Job summary
An excellent joint post opportunity has arisen for a dynamic pharmacist to join the Medicines Optimisation Teams in Greenwich/Lewisham. Joining established teams which have long histories of successful working relationships with our local stakeholders, you will be working closely with a range of clinicians/stakeholders to shape healthcare and NHS transformation across our diverse and vibrant borough. Through a collaborative approach with stakeholders working across the local and SEL system, the team supports safe and effective medicines optimisation functions, to enable clinical and cost-effective use of medicines for our population.
Main duties of the job
With excellent relationship, communication, and organisation skills, you will work as part of the Greenwich and Lewisham Medicines Optimisation Teams to deliver medicines optimisation services for the people of Greenwich and Lewisham. You will contribute to promoting and implementing safe, clinically cost-effective and high-quality medicines optimisation initiatives across the healthcare system.
There will be some requirement to work across Greenwich and Lewisham offices, will be non-patient facing with hybrid working from the offices and home. The role is suited for someone seeking full-time work.
For an informal discussion please contact Alex Pini, Assistant Director of Medicines Optimisation (Greenwich), SEL ICB. alexander.pini@selondonics.nhs.uk
About us
The NHS South East London Integrated Care Board (NHS SEL ICB) is an NHS statutory organisation. We bring together partners involved in planning and providing NHS services, working together to meet the health needs of the population within south east London and deliver the Integrated Care Partnership's strategy. We are responsible for allocating NHS resource to deliver this plan.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job description and person specification for full details of the vacancy .
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job description and person specification for full details of the vacancy .
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Master's level or equivalent
- Current registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Postgraduate qualification in clinical/community pharmacy or equivalent additional experience
- Mandatory Continuing Professional Development to maintain fitness to practice and revalidation
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of facilitating change in practice
- Awareness of Quality Improvement methodology
- Awareness of various sources of prescribing data, e.g. ePACT2
- Understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy as relates to pharmacy practice and medicines optimisation
- Excellent clinical and pharmaceutical knowledge
- Experience of advising on medicines-related queries
- Experience of multidisciplinary working
- Extensive, community and /or hospital pharmacy experience or experience of providing prescribing support to primary care organisations or practices
Skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
- Capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Capable of original thought and developing ideas into practice
- Ability to assimilate, analyse, interpret and present data
- Ability to plan, set objectives, priorities and review performance against objectives
- Ability to manage own workload and make informed decisions, working to tight and often changing timescales
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Master's level or equivalent
- Current registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Postgraduate qualification in clinical/community pharmacy or equivalent additional experience
- Mandatory Continuing Professional Development to maintain fitness to practice and revalidation
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Experience of facilitating change in practice
- Awareness of Quality Improvement methodology
- Awareness of various sources of prescribing data, e.g. ePACT2
- Understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy as relates to pharmacy practice and medicines optimisation
- Excellent clinical and pharmaceutical knowledge
- Experience of advising on medicines-related queries
- Experience of multidisciplinary working
- Extensive, community and /or hospital pharmacy experience or experience of providing prescribing support to primary care organisations or practices
Skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Experience of creating and giving presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
- Capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Capable of original thought and developing ideas into practice
- Ability to assimilate, analyse, interpret and present data
- Ability to plan, set objectives, priorities and review performance against objectives
- Ability to manage own workload and make informed decisions, working to tight and often changing timescales
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
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
