Job summary
NHS Sussex
Integrated Care Board (ICB) are responsible for the planning and commissioning
of health care services for the local area. We are able to work at scale across
Sussex to be more effective and efficient by streamlining processes, avoiding
duplication and delivering consistency of quality across a larger area. The ICB
covers an area of over 2 million people and has an annual financial spend of
over £2.95 billion. There is a single Chief Executive Officer and Executive
Team. As functions across Sussex are working towards becoming integrated, staff
working within the ICB are expected to have strong working links across the Sussex
Health and Care Integrated Care System (ICS).
NHS Sussex ICB
Medicines Optimisation Team is ambitious and forward thinking, striving to
ensure that the patient is always at the heart of everything we do. The team,
as part of the shared management team across Sussex, is responsible for
providing strategic and operational level advice and support in all matters
regarding prescribing and Medicines Optimisation (MO). The team works to
address MO and service development issues in partnership with other
organisations across all local health and social care interfaces
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced
pharmacist leader who is interested in a role that involves strategic
leadership, innovation, operational delivery, partnership working and people
development . This is an exciting opportunity to provide expert strategic
leadership in the delivery of the Sussex Primary Care Medicines Optimisation
Quality Improvement (QI) programme.
The
successful candidate will lead on QI programme supporting design and
implementation of QI development and delivery of the MO priorities to improve
population health outcomes. The post holder will work closely with senior
leaders across the ICS and all pharmacy sectors from each of the three places
in Sussex. Working to ensure alignment and equity in the MO support across Sussex
whilst not losing sight of the place -based needs.
The post
holder will be expected to work with a high degree of autonomy, accountability,
and responsibility to build relationships across Sussex. They will report
directly to the Associate Director for Medicines Optimisation and work closely
with the Lead Strategic Pharmacy Technician for Quality Improvement.
About us
NHS Sussex ICB recognises the positive value
of diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination and welcomes applications from people of diverse backgrounds and identities. We
particularly welcome applications from disabled and ethnically diverse candidates as these staff groups are currently
under-represented throughout our organisation currently. We have also made a positive commitment to employing people from the Armed Forces Community,
We are also committed to enabling team members
to work in an agile, more flexible way, recognising that this will lead to more
effective and efficient ways of working. We will empower our people to work
where, when, and how they choose with minimum constraints to optimise
performance and delivery of results. Smarter working is not just related to
working from different locations or at different times. It is about gaining the
benefit of utilising technology to change work practices and to work
differently which should increase the effectiveness of the service and deliver
benefits to ICB business.
NHS Sussex has committed to achieving Net Zero
Carbon emissions by 2045. As a member of staff you will be encouraged and
supported to implement new ways of working that will help us achieve that goal.
Working
for us - Sussex Health and Care (ics.nhs.uk)
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post
holder will be expected to work with a high degree of autonomy, accountability,
and responsibility to build relationships across Sussex. They will report
directly to the Associate Director for Medicines Optimisation and work closely
with the Lead Strategic Pharmacy Technician for Quality Improvement.
All
individuals have an identified base and will be able to work agilely as part of
the organisations Smarter Working programme. This may include, but is not
limited to; home, and ICB office working as appropriate, though the post holder
will be expected to be placedat either Lewes, Worthing, Lewes and Brighton.
For an
informal chat please contact Chirag Patel (07917 577193 or chiragpatel4@nhs.net) or Neveen Sorial (07917 303113 or neveen.sorial@nhs.net)
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post
holder will be expected to work with a high degree of autonomy, accountability,
and responsibility to build relationships across Sussex. They will report
directly to the Associate Director for Medicines Optimisation and work closely
with the Lead Strategic Pharmacy Technician for Quality Improvement.
All
individuals have an identified base and will be able to work agilely as part of
the organisations Smarter Working programme. This may include, but is not
limited to; home, and ICB office working as appropriate, though the post holder
will be expected to be placedat either Lewes, Worthing, Lewes and Brighton.
For an
informal chat please contact Chirag Patel (07917 577193 or chiragpatel4@nhs.net) or Neveen Sorial (07917 303113 or neveen.sorial@nhs.net)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm in pharmacy (or equivalent prior to
- 2002)
- Registered pharmacist with the General
- Pharmaceutical Council
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Member of a relevant professional body
Experience
Essential
- Proven and significant leadership experience
- Experience in a primary care prescribing/
- Medicines Management Advisory role
- Experience of multidisciplinary working
- Experience of working in at least one other pharmacy sector
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
- Proven Board level experience or equivalent of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a
- politically sensitive and complex environment
- Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment
- Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring staff to work together to achieve a common objective
- Experience of managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders.
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments
- Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget including understanding of setting and monitoring of prescribing budgets
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of critical appraisal in evidence based medicine
- Ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context like the NHS
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight and often changing deadlines
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management or equivalent
- Ability to delegate effectively
- Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
- Advanced Word, Excel, Outlook and email communication skills
Other
Essential
- Significant evidence of continued professional development
- Must be able to travel within Sussex, and neighbouring areas if required
- Post holder will be expected to work agilely as part of the organisations Smarter Working programme. This may include, but is not limited to; home, GP practices and CCG office working as appropriate.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm in pharmacy (or equivalent prior to
- 2002)
- Registered pharmacist with the General
- Pharmaceutical Council
- Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Member of a relevant professional body
Experience
Essential
- Proven and significant leadership experience
- Experience in a primary care prescribing/
- Medicines Management Advisory role
- Experience of multidisciplinary working
- Experience of working in at least one other pharmacy sector
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
- Proven Board level experience or equivalent of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a
- politically sensitive and complex environment
- Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment
- Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring staff to work together to achieve a common objective
- Experience of managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders.
- Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments
- Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget including understanding of setting and monitoring of prescribing budgets
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of critical appraisal in evidence based medicine
- Ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context like the NHS
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight and often changing deadlines
- Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management or equivalent
- Ability to delegate effectively
- Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required
- Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
- Advanced Word, Excel, Outlook and email communication skills
Other
Essential
- Significant evidence of continued professional development
- Must be able to travel within Sussex, and neighbouring areas if required
- Post holder will be expected to work agilely as part of the organisations Smarter Working programme. This may include, but is not limited to; home, GP practices and CCG office working as appropriate.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
