Job summary
The post holder will work as a member of the NHS Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group Integrated Medicines and Prescribing Service (IMPS) Team working with local PCNs and GP practices to improve the quality of prescribing, to reduce the unwarranted variation in prescribing across the Lincolnshire CCG area and promote safe and cost-effective prescribing.
Although the post holder will be assigned to a particular locality, they will be expected to work collaboratively with other locality team members and across the health community as work programs require. The post holder will work as part of a dynamic team in delivering Medicines Optimisation across the health community, supporting managers and staff.
Main duties of the job
- Support the Local Pharmacists to build and maintain a primary care pharmacy network and play a key role in delivering the IMPS medicines optimisation agenda and work programme.
- Lead on speciality (to be confirmed) and work with the IMPS Team to ensure that all processes required to ensure CCG statutory duty and promote our patient's safety and quality care in this area are implemented and monitored.
About us
NHS Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Lincolnshire delivering the commitments set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.
Lincolnshire CCG is responsible for meeting the needs of the population through the strategic commissioning of high quality services. It seeks to improve patient experience and is committed at looking at innovative ways to improve patient care and offer more choice. Patients are at the heart of everything the CCG does, and it is 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.
The CCG is required to manage expenditure within sustainable levels (in alignment to the Lincolnshire System Strategic Plan) through three types of scheme: system wide transformation, system wide efficiency, CCG only efficiency.
The CCG will promote good governance and proper stewardship of public resources in pursuance of its goals and in meeting its statutory duties. Good corporate governance arrangements are critical to achieving the CCG's objectives and financial sustainability.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further details about the duties and responsibilities of this role are provided in the attached job description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further details about the duties and responsibilities of this role are provided in the attached job description.
Person Specification
Essential & Desirable
Essential
- Qualifications at degree level through formal qualification or equivalent experience supported by extensive CPD portfolio
- NVQ Level 3/BTEC in pharmaceutical sciences or equivalent.
- Registered Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Experience of medicines optimisation and delivery of medicines optimisation projects
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Experience of training other healthcare professionals both individually and in groups.
- Enthusiasm and ability to work well in a team
- Excellent communication skills, written, verbal and presentation
- Ability to analyse, interpret and compare options on complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Ability to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information
- Keyboard skills and familiarity with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Demonstrable ability to prioritise effectively and deal with conflicting priorities and deadlines
- Ability to use own initiative within sphere of responsibility
- Ability to build good working relationships with a range of stakeholders, exercising tact and diplomacy where required
- Awareness of professional capability and limitations
- Commitment to personal, team and organisational development
Desirable
- Project Management Qualification or related course module completion
- NHS Primary Care/Commissioning experience
- Experience of multi-agency team working and developing relationships across organisational boundaries within the public sector
- Experience of using and analysing ePACT2 data
- Experience of managing a team without direct line management responsibilities
- Experience in Meeting/event organisation
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management
- Can identify and manage risks and evaluate quality of own work / service
Person Specification
Essential & Desirable
Essential
- Qualifications at degree level through formal qualification or equivalent experience supported by extensive CPD portfolio
- NVQ Level 3/BTEC in pharmaceutical sciences or equivalent.
- Registered Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Experience of medicines optimisation and delivery of medicines optimisation projects
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Experience of training other healthcare professionals both individually and in groups.
- Enthusiasm and ability to work well in a team
- Excellent communication skills, written, verbal and presentation
- Ability to analyse, interpret and compare options on complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Ability to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information
- Keyboard skills and familiarity with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Demonstrable ability to prioritise effectively and deal with conflicting priorities and deadlines
- Ability to use own initiative within sphere of responsibility
- Ability to build good working relationships with a range of stakeholders, exercising tact and diplomacy where required
- Awareness of professional capability and limitations
- Commitment to personal, team and organisational development
Desirable
- Project Management Qualification or related course module completion
- NHS Primary Care/Commissioning experience
- Experience of multi-agency team working and developing relationships across organisational boundaries within the public sector
- Experience of using and analysing ePACT2 data
- Experience of managing a team without direct line management responsibilities
- Experience in Meeting/event organisation
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management
- Can identify and manage risks and evaluate quality of own work / service
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).
