Staff structure changed to strengthen Society’s roles
Further changes to the staff structure of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society have been announced.
Following its decision last year to reorganise into a body based on seven
staff directorates, the Society has now created several new senior posts “to
strengthen the integrated roles of the Society as a modern regulatory
body and professional organisation for pharmacy”. (Recruitment
advertisements, pp A34–36.)
The new structure (PDF 60K) is part of the Council’s reform of the Society
and its ways of working. Early last year, the Council asked the Secretary
and Registrar to come forward with proposals
for a new structure that
would support the Society’s operations in line with best management
practice. As a result, it was decided to increase the number of directorates
from five to seven, with three new director posts to be filled (PJ, 31
May 2003, p772).
In July last year, the Council set objectives and criteria for developing
a new structure for the Council and these were used in the review of
the staff structure. As a result, there has been reorganisation of senior
posts within four of the new directorates — Education and Registration,
Fitness to Practise and Legal Affairs, Practice and Quality Improvement,
and Corporate and Strategic Development. The directorates of Finance
and Resource and Public Affairs and Communications will not change at
present, and the future structure of the Publications Directorate is
to be considered separately by the Council.
Recommendations for the staff structure of the Scottish Department and
Welsh Executive will be brought forward after a detailed review of their
role and remit in the light of developing devolution.
In those directorates undergoing restructuring, the new direct report
structure is as follows:
Education and Registration
• Head of education (to manage higher education and contiuning professional
development)
• Head of preregistration (managing adjudication)
• Head of registration
• Head of support staff regulation
Fitness to Practise and Legal Affairs
• Chief inspector
• Head of fitness to practise and advisory services (dealing with impairment
by reasons of ill-health)
• Head of investigation (handling complaints screening)
• Head of professional conduct (managing disciplinary processes)
• Legal adviser
• Head of animal medicines inspectorate
Practice and Quality Improvement
• Head of practice (taking forward practice development)
• Head of professional ethics (developing professional ethics and values)
• Head of quality improvement (supporting quality improvement in the
profession)
• Head of professional leadership (supporting the profession’s
development)
Corporate and Strategic Development
• Head of human resources
• Head of central administration
• Head of corporate governance (managing the development of the organisational
framework)
• Head of research and development
• Head of policy development
• Chief scientist
Ann Lewis, the Society’s Secretary and Registrar, said: “I
am pleased that we have made such good progress in building our staff
teams. Our new structures have been put in place to make us as effective
as possible in our work of implementing the Council’s policies
and decisions for the profession.”
She added: “We are all determined to achieve more joined up ways
of working
so that we make the most of the great expertise and skills at all levels
within our
organisation.
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