Health and Community Services Pharmacy Staff (FOI)

​​​​​Request

Please advise what the staffing levels in Health and Community Services (HCS) Pharmacy Department would look like if the department were fully staffed?  This to include any positions which may be outside the hospital premises but fall under that department's responsibility; in such cases please indicate that they are external.

A

Pease advise how many positions there would be in each job title. 

B

Please supply a full job description for each job title, including that of Chief Pharmacist and that of the current and / or future administrative person which is being advertised and include their grades.

C

P​lease advise how many of these jobs are currently in post (substantive), how many are agency staff and how many are currently being actively advertised?

D

Please also advise how many posts have been recruited for and are awaiting a start date?

E

Are any staff employed by HCS Pharmacy working from home or remotely?

Response

A to D

Details of posts that sit in the Health and Community Services (HCS) Pharmacy Department, including number of posts, number of substantive staff, agency cover and vacancies by post title, as well as details of posts that are being recruited to and those which have been recruited to and are awaiting start dates, are shown in the attached table.

Health and Community Services Pharmacy Staffing Position.pdf

Job descriptions are attached. These include pay grade information. As noted in a Freedom of Information response published to www.gov.je in July 2024, the Chief Pharmacist role is being reviewed as part of the Minister for Health and Social Services’ plans for the division of strategic and operational roles in the wider Healthcare setting. For this reason, the Chief Pharmacist’s job description is not currently available.

Pharmacy job descriptions.pdf​

E

There are no staff working from home or remotely. This would only be agreed for very specific circumstances such as Covid, Storm Ciaran and such.