NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board

Senior Pharmacy Technician - Place

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Job summary

Following the Derby and Derbyshire ICB staff restructure, an important role have become available within the Pharmacy Directorate Team, which is part of the Medical Directorate. Supporting the Heads of Pharmacy for Place, you will be providing senior level pharmaceutical technician assistance within the new Pharmacy Team into our next chapter as an ICB, working across the system to deliver the functions of the Pharmacy Directorate Team.

We are seeking an experienced and talented Pharmacy technician to support the work of the Pharmacy Directorate and Medical Directorate in delivering high quality, safe and effective pharmaceutical care within Joined Up Care Derbyshire.

Candidates must hold professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a pharmacy technician and have the relevant post qualification experience in primary or secondary care.

Main duties of the job

  • Supporting Care Delivery and Health Equity:
    • Collaborate with the Pharmacy and Medical Directorates to ensure high-quality, safe, and effective care across care pathways within Joined Up Care Derbyshire.
    • Focus on Population Health Management, prevention, and reducing Health Inequalities.
    • Promote evidence-based and cost-effective use of medicines in various settings to enhance patient care.
  • Project Management and Communication:
    • Contribute to scoping and developing pharmacy and medicines projects.
    • Coordinate data analysis and prioritisation.
    • Ensure effective planning, management, and delivery of tasks/projects.
    • Lead initiatives related to pharmacy safety and efficiency.
    • Facilitate communication and stakeholder management both internally and externally.
  • Data Analysis and Reporting:
    • Analyse and interpret prescribing information.
    • Extract key insights from data analysis.
    • Make recommendations based on findings.
    • Prepare and present prescribing data reports at various levels (ICB, Trusts, PCN, etc.).
  • Resource Targeting and Assurance:
    • Support resource allocation, monitoring, and evaluation.
    • Provide high-quality support, including complex information and analysis.
    • Contribute to the development and management of systems ensuring pharmacy and medicines delivery meets standards set by the ICB and NHSE

About us

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you. We are able to accommodate a hybrid working schedule between working from our office(s) and working from home.

NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB is responsible for planning and commissioning a wide range of health and care services for the whole of Derby and Derbyshire. These include GP and primary care services, hospital care, community healthcare and mental health services. We have a duty to monitor these services to ensure they provide a high level of care and are value for money. Working within the newly formed Pharmacy Directorate Team (PDT) you will be a key part in helping us shape how we work now and in the future to improve the health and wellbeing of our population.

Please note: If required we may be able to consider a change of base location to NHS Scarsdale in Chesterfield for the right candidate.

Details

Date posted

15 July 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year pa, pro-rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

996-ICB-4699-24

Job locations

Derby Council House

Derby

DE1 2FS


Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Working Relationships:

  • Maintain constructive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Participate in complex, sensitive, and political working groups/projects.
  • Collaborate with team members to develop accurate data collection systems.
  • Communicate information, risks, and dependencies to project teams.
  • Collaborate with professionals to optimise medicines use
  • Support patient medication reviews with GP or non-medical prescribers.

Analytical/Judgmental:

  • Analyse specific projects/reports in detail.
  • Update and organise information for future needs.
  • Monitor risks and contribute to performance management.
  • Targeted support for health outcomes across the ICS footprint, prioritising areas of need.

Communication:

Provide specialist advice and investigate variances.

Support internal and external communications.

Prepare correspondence and complex papers.

Assist in preparing and contributing to regular prescribing review meetings for Places, PCNs, and practices.

Provide feedback on previous initiatives to enhance prescribing quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness.

Financial and Physical Resources:

  • Deliver against objectives and optimise resource use.
  • Strive for efficiency and contribute to financial delivery.
  • Develop evidence-based resources for practice, PCN, and Place work.

Staff Management:

  • Provide first-line management for Pharmacy Technicians.
  • Provide training, support, and participate in recruitment.

Information Management:

  • Enhance decision-making through reporting and analysis.
  • Develop and maintain information systems and databases.
  • Manage the Pharmacy Directorate Team Sharepoint web area.
  • Ensure accurate record-keeping for effective monitoring.
  • Co-ordinate technical medicines support for safe prescribing.

Research and Development:

Actively support and contribute to developing key performance indicators for assessing performance.

Test and review new concepts, models, methods, practices, products, and equipment.

Contribute to processes for sharing learning and outcomes.

Planning and Organisation:

Adjust strategic planning as necessary.

Support implementation of modernisation, service improvement, and other strategies.

Contribute to performance and governance strategies.

Formulate plans and strategic direction within the team.

Deliver against objectives, prioritise workload, and meet deadlines.

Policy and Service Development:

Propose changes to own project/function, informing policy.

Contribute to reviewing and developing existing information management systems.

Foster an integrated approach to project management.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Working Relationships:

  • Maintain constructive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Participate in complex, sensitive, and political working groups/projects.
  • Collaborate with team members to develop accurate data collection systems.
  • Communicate information, risks, and dependencies to project teams.
  • Collaborate with professionals to optimise medicines use
  • Support patient medication reviews with GP or non-medical prescribers.

Analytical/Judgmental:

  • Analyse specific projects/reports in detail.
  • Update and organise information for future needs.
  • Monitor risks and contribute to performance management.
  • Targeted support for health outcomes across the ICS footprint, prioritising areas of need.

Communication:

Provide specialist advice and investigate variances.

Support internal and external communications.

Prepare correspondence and complex papers.

Assist in preparing and contributing to regular prescribing review meetings for Places, PCNs, and practices.

Provide feedback on previous initiatives to enhance prescribing quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness.

Financial and Physical Resources:

  • Deliver against objectives and optimise resource use.
  • Strive for efficiency and contribute to financial delivery.
  • Develop evidence-based resources for practice, PCN, and Place work.

Staff Management:

  • Provide first-line management for Pharmacy Technicians.
  • Provide training, support, and participate in recruitment.

Information Management:

  • Enhance decision-making through reporting and analysis.
  • Develop and maintain information systems and databases.
  • Manage the Pharmacy Directorate Team Sharepoint web area.
  • Ensure accurate record-keeping for effective monitoring.
  • Co-ordinate technical medicines support for safe prescribing.

Research and Development:

Actively support and contribute to developing key performance indicators for assessing performance.

Test and review new concepts, models, methods, practices, products, and equipment.

Contribute to processes for sharing learning and outcomes.

Planning and Organisation:

Adjust strategic planning as necessary.

Support implementation of modernisation, service improvement, and other strategies.

Contribute to performance and governance strategies.

Formulate plans and strategic direction within the team.

Deliver against objectives, prioritise workload, and meet deadlines.

Policy and Service Development:

Propose changes to own project/function, informing policy.

Contribute to reviewing and developing existing information management systems.

Foster an integrated approach to project management.

Person Specification

Values

Essential

  • Demonstrate the behaviours that underpin the ICBs core value of 'One Team'

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential

  • Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
  • Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes
  • Good clinical understanding of disease state, lifestyle advice, drug treatment, side effects, interactions and medical terminology;
  • Advanced knowledge of GP Practice clinical systems;

Communication Skills

Essential

  • Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences;
  • Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks

Amalytical

Essential

  • Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
  • Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills

Desirable

  • Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where they may be a number of courses of action

Management Skills

Essential

  • Ability to engender trust and confidence and demonstrate integrity in the provision of advice and support
  • Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals;
  • Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload without supervision working to tight and often changing timescales, working flexibly around conflicting demands
Person Specification

Values

Essential

  • Demonstrate the behaviours that underpin the ICBs core value of 'One Team'

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential

  • Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
  • Further training or significant experience in project management, financial management or supporting change management processes
  • Good clinical understanding of disease state, lifestyle advice, drug treatment, side effects, interactions and medical terminology;
  • Advanced knowledge of GP Practice clinical systems;

Communication Skills

Essential

  • Clear communicator with excellent writing, report writing and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately for diverse audiences;
  • Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks

Amalytical

Essential

  • Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
  • Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills

Desirable

  • Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where they may be a number of courses of action

Management Skills

Essential

  • Ability to engender trust and confidence and demonstrate integrity in the provision of advice and support
  • Demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals;
  • Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload without supervision working to tight and often changing timescales, working flexibly around conflicting demands

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

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).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board

Address

Derby Council House

Derby

DE1 2FS


Employer's website

https://www.derbyandderbyshire.icb.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board

Address

Derby Council House

Derby

DE1 2FS


Employer's website

https://www.derbyandderbyshire.icb.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Head of Pharmacy - Policy

Emily Khatib

emily.khatib@nhs.net

07867152570

Details

Date posted

15 July 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year pa, pro-rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

996-ICB-4699-24

Job locations

Derby Council House

Derby

DE1 2FS


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