Job summary
NHS
Sussex ICB ambition is to create an inclusive working environment which
reflects our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity for all groups. We
are particularly under represented in staff from Black, Asian, and Minority
Ethnic (BAME) and disabled communities and actively encourage and welcome
applications from these communities. Furthermore, we welcome applications
from reservists and ex-armed forces as we recognise the benefits of the values,
skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us.
Are you an ambitious pharmacist looking to
develop your career? We are seeking an experienced and highly driven pharmacist
to join our friendly and innovative team in an exciting role to lead on the
planning and delivery of the Primary Care elements of the Integrated Care
System (ICS) Medicines Optimisation Strategy which sets out our ambition to:
Improve population health and outcomes from medicines
Ensure we get the best value from medicines use
Ensure safer use of medicines
Help people to live healthier lives
Support our pharmacy and medicines workforce to do the best job
they can
We are ambitious, forward thinking
and strive to ensure that the patient is always at the heart of everything we
do. We adopt a flexible approach to working patterns, offering a mix of
practice-based, remote and office working to empower team members to optimise
their performance and deliver
Main duties of the job
The Postholder will be expected to actively engage and participate
in cross-functional collaboration within the Strategy, Commissioning and
Integration (SCI) Directorate, working with Strategic Lead Pharmacists in
Primary Care Medicines Optimisation, the Director of Primary Care Medicines
Optimisation and other medicines optimisation colleagues in the Chief Medical
Officer (CMO) directorate.
The post holder will be able to work agilely as part of the
organisations Smarter Working programme. This may include, but is not limited
to, home and NHS Sussex offices around the county, though the post holder will
be expected to travel within Sussex and neighbouring areas as required.
To apply for this position, you will need to be a registered
Pharmacist and on the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) register. Evidence of qualifications are required to be
shown as part of the recruitment process.
To be considered for interview candidates must state how
they meet the personal specification in their application.
Interviews are scheduled for Tuesday 17 December 2024 face
to face in Lewes, East Sussex.
For an informal chat please contact Jade Baker (jade.baker7@nhs.net), Lead Strategic
Pharmacist or Chirag Patel (chiragpatel4@nhs.net), Deputy Director of Primary Care Medicines
Optimisation.
About us
NHS Sussex ICB are
committed to enabling team members to work in an agile and flexible way. We
adopt a flexible first approach to working patterns. We empower our people to
work where, when, and how they choose with minimum constraints to support their
wellbeing to sustain good work life balance and to optimise performance and
delivery.
We celebrate
diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and
eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and
promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an
inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right
to be treated with dignity and respect.
Flexible working
requests will be considered for all roles.
Agile working is
not just related to working from different locations or at different times. It
is about effectively utilising technology to improve work practices and to work
differently to increase our overall effectiveness to improve health outcomes
for our population.
Should you require
a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please contact the
Recruitment Team at scw.peopleresource@nhs.net to ensure that measures can be
put in place to support you.
NHS Sussex has
committed to achieving Net Zero Carbon emissions by 2045. As a member of staff
you will be encouraged and supported to implement new ways of working that will
help us achieve that goal.
Working for us -
Sussex Health and Care (ics.nhs.uk)
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Strategy, Commissioning and Integration Directorate (SCI) has been established to enable NHS Sussex to:
Strengthen its approach to strategic commissioning, focusing on outcomes and joining up pathways of care across organisational boundaries.
Focus on reducing unwarranted variation in healthcare and address health inequalities.
Support the development of integrated community teams (ICT), with system partners including local authorities.
Support the strategic development of the system to enable the establishment of clinically led provider collaboratives to improve pathways, deliver service transformation and deliver best value within available resources.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Strategy, Commissioning and Integration Directorate (SCI) has been established to enable NHS Sussex to:
Strengthen its approach to strategic commissioning, focusing on outcomes and joining up pathways of care across organisational boundaries.
Focus on reducing unwarranted variation in healthcare and address health inequalities.
Support the development of integrated community teams (ICT), with system partners including local authorities.
Support the strategic development of the system to enable the establishment of clinically led provider collaboratives to improve pathways, deliver service transformation and deliver best value within available resources.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Specialist knowledge across range of procedures underpinned by theory
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equiv. pre year 2000.
- Professional clinical knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by diploma level specialist training, management qualification or equivalent and experience
- Registered pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent.
- Must understand the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the NHS England, individual provider, and commissioning organisations.
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working as a qualified,
- practising pharmacist in primary and/or secondary care.
- Experience of working across multiple settings
- Relevant leadership and/or clinical post-graduate qualification.
- Experience of training and developing pharmacists and health professionals
- Experience of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Uses clinical and pharmaceutical knowledge to demonstrate understanding of optimising balance between effectiveness, safety and cost of medicines.
- Demonstrates understanding of legal, governance and ethical frameworks within which pharmacists and primary / secondary care organisations work
- Understands Government policy and vision for the development of Primary Health and Social Care, and Secondary Care.
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.
- Clinically accountable for clinical service delivery
- Liaises with other agencies as appropriate
- Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts.
- Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others.
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
- Abilities for financial and staff management
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Interpreting national policy for implementation
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Specialist knowledge across range of procedures underpinned by theory
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equiv. pre year 2000.
- Professional clinical knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by diploma level specialist training, management qualification or equivalent and experience
- Registered pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent.
- Must understand the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the NHS England, individual provider, and commissioning organisations.
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience of working as a qualified,
- practising pharmacist in primary and/or secondary care.
- Experience of working across multiple settings
- Relevant leadership and/or clinical post-graduate qualification.
- Experience of training and developing pharmacists and health professionals
- Experience of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Uses clinical and pharmaceutical knowledge to demonstrate understanding of optimising balance between effectiveness, safety and cost of medicines.
- Demonstrates understanding of legal, governance and ethical frameworks within which pharmacists and primary / secondary care organisations work
- Understands Government policy and vision for the development of Primary Health and Social Care, and Secondary Care.
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.
- Clinically accountable for clinical service delivery
- Liaises with other agencies as appropriate
- Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts.
- Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others.
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
- Abilities for financial and staff management
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Interpreting national policy for implementation
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).
