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NHS Sussex ICB

Deputy Head of Medicines Governance & Value

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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.

We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us confidentially during the application process so that we can statistically monitor how fair and equitable our recruitment process is and how well we are reaching applicants from diverse communities and identify where we need to improve. This information is removed before shortlisting.

The NHS Sussex medicines optimisation team provide system leadership and oversight to ensure workstream delivery of the Sussex Medicines Optimisation strategy for the following priority areas:

  • Improving medicines use and value
  • Ensuring medicines safety and quality
  • Improving medicines integration and interfaces of care
  • Developing the Pharmacy workforce and ways of working
  • Support medicines optimisation data and digital technology transformation
  • Ensuring medicines sustainability and productivity

Main duties of the job

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced pharmacy leader who is interested in a role that supports the delivery of Medicines Use and Value, sustainability and productivity

and data and digital transformation priorities across ICS. The post holder will provide leadership to:

Regional medicines optimisation programmes

Provide expertise and advice for cost effective and evidenced base use of medicines in design and transformation of treatment pathways.

Work in collaboration with specialists to oversee the standardisation of medicines use across pathways and support implementation across the ICS.

Provide expertise and advice for service planning and contracting for standardised treatment pathways.

Support work on reducing health inequalities in outcomes and access to medicines.

The post holder will need to build and maintain a broad range of relationships at all levels of the system with a particular focus on integrated working and use of population health management approaches to improve access, experience, and outcomes from medicines.

The post holder will be expected to work with a high degree of autonomy, accountability, and report directly to the Head of Medicines Governance and Value.

For an informal discussion please contact Amy Herbet amy.herbert6@nhs.net or Gill Ells gillian.ells@nhs.net

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)

Details

Date posted

27 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£62,215 to £66,246 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

D9146-ICB-6551KB

Job locations

Sackville House

Brooks Close

Lewes

East Sussex

BN72FZ


Job description

Job responsibilities

The job description is an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role, and the job specification is an outline of the skills, experience and qualities needed.

The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.

The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The job description is an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role, and the job specification is an outline of the skills, experience and qualities needed.

The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.

The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time
  • Experience of operating at a senior level

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • 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

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
  • Experience of working across multiple settings
  • Relevant leadership and/or clinical post-graduate qualification.
  • Registered with 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.
  • Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
  • 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 of operating at a senior level
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time
  • Experience of operating at a senior level

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

  • 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

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
  • Experience of working across multiple settings
  • Relevant leadership and/or clinical post-graduate qualification.
  • Registered with 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.
  • Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
  • 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 of operating at a senior level

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

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 Sussex ICB

Address

Sackville House

Brooks Close

Lewes

East Sussex

BN72FZ


Employer's website

https://www.sussex.ics.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Sussex ICB

Address

Sackville House

Brooks Close

Lewes

East Sussex

BN72FZ


Employer's website

https://www.sussex.ics.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Amy Herbert

amy.herbert6@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

27 November 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£62,215 to £66,246 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

D9146-ICB-6551KB

Job locations

Sackville House

Brooks Close

Lewes

East Sussex

BN72FZ


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