Chief Pharmacist

The Chief Pharmacist manages the Pharmacy Services across the Health Services Authority, providing strategic and operational direction and supervising all pharmacy clinical staff.

Primary Responsibilities: The successful candidate provides strategic and operational leadership for the pharmacy services across the Health Services Authority, including direct management of pharmacy clinical staff and full accountability for the Pharmacy budget, ensuring effective financial control, cost-effective procurement, and appropriate medicines use. The role oversees the safe and efficient delivery of pharmaceutical care across hospitals and district health centers, ensuring compliance with legislation, professional standards, quality control, and health and safety requirements. The successful candidate responsibilities include procurement, inventory control, storage, and distribution of non-pharmaceutical supplies; high-volume local and overseas purchasing; supply chain planning; vendor and contract management; emergency and hurricane preparedness; regulatory compliance; performance management; reporting; and continuous improvement initiatives to ensure continuity of supply, cost control, and service excellence.

Qualifications and Experience: The successful candidate must possess a Bachelor of Pharmacy or equivalent. Post-graduate Diploma, Pharmacy related Masters and/or additional management or financial degree/accredited studies would be an asset. The candidate should have at least five (5) years managerial experience of a department with at least fifteen (15) staff. Technical expertise in drug information, sterile and non-sterile manufacturing and in the operation of a busy outpatient dispensary in a hospital is required. The candidate should also have experience in the preparation of an output budget and in the implementation of pharmaceutical legislation. Must have at least five (5) years’ experience as a qualified pharmacist. This experience must have been gained in both hospital and retail (community) settings