Job summary
Fixed term post until 31 March 2026 - 7.5 hours per week
Interviews: 8th May
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a
pharmacist to join the Medicines Optimisation team to work on medicines and
pharmacy research helping us meet our statutory responsibilities for research
and innovation. It is known that staff
satisfaction, recruitment and retention is higher among staff who are involved
in research and that pharmacy is considered, by the National Institute
of Health and care Research (NIHR), to be an under-represented profession in
relation to research. This new post presents an opportunity to take a
system-wide approach to pharmacy research in developing clinical academic roles
and in investigational medicinal product (IMP) management. With the
establishment of a new School of Pharmacy in Sheffield and the anticipated UK
Research Strategy for Pharmacy to be published in 2026 a champion is needed to
develop pharmacy research capability and capacity in SYICB. The role is funded
by the Yorkshire and Humber Research Delivery Network.
Location/Base: Any of the SY ICB bases (Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley or Doncaster).
Main duties of the job
The
postholder will be expected to engage with multi-disciplinary research and
clinical leaders locally, regionally and nationally, provide a focus for
pharmacy-led research, lead and collaborate on funding bids and conduct scoping
work with a view to building research capability and capacity across SY. The
remit encompasses pharmacys dual role in research, both in leading research
and in IMP management. Acknowledging that research is
crucial in transforming health and care for our patients, the role will begin
work to ensure pharmacy research is built into evolving patient pathways, produce
a pharmacy research strategy on how to build pharmacy research capability
across the system and write business cases to support consultant pharmacist
roles.
About us
NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board oversees health
and social care for a population of 1.4m people. Working through our 4 places, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield, we are building on the
strengths, capacity and knowledge of all those directly involved with our local
communities to deliver our four key aims of 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.
Our near 1,000 staff are committed to addressing the broader
health, public health, and social care needs of the population across South
Yorkshire through our values of One Team, Empowered and Innovative. We work as a key partner with the
Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) of health and care providers within the South
Yorkshire Integrated Care System (ICS) to collectively deliver health and care
services that meet the needs of the local population. In total there are 186 GP
practices in the region, 72,000 health and social care professionals working
across seven NHS trusts and four local authorities, and a further 6,000
voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE) organisations. We work
alongside all these colleagues through local councils, our VCSE
partners and other partners to address health inequalities and wider
determinants of health in South Yorkshire.
South Yorkshire ICB is a Disability Confident Employer
Job description
Job responsibilities
-
Communicate, engage and build
relationships with key strategic policy makers to influence and align the
development of strategy and policies across the organisation and the wider
health and social care system; ensuring that these fully integrate with other
areas of the NHS.
-
Forge close working relationships across
the organisation and beyond to facilitate an effective matrix management
approach to delivery of projects
and programmes of work to ensure integration at all levels.
-
Responsible for the interrogation and
analysis of, sometimes highly complex and contentious, information to support
the delivery of clear programme reporting and project outcomes.
-
Assist in the writing and delivery of
high-level programme reports for
programme boards assessing progress against milestones, status, resource
requirements, issues, risks and dependencies as guided by the portfolio leads
making recommendations on mitigation
and management of risk where a range of options may exist.
-
Support the Programme Directors,
Medicines Optimisation and Chief Pharmacy Officer to develop, with other
senior leaders, the strategic vision for the portfolio within SYICB and
develop a programme management strategy and operational guidance that support
this vision.
-
The post holder will work with
strategic pharmacy leads to create effective mechanisms for anticipating,
identifying, and responding to key clinical risks that could impact on the
successful delivery of the programme. This will include engaging with system
leaders through ICS medicine optimisation forums to drive research,
innovation, quality improvement, patient safety and population health
outcomes from a risk-based approach across the ICS footprint.
-
To contribute to the development of
policy, guidance and workplan/ strategy across a portfolio.
-
To represent the ICB at system
partnership meetings
-
Provides advice and guidance across
SYICB and beyond on specific subject matter areas, where they are the known
expert and can relate national policy and best practice to delivery across
multiple health and social care systems.
-
Contribute to medicines optimisation research projects
and sharing of good practice across the ICB and the wider NHS in conjunction
with the relevant strategic pharmacy lead direction
-
To be able to work on
own initiative and unsupervised to design and manage workload to meet
strategic and delivery objectives, guided by ICB and NHS information, and to
interpret these in such a way as to meet the short-, medium- and longer-term
strategic objective of the portfolio and ICB/ICS
-
Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity.
The post holder must be aware of and committed to the Equality and Diversity
policies of NHS South Yorkshire ICB, comply with all the requirements of
these policies and also actively promote Equality and Diversity issues
relevant to the post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
-
Communicate, engage and build
relationships with key strategic policy makers to influence and align the
development of strategy and policies across the organisation and the wider
health and social care system; ensuring that these fully integrate with other
areas of the NHS.
-
Forge close working relationships across
the organisation and beyond to facilitate an effective matrix management
approach to delivery of projects
and programmes of work to ensure integration at all levels.
-
Responsible for the interrogation and
analysis of, sometimes highly complex and contentious, information to support
the delivery of clear programme reporting and project outcomes.
-
Assist in the writing and delivery of
high-level programme reports for
programme boards assessing progress against milestones, status, resource
requirements, issues, risks and dependencies as guided by the portfolio leads
making recommendations on mitigation
and management of risk where a range of options may exist.
-
Support the Programme Directors,
Medicines Optimisation and Chief Pharmacy Officer to develop, with other
senior leaders, the strategic vision for the portfolio within SYICB and
develop a programme management strategy and operational guidance that support
this vision.
-
The post holder will work with
strategic pharmacy leads to create effective mechanisms for anticipating,
identifying, and responding to key clinical risks that could impact on the
successful delivery of the programme. This will include engaging with system
leaders through ICS medicine optimisation forums to drive research,
innovation, quality improvement, patient safety and population health
outcomes from a risk-based approach across the ICS footprint.
-
To contribute to the development of
policy, guidance and workplan/ strategy across a portfolio.
-
To represent the ICB at system
partnership meetings
-
Provides advice and guidance across
SYICB and beyond on specific subject matter areas, where they are the known
expert and can relate national policy and best practice to delivery across
multiple health and social care systems.
-
Contribute to medicines optimisation research projects
and sharing of good practice across the ICB and the wider NHS in conjunction
with the relevant strategic pharmacy lead direction
-
To be able to work on
own initiative and unsupervised to design and manage workload to meet
strategic and delivery objectives, guided by ICB and NHS information, and to
interpret these in such a way as to meet the short-, medium- and longer-term
strategic objective of the portfolio and ICB/ICS
-
Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity.
The post holder must be aware of and committed to the Equality and Diversity
policies of NHS South Yorkshire ICB, comply with all the requirements of
these policies and also actively promote Equality and Diversity issues
relevant to the post.
Person Specification
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Able to draw qualitative and quantitative information from a range of sources and present it in a clear and concise way.
- Able to negotiate on difficult and contentious issues including performance and change.
- Ability to effectively plan and think strategically and analyse and resolve problems in a multi- disciplinary environment.
- Good analytical skills with an ability to analyse and consider complex information and develop a range of options.
- Ability to anticipate problems before they arise and offer appropriate solutions.
- Demonstrate the ability to plan over the short, medium and long- term altering plans to fit with the rapidly changing environment.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite and intermediate keyboard skills.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills and an ability to engage successfully with a wide range of people at all levels within the organisation.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level in a relevant area of academic practice or equivalent experience working at a commensurate band / level.
- To have one or more of the below project management qualifications or equivalent level of experience:
- Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
- Managing Successful
- Programmes Advanced Practitioner
- P3O Practitioner.
- APM Registered Project Professional.
- Project Leadership Programme.
Desirable
- Additional management qualification or specialist qualification or equivalent level of experience.
Attributes
Essential
- Good ability to build relations with internal and external partners which are critical in securing the strategic objectives of the business.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Commitment to equality of opportunity, focused on removing barriers to full participation.
- Fosters good working relationships and values difference.
- Compassionate leader.
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to role.
- Extensive experience of leading change projects.
- Extensive experience of managing projects and delivering them within agreed timescales and budgets.
- Experience of providing support and input into complex programmes.
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Experience of researching best practice and developing solutions that can achieve optimal outcomes for all stakeholders.
- Experience of managing a team.
- Experience of interpreting national policy and implementing this through programmes of work.
- Previous experience of managing budgets for complex programmes of work, including budget setting and monitoring.
- Must understand the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this.
- Must understand the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Desirable
- Member of relevant professional body.
Person Specification
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- Able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Able to draw qualitative and quantitative information from a range of sources and present it in a clear and concise way.
- Able to negotiate on difficult and contentious issues including performance and change.
- Ability to effectively plan and think strategically and analyse and resolve problems in a multi- disciplinary environment.
- Good analytical skills with an ability to analyse and consider complex information and develop a range of options.
- Ability to anticipate problems before they arise and offer appropriate solutions.
- Demonstrate the ability to plan over the short, medium and long- term altering plans to fit with the rapidly changing environment.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite and intermediate keyboard skills.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills and an ability to engage successfully with a wide range of people at all levels within the organisation.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level in a relevant area of academic practice or equivalent experience working at a commensurate band / level.
- To have one or more of the below project management qualifications or equivalent level of experience:
- Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
- Managing Successful
- Programmes Advanced Practitioner
- P3O Practitioner.
- APM Registered Project Professional.
- Project Leadership Programme.
Desirable
- Additional management qualification or specialist qualification or equivalent level of experience.
Attributes
Essential
- Good ability to build relations with internal and external partners which are critical in securing the strategic objectives of the business.
- Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Commitment to equality of opportunity, focused on removing barriers to full participation.
- Fosters good working relationships and values difference.
- Compassionate leader.
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to role.
- Extensive experience of leading change projects.
- Extensive experience of managing projects and delivering them within agreed timescales and budgets.
- Experience of providing support and input into complex programmes.
- Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy.
- Experience of researching best practice and developing solutions that can achieve optimal outcomes for all stakeholders.
- Experience of managing a team.
- Experience of interpreting national policy and implementing this through programmes of work.
- Previous experience of managing budgets for complex programmes of work, including budget setting and monitoring.
- Must understand the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this.
- Must understand the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Desirable
- Member of relevant professional body.
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).