, and appropriately stored. Documentation should include new information flows, system processes and business practices. Ensure reporting is developed for governance
· Work closely with relevant stakeholders with effectiveness and efficiency to enable the project(s) to be implemented on time and within budget. Work with the Pharmacy Managers to manage budgets at a project / module level.
· Ensuring that ‘business as usual’ is maintained during the transition to new systems, and that any changes are effectively integrated into the procedures within clinical areas.
· Interpret national guidelines and policies, and communicate and ensure alignment with project delivery
· Identify project resources required to successfully deliver change within the project and liaise with relevant managers to ensure availability and allocation
· Manages project auditing and ensure lessons learned are recorded and enforced for best practice
· Ensure adequate process analysis and design for new ways of working is undertaken with the involvement of stakeholders
· Ensure stakeholder agreement to benefits and changes to ways of working
· Ensure that all staff affected by the project receive adequate training in new systems or new ways of working
· Ensure adequate SOPs are in the place to support staff training
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication
- Ability to work under pressure
- Computer skills, eg databases
- Ability to work alone and as a team member
- Time management
- Emotionally intelligent, strong insight and ability to establish credibility quickly and build strong relationships with all levels of internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to engage and drive tangible outcomes from a wide variety of team members and stakeholders
Desirable criteria
- Qualified practitioner level of a recognised project or change management methodology(eg PRINCE 2 )
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to engage and drive tangible outcomes from a wide variety of team members and stakeholders
- Good clinical knowledge of Antimicrobial use
- Experience of project and change management
- Undertaken service improvement / quality improvement projects / audits / research projects
- Knowledge and experience of hospital or related clinical working practices and clinical systems, gained by working in the NHS
Educations, Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional registration with GPhC, NMC, GMC
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of education, training or experience
Desirable criteria
- Independent prescriber
- Qualified at Practitioner level of a recognised project or change management methodology (PRINCE2, Agile, LEAN)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Russell Parsons
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01536493147
- Additional information
Rachel Westwood, Associate Chief Pharmacist
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