Job summary
Working
within Humber and North Yorkshire Partnership (initially employed by Vale of York CCG until
point of transfer on 1st July 2022)
At a significant
and exciting point of transformation within Humber and North Yorkshire Health
and Care Partnership, the Clinical and Professional Directorate are recruiting
to their team.
We have a position
available for an ICS Community Pharmacy Clinical Lead. If you can see yourself
in our vision and values, and are excited by the prospect of contributing to
solving the challenges we face, we would love to hear from you.
This role is
for a qualified pharmacy professional – pharmacist or pharmacy technician.
Providing visible,
credible and effective leadership, the post holder will work closely with colleagues across the
system to support clinical governance and implementation of community pharmacy
clinical services.
For an informal, fully confidential discussion about this role please
contact: Laura Angus – Interim Lead Pharmacist, Humber and North Yorkshire l.angus@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
The Community Pharmacy Clinical Lead will work with the Integrated Care System (ICS) pharmacy teams and primary care commissioning, colleagues within NHS Trusts and other key stakeholders (e.g., LPC, LPN, AHSN) and be responsible for ensuring appropriate clinical governance of community pharmacy clinical services is in place across the ICS.
The post holder will work with system colleagues across the ICS region and national teams to help NHSE/I to get the best value from community pharmacy programmes and services by providing clinical expertise to support pharmacy integration pilots and projects and to embed new clinical services to fully realise their potential.
The postholder will support delivery of the commitments in the GP 5-year deal, the community pharmacy 5-year deal, the LTP and wider health initiatives, such as the addressing health inequalities.
The post holder will seek to realise the full potential from the newly commissioned services being delivered by pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in primary care settings.
To succeed in this role, you will be an experienced pharmacy professional with significant leadership experience and specialist clinical knowledge and expertise, honed by experience of working with and leading in community pharmacy environments.
About us
Working within Humber and North Yorkshire Partnership (initially employed by Vale of York CCG until point of transfer on 1st July 2022)
The Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care System is a collaboration of nearly 30 different health and care organisations which believe they are stronger when working together.
Together we form the system of organisations that are responsible for planning, paying for and providing health and care services within Humber and North Yorkshire. We serve a population of 1.7 million people, all with different health and care needs.
The Partnership (ICS) works across a geographical area of more than 1,500 square miles which includes cities, market towns and many different rural and coastal communities. Our area stretches along the east coast of England from Scarborough to Cleethorpes and along both banks of the Humber. Humber and North Yorkshire incorporates the cities of Hull and York and large rural areas across East Yorkshire, North Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire.
As of 1 July 2022, new statutory arrangements take effect for Integrated Care Boards (ICB) across the country to be legally and operationally established and this is your chance to be part of the ICB within Humber and North Yorkshire (initially appointed to Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group).
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job summary - see attached job description
We are seeking candidates who display authenticity in relation to the following:-
• A strong belief, commitment, and passion for the NHS & Social Care
• A strong commitment to the purpose of Humber and North Yorkshire which is to enable those we serve to Start Well, Live Well, Age Well and End Life Well
• A strong commitment to the power of partnership working and the benefits this can bring.
• A strong commitment to the values of our ICS :-
o We act in the best interests of the population of the Humber and North Yorkshire
o We support each other and work collaboratively
o We act with openness, honesty, and integrity, and in good faith to each other
o We challenge constructively when we need to
o We respect other people's perspectives and recognise equal status and standing
o We will implement our shared priorities and decisions, holding each other mutually accountable for deliver
Please find attached Job Description for this role with further information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job summary - see attached job description
We are seeking candidates who display authenticity in relation to the following:-
• A strong belief, commitment, and passion for the NHS & Social Care
• A strong commitment to the purpose of Humber and North Yorkshire which is to enable those we serve to Start Well, Live Well, Age Well and End Life Well
• A strong commitment to the power of partnership working and the benefits this can bring.
• A strong commitment to the values of our ICS :-
o We act in the best interests of the population of the Humber and North Yorkshire
o We support each other and work collaboratively
o We act with openness, honesty, and integrity, and in good faith to each other
o We challenge constructively when we need to
o We respect other people's perspectives and recognise equal status and standing
o We will implement our shared priorities and decisions, holding each other mutually accountable for deliver
Please find attached Job Description for this role with further information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Pharmacy professional registered with GPhC.
- Educated to Masters or equivalent level with post graduate qualifications.
- Experience of working at a senior level in specialist prescribing arena.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Proven and significant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification.
- Evidence of post qualifying continuing professional development.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
Desirable
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, the NHS England/ NHS Improvement and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Skills, Capabilities and Attributes
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.
- Ability to lead improvement system wide.
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations.
- 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.
- Ability to communicate effectively with clinical, academic and all levels of staff.
- 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.
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate.
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and short/medium and long term planning with highly developed political skills.
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership.
- 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.
- Knowledge and experience of the pharmacy processes across hospital, primary care and community pharmacy.
- The postholder will need to be competent in utilising software to analyse data and produce reports.
Desirable
- Experience of successfully implementing pharmacy services in any setting.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Pharmacy professional registered with GPhC.
- Educated to Masters or equivalent level with post graduate qualifications.
- Experience of working at a senior level in specialist prescribing arena.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Proven and significant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification.
- Evidence of post qualifying continuing professional development.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
Desirable
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, the NHS England/ NHS Improvement and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Skills, Capabilities and Attributes
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.
- Ability to lead improvement system wide.
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations.
- 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.
- Ability to communicate effectively with clinical, academic and all levels of staff.
- 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.
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate.
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and short/medium and long term planning with highly developed political skills.
- Ability to demonstrate a high level of expertise in providing senior leadership.
- 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.
- Knowledge and experience of the pharmacy processes across hospital, primary care and community pharmacy.
- The postholder will need to be competent in utilising software to analyse data and produce reports.
Desirable
- Experience of successfully implementing pharmacy services in any setting.
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
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
