Employer: NHS Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Sir John Robinson House
Town: Arnold, Nottingham
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 30/09/2024 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Are you looking for a new challenge and to develop your pharmacy career? Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB are seeking to employ a Polypharmacy Programme Lead Pharmacist to drive implementation and development of system-wide projects to address problematic polypharmacy.
This fixed-term post will be responsible for providing medicines optimisation professional expertise to develop, plan, co-ordinate and manage the ICS polypharmacy programme, ensuring implementation is both successful and sustained.
Main duties of the job
This role will be shaped by the ICS aims and objectives and the successful post holder will work closely with all members of the ICB Medicines Optimisation Team, pharmacy teams and a wide range of stakeholders at all levels within the wider ICS health and social care community.
You will be required to work collaboratively, utilising a range of leadership skills and attributes to deliver outcomes to make a real difference to the lives of the local population. A clear understanding of the challenges facing Health and Social Care systems will be essential, as will experience and knowledge of how to drive system improvements.
The post holder will have experience of working with all partner organisations in the ICS, and in delivering complex change programmes. They will work with and be directed by the ICB polypharmacy programme Senior Pharmacist lead, but will also support the ICB Chief Pharmacist and Senior Medicines Optimisation team to implement and deliver aspects of the Medicines Optimisation Strategy for the ICS, where the objectives are aligned to the work in the polypharmacy programme.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will:
1. Develop actionable planning documentation and co-ordinate implementation that will drive best practice and quality improvements through multi-disciplinary and partnership working, across the ICS.
2. Interpret highly complex facts and use their expertise in programme management to achieve project deliverables whilst ensuring the quality of care for patients is maintained.
3. Generate improvement opportunities, use their previous experience to influence teams to work in new ways and be able to effectively communicate with staff at all levels across stakeholder organisations.
4. When needed, challenge stakeholders about delivery of tasks and hold to account where agreed performance targets have not been met.
5. Work within established governance processes, managed by the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICS Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy Board (NNICS MOPB).
6. Demonstrate a methodical and structured approach along with utilisation of project management skills to manage all aspects of the full project lifecycle.
Person specification
Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, Values
* Master’s degree in pharmacy or equivalent
* Pharmacist registered with the GPhC
* Use of project management methods to plan and deliver programmes of work
* Knowledge and experience of the pharmacy processes across hospital, primary care and community pharmacy
* An appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHSE, provider and commissioning organisations
* Understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
* Ability to manage and facilitate improvement system-wide.
* Ability to work with and influence a wide range of health and social care stakeholders across differing agendas
* Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
* Ability to develop and implement plans and can demonstrate a disciplined approach to setting and achieving objectives.
* Ability to draw quantitative and qualitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner.
* Embraces change and views it as an opportunity to learn and develop
* Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
* Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same. Evidence of post-qualifying and continuing professional development.
Our communities are from all walks of life, so we are too. Here at NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB, we are not all the same. The diversity of our workforce gives us strength by providing unique first-hand experiences and voices to draw upon. We believe that to deliver high-quality services, we need to represent all the communities we serve.
Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. Please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any specific access needs at any stage of the process.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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