Job summary
SCW requires an experienced and diligent pharmacist, with a desire to work within the NHS, ensuring value for public money and helping to improve outcomes for patients. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic pharmacist to work alongside fellow pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, clinicians and colleagues across SCW. The post holder will input into the development and delivery of clinical services which will make a difference to patients.
Main duties of the job
The role will work with a wide range of stakeholders in the South West region to deliver a pharmaceutical advisory service in health and justice medicines optimisation.Health and Justice experience is desirable, but we would also consider candidates with experiences in leadership roles in other settings. There is also the potential opportunity for the post holder to act as a pharmacy subject matter expert, working on wider SCW projects. The post holder will have in-depth knowledge of NHS initiatives, policy and developments as well as the legal, governance and ethical framework within which pharmacists, primary care organisations, provider trusts, and commissioners work.
Main duties of the post holder include, but not limited to:
- Lead the health and justice pharmaceutical advisory service for the South West region.
- Lead and deliver high quality services, ensuring that both commissioned and provider services are founded on established evidence-based and clinically effective care.
- Provide pharmacy expert advice and project management to assist SCW customers in developing legal, safe, cost-effective, and best value NHS services, with an emphasis on identifying and reducing unwarranted clinical variation and ensuring an effective integration across systems and integrated care models.
- Ensure that clinical effectiveness and best practice are embedded into planning and transformation of clinical services across SCW.
About us
The post holder will join the small but expanding Medicines Optimisation team, working with the Clinical Services Programme Lead and members of the Medicines Optimisation team.
As a team we value openness and being supportive to one another. We strive towards effective and excellent consultancy delivery to our customers. The tasks and projects/clinical areas that the team is involved in are varied - so the ideal candidate will need to have a can-do attitude; ability to work alone diligently as well as in a team; and be willing to work on a variety of projects and/or tasks that may be outside of their comfort zone.
You will be working within a challenging NHS environment and will need to be highly adaptive, flexible, and autonomous.
There are a range of sites within the SCW footprint, and it is possible for the working base for this role to be agreed to suit the ideal candidates. This role is Agile and will be a mix of home working, face-to-face meetings, and site visits.Access to car and the ability to travel between county-wide locations is therefore essential for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Undertake site visits and face-to-face meetings as required.
- Communicate and/or present complex clinical and technical information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders where appropriate.
- Build effective partnership working with internal and external stakeholders.
- Undertake site visits and face-to-face meetings as required
Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details and information regarding this role
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Undertake site visits and face-to-face meetings as required.
- Communicate and/or present complex clinical and technical information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders where appropriate.
- Build effective partnership working with internal and external stakeholders.
- Undertake site visits and face-to-face meetings as required
Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details and information regarding this role
Person Specification
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Patient First - Customer Excellence
- Aspirational
- Collaborative
- Insightful
- Respectful
- Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
- Personal commitment to the values of the NHS Long Term Plan, the principle of 'equivalence', the NHS People Plan, Nolan Principles and the Fit and Proper Persons regime.
- Demonstrates a compassionate leadership style with a track record of improvements to equality, diversity, inclusion, and social justice
- Values diversity and difference, and lives by the values of openness and integrity and has created cultures where this thrives
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation
- Committed to continuing professional development inspiring this in others
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness
Education
Essential
- Registered as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Member of relevant professional body (Clinical)
- Significant experience in the fields of Health and Justice and/or leadership role in medicines optimisation, handling and governance within an organisation or health sector.
- Knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape and an understanding of the social determinants of public and offender health
Desirable
- Sound knowledge of health and care financial planning and budgeting at a corporate and/or system level
Skills & Capabilities
Essential
- Excellent customer service and stakeholder management skills
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Effective organiser
- Professional calm and efficient manner
- Strong critical thinking and strategic problem solving; the ability to contribute to a joint strategic plan and undertake problem resolution and action. Analytical rigour and numeracy
- Exceptional communication skills, including oral, written and presenting, which engender confidence, strong collaborations, and partnership
- Commitment to personal, team and organisational development
- Experience of a range of Microsoft software and systems use
- Ability to prepare and produce concise communications for dissemination to a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Ability to create and give presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Experience of managing risks and issues
- Experience of planning, managing and co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Capability to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals
- Experience of leading a team without direct line management responsibilities
- Experience of effective partnership working with internal and external stakeholders
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills
- Experience of financial reporting
Desirable
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Experience of multi-agency team working and developing relationships across organisational boundaries within the public sector
- Management of whole systems change projects
- Knowledge of financial systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement; business planning processes
- Experience of managing a budget
Person Specification
Values & Behaviours
Essential
- Patient First - Customer Excellence
- Aspirational
- Collaborative
- Insightful
- Respectful
- Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality, promotes high standards to consistently improve patient outcomes
- Personal commitment to the values of the NHS Long Term Plan, the principle of 'equivalence', the NHS People Plan, Nolan Principles and the Fit and Proper Persons regime.
- Demonstrates a compassionate leadership style with a track record of improvements to equality, diversity, inclusion, and social justice
- Values diversity and difference, and lives by the values of openness and integrity and has created cultures where this thrives
- Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
- Uses evidence to make improvements, seeks out innovation
- Committed to continuing professional development inspiring this in others
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness
Education
Essential
- Registered as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Member of relevant professional body (Clinical)
- Significant experience in the fields of Health and Justice and/or leadership role in medicines optimisation, handling and governance within an organisation or health sector.
- Knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape and an understanding of the social determinants of public and offender health
Desirable
- Sound knowledge of health and care financial planning and budgeting at a corporate and/or system level
Skills & Capabilities
Essential
- Excellent customer service and stakeholder management skills
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Effective organiser
- Professional calm and efficient manner
- Strong critical thinking and strategic problem solving; the ability to contribute to a joint strategic plan and undertake problem resolution and action. Analytical rigour and numeracy
- Exceptional communication skills, including oral, written and presenting, which engender confidence, strong collaborations, and partnership
- Commitment to personal, team and organisational development
- Experience of a range of Microsoft software and systems use
- Ability to prepare and produce concise communications for dissemination to a broad range of stakeholders as required.
- Ability to create and give presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Experience of managing risks and issues
- Experience of planning, managing and co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
- Capability to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals
- Experience of leading a team without direct line management responsibilities
- Experience of effective partnership working with internal and external stakeholders
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills
- Experience of financial reporting
Desirable
- Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- Experience of multi-agency team working and developing relationships across organisational boundaries within the public sector
- Management of whole systems change projects
- Knowledge of financial systems e.g. monitoring budget management, processing invoices and procurement; business planning processes
- Experience of managing a budget
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).
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