Clinical Steward for Medicines Optimisation
NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board
Stewardship is a collaborative and strategic approach to healthcare leadership that emphasises shared responsibility for optimising resources, improving population health outcomes, and tackling health inequalities. This model fosters integration and innovation by aligning care delivery with system-wide goals, ensuring a patient-centred and value-based approach.
As a steward, the individual is expected to embody these principles by:
1. Leading collaboratively: Driving integration across sectors and fostering collective accountability by convening multi-agency stakeholders to address shared challenges. Stewards should actively lead discussions, mediate between parties, and create unified action plans.
2. Championing data-driven insights: Using analytics and evidence to inform clinical and operational decisions that enhance patient care and reduce disparities. Examples include developing targeted interventions using population health data or designing risk stratification tools.
3. Engaging with stakeholders: Building and maintaining robust relationships across health and care systems to ensure alignment with shared objectives and priorities. This involves regular communication with patient groups, clinical leads, and external agencies.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as part of the senior leadership team of the NHS Norfolk and Waveney ICB Medicines Optimisation Team, within the Medical Directorate. The Medicines Optimisation team is structured in four workstream Pillars working across the ICB geography - Clinical Experience & Delivery, Interface & Formulary, Population Health & Data Analysis, and Quality & Safety.
This role serves as a key driver for implementing quality and safety focused best value medicines optimisation within integrated care pathways, supporting the ICS's mission to reduce inequalities and improve patient outcomes. The position facilitates collaboration across sectors, aligning local initiatives with national frameworks such as Core20PLUS5 and the NHS Long Term Plan. By providing leadership and championing evidence-based strategies, this role supports the delivery of quality and safety focused best value use of medicines and fosters a culture of continuous improvement.
The post holder will support the Associate Director of Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation in providing safe and cost-effective use of medicines across both primary and secondary care and delivering the QIPP agenda.
About us
Health and care services in Norfolk and Waveney are working closely together to further improve services and provide more joined-up care for local people. In Norfolk and Waveney, we have already achieved a lot by working in partnership to improve health and care outcomes. These changes have been made possible by different organisations - NHS hospitals, GPs, mental health and community health services, local councils, care homes and social workers, voluntary and community organisations and others - joining forces to agree and plan for local people's needs.
Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System (ICS) includes a statutory Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), and an Integrated Care Board (ICB) called NHS Norfolk and Waveney. This partnership and organisation dedicated to making sure that organisations work together for the benefit of our residents, staff and communities is an important step change, helping to create positive differences to local people and joining up health and social care. This is the culmination of many years of effort to build partnership working across the NHS, local authorities, the third sector and patient groups.
Job responsibilities
1. Maintain high level and constructive relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders including hospital trust clinical and managerial staff, but also NSFT, primary care and community provider staff.
2. Provide Clinical leadership to the Medicines Optimisation Team & ICS committees, such as the Therapeutics Advisory Group with specialist advice as required.
3. Provide strategic clinical leadership for Medicines Optimisation within service development and implementation, ensuring alignment with ICS ambitions.
4. Remain aware of national, regional and local policies, guidelines and commissioning decisions relating to Medicines Optimisation.
5. Chair the bi-monthly Prescribing Leads Meetings.
6. Present information and issues, explaining highly complex clinical issues, to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders on a range of topics.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Clinical or Care qualified with a current licence to practise or included on a relevant professional register, currently working within N&W. Registered Prescriber with at least 5 years' prescribing experience.
Experience
* Demonstrable evidence of delivering projects or programmes of work that impact Medicines Optimisation.
* Currently working in the N&W ICS.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board
AD of Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation
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