Senior Pharmacist - Integrated Medicines Optimisation

Job summary

The South East London Integrated Care Board (SEL ICB) brings together the health and care partners that serve our vibrant and highly diverse populations across the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark.

This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and committed pharmacist to join the South East London Medicines Optimisation Team on a fixed-term basis (up to 12 months) to cover maternity leave. The team reflects the ICB's values of improving health outcomes, reducing inequalities, delivering medicines value and ensuring a thriving, financially sustainable health system that provides safe, high-quality care for local people.

You will join a well-established medicines optimisation and pharmacy network across South East London, working collaboratively to harness and build on collective expertise to drive improvement.

This post is one of two Senior Pharmacist roles in the Integrated Medicines Optimisation Team. Please note, this recruitment is for one of these posts only. The Senior Pharmacist for Integrated Medicines Optimisation works across SEL Integrated Care System (ICS) to support delivery of a defined portfolio of our SEL Transforming and Integrating Medicines Optimisation (TIMO) programme.

Please note: enquiries from recruitment agencies will not be responded to.

Main duties of the job

Working collaboratively with their counterpart, the postholder will lead on selected portfolio areas to support delivery of SEL medicines optimisation priorities. Operating in a matrix management style, they will share responsibilities and provide cross-cover with their counterpart as required.

By engaging and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders, the postholder will support:

• The coordination and delivery of the SEL Integrated Medicines Optimisation Committee (IMOC) - a multidisciplinary, clinical decision-making forum for medicines-related matters.
• The development of high-cost drug pathways and outcomes frameworks through agreed SEL IMOC specialist sub-groups.
• The work of the SEL Medicines Value Group.

The postholder will also work with the Chief Pharmacist, Associate Chief Pharmacists and place-based teams to deliver pharmacy leadership, integration objectives and opportunities for safe, cost-effective prescribing.

About us

The South East London Integrated Care Board (SEL ICB) brings together the health and care partners that serve our vibrant and highly diverse populations resident in the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Greenwich - our Places.

The SEL ICB is the NHS management unit of the Integrated Care System (ICS). It is accountable both to NHS England and to the South East London Integrated Care Partnership (ICP). The ICS exists to deliver four core purposes:

• Improve outcomes in South East London population health and health and care services
• Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access suffered by the residents of South East London
• Enhance productivity and value for money in the in the use of health and care resources in South East London
• Help the NHS support broader social and economic development in South East London.

The ICS is not an intermediate management tier and fundamental to the operating model of the ICS are three fundamental principles:

• Partnership: We are a partnership of sovereign bodies coming together to achieve something greater than the sum of the partners. All partners have a voice and all partners have responsibility.
• Subsidiarity: We work on the basis of subsidiarity. This means issues and decisions should be dealt at the most local level consistent with their effective resolution.
• Accountability: We value both supporting each other and being held to account by each other and our wider partners.