Job responsibilities
Principle Roles and Responsibilities:
Functions/Responsibilities:
The role will take guidance from corporate or national policies and guidelines and have overall corporate accountability for own department.
Provide significant expertise and leadership into developing and delivering the VHP medicines optimisation transforming and integrating medicines optimisation plan.
Working within the overall strategic objectives, devise and lead the implementation and delivery of medicines optimisation work, including supporting the development and implementation of prescribing incentive schemes or equivalent.
Provide highly specialist pharmaceutical advice and make recommendations for effective strategies, providing expertise and clear leadership alongside the GP clinical lead to deliver safe, effective and evidence-based medicine.
Provide medicines optimisation support and advice and advise on programmes in relation to pathway development, transformation, contracting and effective use of resources.
optimisation workplans where required. Report progress against the workplan through personal representation and by written reports at relevant meetings and at medicines optimisation committees and/or groups.
To manage the implementation of medicines related national guidance in collaboration with partners from the local health and social care economy alongside the GP clinical lead.
To develop and implement medicines optimisation and long-term condition initiatives and services to support clinical pathways and service redesign.
Ensure the securing of value for money and cost-effective use of medicines, giving due consideration to all relevant factors including risk, quality, sustainability and other factors.
Work with finance colleagues to monitor, track, forecast and report on medicines related expenditure against set prescribing budgets.
To work closely with Local Authority Public Health Teams for locally commissioned services that supply medicines where appropriate.
To support the management of appropriate strategies for clinical and financial risk management, clinical governance and controls assurance for medicines optimsation in collaboration with GP clinical lead.
To lead and undertake co-production of new services, outcomes monitoring, procurement, and financial oversight of relevant services.
To work closely with clinical leads and system stakeholders and partners to develop innovative approaches to service redesign to address health inequalities, reduce unwarranted variation and improve outcomes for long term conditions.
Supporting the pharmaceutical and medicines elements of emergency planning, preparedness and resilience.
To work collaboratively with Valentine PCN to support them in reducing variation, delivering commissioned incentive schemes and quality improvement programmes relating to medicines and long-term conditions.
To work collaboratively with community pharmacists, practice and PCN Pharmacists, effectively communicating Place or ICB medicines schemes and policies.
To lead initiatives to develop the Pharmacy workforce at Valentine Health Partnership. Lead and support pharmacy networks, developing PCN Pharmacist roles and Community Pharmacy Neighbourhood Lead Roles.
Ensure that errors in relation to the use of medicines are reported and investigated in line with VHP & ICB incident reporting systems.
Undertake investigation of medicines related complaints or incidents and liaise with appropriate functions/ teams.
To lead and contribute expertise to educational initiatives for clinicians, pharmacists, nurses, other prescribers and other groups e.g. social workers, on prescribing and medicines optimisation.
Communications & Relationships
To develop excellent partnerships to drive high value medicines optimisation within VHP including SEL ICB, public health, council, voluntary sector and primary care including Primary Care Networks, community pharmacy, Health Innovation Networks, NHSE. This includes cultivating a supportive and safe environment in which strengths can be shared, challenges made and the impact of decisions on the whole system reviewed and understood.
To develop and implement approaches to ensure the effective involvement of patients, the public and staff in local service transformation work. Design and use co-production approaches to ensure the voice and experience of people, including service users, patients, and carers.
Building and maintaining an active network of contacts, communicating and consulting with all stakeholders in projects and transformation work across VHP and SEL.
Constructively review ways of working and persuade, motivate and influence other senior managers, clinicians and care professionals using highly developed negotiating skills to improve population health.
Communicate highly contentious written and verbal information which may be complex to a wide range of audiences.
Work effectively with senior leaders in both the Council and the ICB, including elected members, clinical and professional leads, Directors and the Place Leadership Team.
To be able to proactively support VHP, patients, the wider NHS and social organisations in situations of either antagonistic, emotional and language barriers.
Financial and Physical Resources
Able to contribute to monitoring drug expenditure within VHP, and any local enhanced services or improvement schemes.
Working with the ICB implement and monitors the annual medicines optimisation workplan, savings plan and prescribing incentive schemes, leading on ensuring due consideration of place-based requirements.
To monitor financial and performance targets, comparing progress of VHP with SEL ICB trends in prescribing costs.
Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of the prescribing budgets and to ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year.
Advise on innovative opportunities in relation to medicines optimisation and support VHP as relevant to their lead areas in their strategies and programmes to maximise service benefits.
Undertake tracking of progress against plans and transition milestones, ensuring appropriate processes are in place to flag issues, risks and concerns with the relevant stakeholders.
To actively contribute to identifying strategies to deliver value for money and cost-effective use of medicines to inform the prescribing budget financial planning process
Staff Management and leadership
Hold responsibility for some staff management and will support VHP where required with recruitment, career development, performance, work evaluation, and clinical leadership to the pharmacy team.
Professional leadership of the team, including responsibility for developing a work plan, appraising, setting objectives, risk assessments and performance management (including appraisal, recruitment, disciplinary and grievance where appropriate).
Contribute to developing a workforce with the appropriate skill mix which takes account of emerging roles and organisations.
Contributing to future workforce planning and development and succession planning.
Provide oversight to the planning and delivery of training and development sessions
Policy and Service Development
To provide expert medicines optimisation leadership and advice with a specific focus on medicines optimisation and long term conditions.
Support the GP clinical lead and relevant Clinical and Care Professional Leads in leading the VHP medicines optimisation objectives and work plan, bringing a clinical and operational perspective to decisions affecting services within local health economy and communicating decisions and issues between any relevant committee and peers/colleagues.
Lead on the assessment, development and implementation of clinical/ pharmaceutical guidelines/protocols through liaison with clinical colleagues and patient participation where appropriate.
To support implementation of shared care, including seamless transfer of prescribing between providers and across health and social care at the time of hospital admission and discharge.
To contribute to the development, implementation and review of local policies across primary / secondary care (e.g. treatment guidelines/pathway, joint medicines formulary) where appropriate.
Analytical and Judgement Skills
The post holder will be responsible for the analysis of highly complex prescribing activity relating to performance targets or local services and will develop strategies, business plans and provide expert advice.
The postholder will be expected to have excellent analytical skills and havethe ability to interpret the problem or issue and use these skills to inform decision making.
The postholder will be expected to interrogate information and data to inform cases for change and business cases.
To ensure effective use of the national electronic prescribing database (ePACT), Eclipse Live, PrescQIPP, Open prescribing to obtain, analyse and interpret prescribing data for VHP. To ensure reporting to prescribers, other services or committees using this data.
Planning and Organisational skills
To plan and organise medicines optimisation and long-term condition services and provide business planning.
To build professional and personal credibility to win support.
To prioritise work, work under pressure and meet deadlines.
Ensure that you implement systems and procedures at a local level to fulfil the requirements of the organisations Risk Management Strategy including local management and resolution of complaints and concerns, management of SUIs/incidents and near misses.
To ensure that prescribing and medicines management are appropriately integrated in all health strategies and policies, with a focus on improving health and wellbeing of patients.
To support the Practice Patient Experience team with queries from patients where appropriate.
