Senior Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist

Job summary

We are looking to appoint an experienced pharmacist with drive and aptitude to become part of a dynamic and passionate ICB Medicines Optimisation Team. The post is a fixed term contract, for 18 months as maternity leave cover, and offers a unique opportunity to enhance your skills of primary care and commissioning experience.

We are committed to developing and training our staff and you will work in a supportive environment with training opportunities, to build on your skills and develop your expertise.

This post offers an individual the opportunity to gain senior strategic skills within the areas of work linked to medicines governance oversight, quality improvement and support the safe use of medicines across the ICB . This includes supporting the Controlled Drugs Accountable Officer and participation in medicines incidents reviews. In addition the role will support the oversight of the Medicines Safety Officers and anti- microbial work programmes .

The post manages a small team of pharmacists and also works jointly to provide oversight of primary care prescribing functions delivered to the Mid Nottinghamshire locality area.

You will be supported in any ongoing studies relevant to the role.

Main duties of the job

On behalf of the ICB, and at PBP or PCN level(s) either collectively or individually:

Contribute to the management of clinical, financial and corporate risks and patient safety issues relating to medicines use.

Implement the management of appropriate strategies for clinical governance and controls assurance for the medicines optimisation functions in collaboration with other directorates, partners, and local stakeholders.

Advise on medicines related safety and governance liaising with clinicians, managers, multidisciplinary teams, executive leads, and appropriate external agencies and networks as required.

Co-operate with analysis of medicines investigations and LeDeR reviews, support follow up of remedial action and that lessons learned are captured and disseminated locally.

Provide highly specialised advice on medicines use and prescribing to improve patient care and outcomes. This includes advice to investigations into GPs, other non-medical prescribers, health and social care staff.

Support the delivery and oversight of the anti-microbial resistance strategy linking to regional and national groups where required.

Support the safe management and delivery of statutory functions linked to Controlled drugs .

About us

NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. We were formed with the intention to improve population health and collaborate with local partners (NHS, Local Authority and Third Sector) to deliver high quality health and social care provision to our local population.

We have accountability for the system delivery of the ICS' priorities such as improving outcomes in population health and healthcare, tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access, enhancing productivity and value for money, and helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.

We seek to improve the patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer access and choice to our patients. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it's important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally. In conjunction, with patient experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing significant financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (ICS 5-year strategic plan).

The ambitions are great, but so are the opportunities to be part of our new and evolving organisation, to make positive impactful change to the health and social care agenda across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.