Job summary
The Clinical and Quality Portfolio Lead Pharmacist will provide strategic and professional leadership for the clinical and quality portfolio and wider medicines optimisation function.
As a senior member of the ICB's medicines optimisation function, the postholder will lead the development and delivery of a system-wide approach to safe, effective, and evidence-based use of medicines. They will work across organisational boundaries and drive high-impact initiatives that improve patient outcomes, reduce unwarranted variation, and ensure best value from medicines.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will support the medicines optimisation function meet the four core purposes of the ICS: improve outcomes in population health and healthcare, tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access enhance productivity and value for money, help the NHS support broader social and economic development
The post holder will be a key member of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation senior leadership team. They will support the development of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation shared system wide strategy and operational plan. Linking with national policy, regional and local priorities it delivers maximum value and outcomes for patients, the local population and the NHS.
They will lead the clinical & quality team to deliver key work-programmes including, but not limited to:o Long-term conditionso Medicines formularyo Clinical guideline, policy and protocol developmento Shared Care Protocol developmento Quality Improvement & audit developmento Mental Health & LDo Antimicrobial Stewardshipo GIRFTo Population Health Management
About us
NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care
Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up services and to improve the health and wellbeing of people who live and work in their area. Their purpose is to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money and support broader social and economic development in their area efficiency. This will be delivered in neighbourhood, place, combinations of places and GM system.
Our NHS People Promise
Our NHS People Promise -the promise we must all make to each other, to work together to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Like many other employers, NHS GM currently has evidence of unwarranted inequalities in the workforce, most notably in relation to minoritised ethnic, female and\or disabled staff and their intersectionality. As a result, we will use positive action measures to bring benefits to our organisation, including a wider pool of talented, skilled and experienced people from which to recruit and a better understanding of the needs of a more diverse range of customers.
Working across NHS GM or a designated locality on joint workstreams and initiatives and promoting awareness of Medicines Optimisation issues. This role will require direct regular travel to GM & stakeholder locations
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Functional Responsibilities:
They will lead assigned portfolios of work for the ICB.
The post holder will through joint working with partners and place-based teams; develop and deliver the Integrating Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation (IPMO) agenda.
Working in collaboration with partners including: LTC programme leads, ICB contract, quality/performance, finance, medicines optimisation teams, NHS providers and other organisations to support the integration of the clinical and quality programmes.
Lead transformation workstreams for pharmacy/medicines optimisation across the ICS.
Work in collaboration with national, regional and GM to develop GM pharmacy/medicines optimisation workstreams.
Work with cluster lead pharmacists and place based teams to ensure delivery of the Medicines Optimisation Strategy and Operational Plan.
Support the GM Chief Pharmacist in quality and performance issues relating to pharmacy/medicines optimisation services
Provide specialist advice and prepare strategic reports and briefings for directors, regional teams and stakeholders.
In depth analysis, interpretation and production of complex and multiple reports.
They will manage assigned members of the team and deputise for the Chief Pharmacist/Deputy Chief Pharmacist when required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Functional Responsibilities:
They will lead assigned portfolios of work for the ICB.
The post holder will through joint working with partners and place-based teams; develop and deliver the Integrating Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation (IPMO) agenda.
Working in collaboration with partners including: LTC programme leads, ICB contract, quality/performance, finance, medicines optimisation teams, NHS providers and other organisations to support the integration of the clinical and quality programmes.
Lead transformation workstreams for pharmacy/medicines optimisation across the ICS.
Work in collaboration with national, regional and GM to develop GM pharmacy/medicines optimisation workstreams.
Work with cluster lead pharmacists and place based teams to ensure delivery of the Medicines Optimisation Strategy and Operational Plan.
Support the GM Chief Pharmacist in quality and performance issues relating to pharmacy/medicines optimisation services
Provide specialist advice and prepare strategic reports and briefings for directors, regional teams and stakeholders.
In depth analysis, interpretation and production of complex and multiple reports.
They will manage assigned members of the team and deputise for the Chief Pharmacist/Deputy Chief Pharmacist when required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Pharmacist GPhC registered
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent
- Experience of change management and integration across health and social care settings
Skills
Essential
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Persuade board and senior managers of the respective merits of different options, innovation and new opportunities.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Capability to implement medicines governance processes, including risk management across a large geography
- Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances.
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting, management of budget and mitigations and working knowledge of financial processes.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Pharmacist GPhC registered
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent
- Experience of change management and integration across health and social care settings
Skills
Essential
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Persuade board and senior managers of the respective merits of different options, innovation and new opportunities.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Strategic thinking - ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
- Capability to implement medicines governance processes, including risk management across a large geography
- Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances.
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting, management of budget and mitigations and working knowledge of financial processes.
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).