You will be appointed to NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB. Your base will be the ICB Headquarters in Wellington, Shropshire. NHS STW operates a hybrid working arrangement where you will be required to work from the office base for part of your working week, based on your contracted number of hours. Travel may also be necessary across other sites and clinical settings as appropriate, therefore you must have the ability to meet the travel needs of the post. Our ICB Pharmacists will work with multiple providers across the system, and will be responsible for providing medicines optimisation support to the practices we serve, developing and implementing medicines optimisation projects for implementation within each practice, delivering savings and improving the quality of medicines use. The post holder will be asked to support delivery of the national medicines optimisation opportunities and medicines value priorities for the system. The role will entail supervising and line managing other team members as appropriate, notably Lead Pharmacy Technicians/project leads. There will also be a requirement to provide education and training to other health professionals, system partners and care settings as required. The job responsibilities outlined below should be read in conjunction with the full job description included within this advert. To support the implementation, delivery, and monitoring of the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICS Medicines and Pharmacy strategy to: - improve health outcomes; - reduce avoidable harm; - improve population health and reduce health inequalities - avoid waste, enhance productivity and value for money promoting sustainability To provide expert advice on matters relating to medicines optimisation and prescribing To support NHS STW commitment to commissioning safe and effective services that meet the needs of the local population, ensuring that pathways in which medicines are used deliver cost-effective use of resources, reduced risks associated with medicines use, and improved patient outcomes and experience. To support system wide integration and collaboration, working with system pharmacy colleagues and wider health and care professionals to ensure that medicines practice in health and care delivery settings are joined up. To improve the health of the population by optimising the use of medicines through: - promoting the safe, evidence-based and cost-effective use of medicines; - supporting implementation of the shared system formulary - providing up to date, unbiased information about medicines, treatments and care pathways; - supporting practitioners and patients to make the best use of medicines; - to support the implementation of national guidance on the use of medicines (NICE appraisals and quality prescribing targets). - minimising the harm caused by medicines; - developing local guidelines and care pathways to optimise the use of medicines; - supporting other health and care providers to deliver medicines optimisation in a way that is high quality, efficient, safe, well led, timely and responsive, effective and equitable. To support the development, implementation, delivery and reporting of the annual Medicines Optimisation cost improvement programme (CIP), working collaboratively across the ICB to influence and monitor prescribing costs, promote cost effective prescribing and minimise wastage of medicines.