Job summary
A great opportunity has arisen for a motivated pharmacist to join the fabulous NEL ICB Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation team. The team works as a multi-disciplinary group of individuals, who operate with a broad range of skills and experience. We are key enablersfor collaboration and integration across all health and social care partners in the NEL Integrated Care System. As a team player you will be supported to fully commit to this way of working, especially with regards to transformational work with medicines and pharmacy.
Main duties of the job
This is a rare and exciting role for an experienced Medication Safety pharmacist to work at a very senior and expert level across North East London. The post holder will have the opportunity to identify and deliver their vision for medication safety within the ICB and collaboratively with all system partners, including primary and secondary care providers.
We are looking for someone with vision, excellent clinical, leadership and research skills and an ability to work with complex relationships. This will be a Consultant Pharmacist post, but we will consider applicants who are demonstrably working towards Consultant-level accreditation.
About us
NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formed on 1 July 2022.
We are an exciting new organisation putting the needs of communities at the heart of our commissioning arrangements.
We are working with local people and partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector in innovative ways to improve health and wellbeing for all our communities. Our key priority in the next year will be to develop closer integrated and collaborative ways of working with all our partners to implement our Out of Hospital Strategy.
We can only do this with great staff who are encouraged and supported, which is why we invest in them, listen to them, make sure we are representative of our populations and that we foster their health and wellbeing.
Please note that all vacancies will be subject to a 6 months' probation period in line with the Probation Policy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key responsibilities of the post:
- To promote the safe use of medicines across North East London (NEL), developing and leading the medicines and prescribing safety and quality programmes for NEL, including medicines incident reporting, all relevant national programmes and workstreams and managing the ICB medicines risk register
- To lead the NEL Medicines Safety & Quality Group (MSQG) in developing a compelling vision and strategy for medicines safety which is informed by the needs of our local population and national and international best practice
- To work in partnership with Medicines Safety Officers and key clinical and care leads across NEL Integrated Care System, providing system leadership, expert knowledge, skills and strategies to support medication without harm across all organisations and develop an open culture of sharing and learning
- To act as a role model for medication safety, be recognised nationally/internationally for work in this field of pharmacy practice and contribute to the national agenda as invited
- To advise on and support the review and action plans of any medicines-related CQC
- inspections, safety incidents, Prevention of Future Death Reports and safeguarding enquiries
- To demonstrably practice at Consultant Pharmacist level across all five domains of person-centred care, professional practice, leadership and management, education and research
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full description of the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key responsibilities of the post:
- To promote the safe use of medicines across North East London (NEL), developing and leading the medicines and prescribing safety and quality programmes for NEL, including medicines incident reporting, all relevant national programmes and workstreams and managing the ICB medicines risk register
- To lead the NEL Medicines Safety & Quality Group (MSQG) in developing a compelling vision and strategy for medicines safety which is informed by the needs of our local population and national and international best practice
- To work in partnership with Medicines Safety Officers and key clinical and care leads across NEL Integrated Care System, providing system leadership, expert knowledge, skills and strategies to support medication without harm across all organisations and develop an open culture of sharing and learning
- To act as a role model for medication safety, be recognised nationally/internationally for work in this field of pharmacy practice and contribute to the national agenda as invited
- To advise on and support the review and action plans of any medicines-related CQC
- inspections, safety incidents, Prevention of Future Death Reports and safeguarding enquiries
- To demonstrably practice at Consultant Pharmacist level across all five domains of person-centred care, professional practice, leadership and management, education and research
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full description of the role.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in Pharmacy - MPharm or equivalent qualification
- Post-graduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice/Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
- Competency assessed and examined professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council of Great Britain
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Council
Experience
Essential
- Experience in managing medication-related risks, governance and reporting in a healthcare organisation
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
- Experience in working cross-organisationally to achieve improvements
- Experience of conducting and supervising research/audit/QI projects in complex and challenging environments
Desirable
- Extensive pharmacy experience in primary care, hospital and/or community or experience of providing prescribing support to primary care organisations or practices
Knowledge
Essential
- To have a working knowledge of incident reporting systems and their application to medication safety
- To have a working knowledge of error causation, human factors, systems analysis and models of safety in healthcare
- Up-to-date knowledge of prescribing issues in primary care, community services and secondary care
- Expert knowledge of medicines governance processes and national guidance for the safe medicine use
- A strong understanding of the medicines optimisation agenda, including how medicines optimisation can improve the health and well-being of the local population
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in Pharmacy - MPharm or equivalent qualification
- Post-graduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice/Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
- Competency assessed and examined professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council of Great Britain
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Council
Experience
Essential
- Experience in managing medication-related risks, governance and reporting in a healthcare organisation
- Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
- Experience in working cross-organisationally to achieve improvements
- Experience of conducting and supervising research/audit/QI projects in complex and challenging environments
Desirable
- Extensive pharmacy experience in primary care, hospital and/or community or experience of providing prescribing support to primary care organisations or practices
Knowledge
Essential
- To have a working knowledge of incident reporting systems and their application to medication safety
- To have a working knowledge of error causation, human factors, systems analysis and models of safety in healthcare
- Up-to-date knowledge of prescribing issues in primary care, community services and secondary care
- Expert knowledge of medicines governance processes and national guidance for the safe medicine use
- A strong understanding of the medicines optimisation agenda, including how medicines optimisation can improve the health and well-being of the local population
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).