Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge and to develop your pharmacy career? Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB are seeking to employ a Polypharmacy Programme Lead Pharmacist to drive implementation and development of system wide projects to address problematic polypharmacy.
Integrated care systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up services and to improve the health of people who live and work in their area. They exist to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in patient outcomes, experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money and support broader social and economic development in their area.
Addressing Problematic Polypharmacy has been chosen by the ICS as one of the National Medicines Optimisation Opportunities we want to work together on.
This fixed term post will be responsible for providing medicines optimisation professional expertise to develop, plan, co-ordinate and manage the ICS polypharmacy programme, ensuring implementation is both successful and sustained.
Main duties of the job
This role will be shaped by the ICS aims and objectives and the successful post holder will work closely with all members of the ICB Medicines Optimisation Team, pharmacy teams and a wide range of stakeholders at all levels within the wider ICS health and social care community.
You will be required to work collaboratively, utilising a range of leadership skills and attributes to deliver outcomes to make a real difference to the lives of the local population. A clear understanding of the challenges facing Health and Social Care systems will be essential, as will experience and knowledge of how to drive system improvements.
This leadership post will be responsible for providing medicines optimisation professional expertise to develop, plan, co-ordinate and manage the ICS polypharmacy programme, ensuring implementation is both successful and sustained.
The post holder will have experience of working with all partner organisations in the ICS, and in delivering complex change programmes.
They will work with and be directed by the ICB polypharmacy programme Senior Pharmacist lead, but will also support the ICB Chief Pharmacist, and Senior Medicines Optimisation team to implement and deliver aspects of the Medicines Optimisation Strategy for the ICS, where the objectives are aligned to the work in the polypharmacy programme.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will:
develop actionable planning documentation and co-ordinate implementation that will drive best practice and quality improvements through multi-disciplinary and partnership working, across the ICS.
interpret highly complex facts and use their expertise in programme management to achieve project deliverables whilst ensuring the quality of care for patients is maintained.
generate improvement opportunities, use their previous experience to influence teams to work in new ways and be able to effectively communicate with staff at all levels across stakeholder organisations.
when needed, challenge stakeholders about delivery of tasks and hold to account where agreed performance targets have not been met.
work within established governance processes, managed by the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICS Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy Board (NNICS MOPB)
The post holder will demonstrate a methodical and structured approach along with utilisation of project management skills to manage all aspects of the full project lifecycle:
Identifying and managing programme dependencies.
Identification and management of project risks and issues.
Ability to share project management knowledge and experience to project/scheme leads across the ICS.
Convey strong system financial awareness of delivering a financial improvement programme.
Demonstrate clear development logic that can be understood by all stakeholders.
Provide timely programme progress updates on status of projects to the NNICS MOPB
Provide leadership, decision making, progress updates and articulate key risks/issues in NNMOPB meetings.
Work with the IPMO Programme Manager to ensure project documentation (e.g. Project workbook, Project Brief, milestones, financial phasing, KPIs) is completed to appropriate standards.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will:
develop actionable planning documentation and co-ordinate implementation that will drive best practice and quality improvements through multi-disciplinary and partnership working, across the ICS.
interpret highly complex facts and use their expertise in programme management to achieve project deliverables whilst ensuring the quality of care for patients is maintained.
generate improvement opportunities, use their previous experience to influence teams to work in new ways and be able to effectively communicate with staff at all levels across stakeholder organisations.
when needed, challenge stakeholders about delivery of tasks and hold to account where agreed performance targets have not been met.
work within established governance processes, managed by the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICS Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy Board (NNICS MOPB)
The post holder will demonstrate a methodical and structured approach along with utilisation of project management skills to manage all aspects of the full project lifecycle:
Identifying and managing programme dependencies.
Identification and management of project risks and issues.
Ability to share project management knowledge and experience to project/scheme leads across the ICS.
Convey strong system financial awareness of delivering a financial improvement programme.
Demonstrate clear development logic that can be understood by all stakeholders.
Provide timely programme progress updates on status of projects to the NNICS MOPB
Provide leadership, decision making, progress updates and articulate key risks/issues in NNMOPB meetings.
Work with the IPMO Programme Manager to ensure project documentation (e.g. Project workbook, Project Brief, milestones, financial phasing, KPIs) is completed to appropriate standards.
Person Specification
Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, Values
Essential
- Master's degree in pharmacy or equivalent
- Pharmacist registered with the GPhC
- Use of project management methods to plan and deliver programmes of work
- Knowledge and experience of the pharmacy processes across hospital, primary care and community pharmacy
- An appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHSE, provider and commissioning organisations
- Understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Ability to manage and facilitate improvement system wide.
- Ability to work with and influence a wide range of health and social care stakeholders across differing agendas
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
- Ability to develop and implement plans and can demonstrate a disciplined approach to setting and achieving objectives.
- Ability to draw quantitative and qualitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner.
- Embraces change and views it as an opportunity to learn and develop
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same. Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
Person Specification
Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, Values
Essential
- Master's degree in pharmacy or equivalent
- Pharmacist registered with the GPhC
- Use of project management methods to plan and deliver programmes of work
- Knowledge and experience of the pharmacy processes across hospital, primary care and community pharmacy
- An appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHSE, provider and commissioning organisations
- Understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Ability to manage and facilitate improvement system wide.
- Ability to work with and influence a wide range of health and social care stakeholders across differing agendas
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
- Ability to develop and implement plans and can demonstrate a disciplined approach to setting and achieving objectives.
- Ability to draw quantitative and qualitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner.
- Embraces change and views it as an opportunity to learn and develop
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same. Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board
Address
Sir John Robinson House
Sir John Robinson Way
Arnold, Nottingham
NG5 6DA
Employer's website
https://notts.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
