Lead Pharmacist - Integrated Medicines Optimisation (IMOC)

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced and motivated pharmacist to join South East London Integrated Care Board (SEL ICB) as Lead Pharmacist, Integrated Medicines Optimisation on a fixed term contract basis for maternity leave cover for up to 12 months. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and committed Pharmacist to come and join us as part of the South East London Medicines Optimisation team. The Team reflects the values of the ICB of improving health outcomes, reducing health inequalities, delivering medicines value, and maintaining a thriving, financially viable, health economy delivering safe and effective high quality care that meets the needs of local people.

This senior leadership role sits within the Integrated Medicines Optimisation function in the Medicines Optimisation Team and plays a key role in supporting safe, effective and high value use of medicines across South East London. The postholder will lead the coordination and delivery of the South East London Integrated Medicines Optimisation Committee (IMOC), a multidisciplinary forum supporting system wide clinical and medicines decision making.

The postholder will work closely with members of the Medicines Optimisation Team, including the senior leadership team and will report to the Assistant Director for Integrated Medicines Optimisation. The postholder will also work collaboratively with partners across the Integrated Care System.

Please note: enquiries from recruitment agencies will not be responded to.

Main duties of the job

Lead system-wide medicines optimisation decision-makingYou will lead the coordination and day-to-day operation of the South East London Integrated Medicines Optimisation Committee (IMOC), enabling high-quality, evidence-informed and collaborative medicines decisions across the Integrated Care System.

Provide senior clinical and strategic pharmacy leadershipYou will offer expert advice on medicines optimisation, high-cost and specialist medicines, and support the implementation of NICE and national policy, helping to improve outcomes, reduce unwarranted variation and support value-based use of medicines.

Support medicines-related pathways and transformationWorking with providers and clinical leaders, you will contribute to medicines-related pathway development and system transformation, with a focus on quality, safety, equity and population health.

Use data and evidence to inform decisionsYou will interpret complex clinical, prescribing and financial information, support horizon scanning for new and emerging medicines, and contribute to value and productivity programmes.

Contribute to system-wide leadership and collaborationYou will build strong working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders across South East London, deputise for the Assistant Director, Integrated Medicines Optimisation as required, and contribute to professional leadership and team development within medicines optimisation.

About us

South East London Integrated Care Board (SEL ICB) brings together the health and care partners that serve our vibrant and highly diverse populations resident in the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Greenwich - our Places.

SEL ICB is the NHS management unit of the Integrated Care System (ICS). It is accountable both to NHS England and to the South East London Integrated Care Partnership (ICP). The ICS exists to deliver four core purposes:

o Improve outcomes in South East London population health and health and care serviceso Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access suffered by the residents of South East Londono Enhance productivity and value for money in the in the use of health and care resources in South East Londono Help the NHS support broader social and economic development in South East London.

The ICS is not an intermediate management tier and fundamental to the operating model of the ICS are three fundamental principles:

o Partnership: We are a partnership of sovereign bodies coming together to achieve something greater than the sum of the partners. All partners have a voice and all partners have responsibility.o Subsidiarity: We work on the basis of subsidiarity. This means issues and decisions should be dealt at the most local level consistent with their effective resolution.o Accountability: We value both supporting each other and being held to account by each other and our wider partners.