Job summary
North Central London Integrated Care Board is looking to recruit a registered and experienced pharmacy professional to provide clinical leadership across the NCL Integrated Care System (ICS) in the effective implementation, integration, transformation and assurance of community pharmacy clinical services. The successful post holder will have demonstrable experience in leadership of pharmacy services and have relevant knowledge of pharmacy across community and primary care as well as hospital settings.
The Community Pharmacy Clinical Lead will work closely with colleagues across the ICS to ensure there is highly effective collaboration to drive the delivery of the community pharmacy integration programme and the community pharmacy contractual framework.
You will have the opportunity to work with many different stakeholders within the ICS including, but not limited to, Local Pharmaceutical Committees, primary care commissioning teams, Primary Care Networks, Local Authorities as well as pharmacy and medicines optimisation teams across community pharmacy, acute, community services and mental health trusts. You will also collaborate and work with colleagues in NHS England's national and regional pharmacy integration teams to ensure the success of the pharmacy integration programme as a key enabler in tackling health inequalities in patient access, outcomes and experience.
Interviews to be held on Mon 12th Dec & Tues 20th Dec.
Main duties of the job
The Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework (CPCF) 2019 - 2024 agreement commits to a 5-year deal for community pharmacy to be more fully integrated in the NHS, providing a range of clinical services, be the first port of call for healthy living advice and for managing minor illness, and to support managing demand in general practice and urgent care settings.
As the NHS enters a period of recovery following the COVID pandemic, community pharmacy is well placed to support the system in opening up access to a range of clinical and preventative services and supporting actions to mitigate against health inequalities. For this to happen equitably across the country, clinical leadership and expert commissioning advice regarding community pharmacy is critical to realise the full potential of the nationally agreed contract for local populations.
The Pharmacy Integration Fund is providing systems with funding until 31/03/2024 to ensure there is good clinical leadership and support for the implementation, integration and assurance of community pharmacy clinical services.
Please see JD for further details on the scope of this role.
About us
On 1 July 2022, NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) was established. The ICB is part of North Central London Integrated Care System (ICS). The ICS is a partnership of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people in our five boroughs: Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey and Islington.
ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of ICSs:o to improve outcomes in population health and healthcareo tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and accesso enhance productivity and value for moneyo help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
North Central London's population is incredibly diverse, and continues to grow and change. This brings pressure and challenges for the local health and care services that NCL ICB commissions - or buys - on behalf of residents. NCL ICB works closely with Councils, providers, general practices, voluntary, community organisations, and unions, to achieve our shared aims.
NCL ICB values our staff, our partners and their expertise to deliver the best health and care possible for the patients and residents of North Central London.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details on this role, please refer to the attached job description. Please ensure that you pay careful attention to the essentials and desirables of the person specification when completing your supporting statement.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details on this role, please refer to the attached job description. Please ensure that you pay careful attention to the essentials and desirables of the person specification when completing your supporting statement.
Person Specification
Education/ Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential
- Pharmacist or Pharmacy Technician registered with GPhC.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Post graduate or equivalent i.e.to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Knowledge and understanding of community pharmacy contracts and commissioning.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, the NHS/ NHS Improvement and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Experience
Essential
- Proven and significant leadership experience and/ or formal management qualification.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Experience of successfully implementing pharmacy services in any setting.
- Line management experience
- Knowledge and experience of the pharmacy processes across hospital, primary care and community pharmacy.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership.
- Able to operate effectively in a highly political and sensitive environment
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
- Autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation.
- Ability to lead improvement system wide.
- Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement.
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner.
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess verbal, written, numerical and draw appropriate conclusions.
- Ability to develop strategic plans for prescribing and medicines optimisation, and to review performance against objectives.
- Keyboard Skills for preparation of reports and sharing data
Communication
Essential
- Ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and networks.
- Ability to work with and influence a wide range of health and social care stakeholders across differing agendas.
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations.
- Ability to communicate effectively with clinical, academic and all levels of staff.
Efforts & Factors
Essential
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same.
- Can demonstrate a flexible approach - able to adapt to varying circumstances
- Has realistic knowledge of personal strengths and areas for development.
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness
Person Specification
Education/ Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential
- Pharmacist or Pharmacy Technician registered with GPhC.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Post graduate or equivalent i.e.to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Knowledge and understanding of community pharmacy contracts and commissioning.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, the NHS/ NHS Improvement and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Experience
Essential
- Proven and significant leadership experience and/ or formal management qualification.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Experience of successfully implementing pharmacy services in any setting.
- Line management experience
- Knowledge and experience of the pharmacy processes across hospital, primary care and community pharmacy.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership.
- Able to operate effectively in a highly political and sensitive environment
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
- Autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation.
- Ability to lead improvement system wide.
- Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement.
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner.
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess verbal, written, numerical and draw appropriate conclusions.
- Ability to develop strategic plans for prescribing and medicines optimisation, and to review performance against objectives.
- Keyboard Skills for preparation of reports and sharing data
Communication
Essential
- Ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and networks.
- Ability to work with and influence a wide range of health and social care stakeholders across differing agendas.
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations.
- Ability to communicate effectively with clinical, academic and all levels of staff.
Efforts & Factors
Essential
- Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
- Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same.
- Can demonstrate a flexible approach - able to adapt to varying circumstances
- Has realistic knowledge of personal strengths and areas for development.
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
