• Job Description

  Req#: D9116-24-0020?language=en&page=252&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  Lead Clinical Pharmacist

  Agenda for Change: Band 8b

  Permanent Full Time (37.5 hours per week).

  NHS Lincolnshire ICB are pleased to advertise for a Lead Clinical Pharmacist, who will be key to driving our medicines optimisation agenda with our Medicines Optimisation ICB team. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced pharmacist with an excellent leadership record who is both enthusiastic and forward-thinking. Working closely with stakeholders across the system to facilitate the delivery of National and local health policy with respect to medicines and devices.

  This role will also ensure appropriate clinical pharmacy input into all Lincolnshire pathways, programmes and initiatives.

  Our Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Project Managers, and Data Support staff are committed to improving the quality of prescribing and helping our patients get the very best from their medicines.

  This role will also ensure appropriate clinical pharmacy input into all Lincolnshire pathways, programmes and initiatives.

  This role is for a qualified and registered pharmacist

  Main duties of the job

  The post holder is responsible for providing professional expertise to the outcome of the business processes for the Team, Directorate or ICB.

  The post holder will define current processes, facilitate discussions and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of future processes, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery.

  Co-ordinate and manage the work of the Team

  About us

  NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Lincolnshire delivering the commitments set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.

  As a strategic commissioner we are responsible for meeting the needs of our population through commissioning high quality services. We seek to improve patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer more choice. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it's important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally.

  In conjunction, with patient experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing increasing financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (in alignment to the ICS 5 year strategic plan) which broadly fall into three types of scheme; system wide transformation, system wide efficiency, ICB only efficiency.

  The ICB will promote good governance and proper stewardship of public resources in pursuance of its goals and in meeting its statutory duties. Good corporate governance arrangements are critical to achieving the ICB's objectives and financial sustainability.

  Date posted

  22 March 2024

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 8b

  Salary

  £58,972 to £68,525 a year per annum

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  116-6084634

  Job locations

  Bridge House, Unit 16 The Point

  Lions Way

  Sleaford

  NG34 8GG

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Advise on safe and effective prescribing processes and contribute to the development and maintenance of clinical effectiveness, audit and risk management strategies where medicines or medical devices are involved to reduce errors and minimise risk.

  Establish and maintain an effective working relationship with providers including clinicians to influence prescribing and commissioning behaviour according to ICB policy.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Advise on safe and effective prescribing processes and contribute to the development and maintenance of clinical effectiveness, audit and risk management strategies where medicines or medical devices are involved to reduce errors and minimise risk.

  Establish and maintain an effective working relationship with providers including clinicians to influence prescribing and commissioning behaviour according to ICB policy.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Pharmacy degree, and educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
  • Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
  • 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

  Skills

  Essential

  • Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level
  • Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills

  Skills

  Essential

  • Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda
  • Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop Self-motivated

  Skills

  Essential

  • Ability to work as part of a team and work flexibly to provide support to other departments and teams as and when necessary
  • Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales and interpreting national policy for implementation

  Skills

  Essential

  • Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time

  Previous experience

  Essential

  • Knowledge of evidence-based medicine, needs assessment, effectiveness, prioritisation and appropriateness including critical appraisal

  Previous experience

  Essential

  • Experience of performance management including budgetary Previously responsible for a budget/ involved in budget setting
  • Experience of staff management

  Previous experience

  Essential

  • Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy in the area and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
  • Experience or working within a multidisciplinary team including GPs and other prescribers

  Previous experience

  Essential

  • Significant experience of working in a primary care organisation specialist prescribing advisory role
  • Experience of working with hospital and community pharmacy or other pharmacy field

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Pharmacy degree, and educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
  • Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
  • 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

  Skills

  Essential

  • Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level
  • Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills

  Skills

  Essential

  • Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda
  • Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop Self-motivated

  Skills

  Essential

  • Ability to work as part of a team and work flexibly to provide support to other departments and teams as and when necessary
  • Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales and interpreting national policy for implementation

  Skills

  Essential

  • Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time

  Previous experience

  Essential

  • Knowledge of evidence-based medicine, needs assessment, effectiveness, prioritisation and appropriateness including critical appraisal

  Previous experience

  Essential

  • Experience of performance management including budgetary Previously responsible for a budget/ involved in budget setting
  • Experience of staff management

  Previous experience

  Essential

  • Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy in the area and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
  • Experience or working within a multidisciplinary team including GPs and other prescribers

  Previous experience

  Essential

  • Significant experience of working in a primary care organisation specialist prescribing advisory role
  • Experience of working with hospital and community pharmacy or other pharmacy field

  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).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board

  Address

  Bridge House, Unit 16 The Point

  Lions Way

  Sleaford

  NG34 8GG

  
  

  Employer's website

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

  Employer details

  Employer name

  NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board

  Address

  Bridge House, Unit 16 The Point

  Lions Way

  Sleaford

  NG34 8GG

  
  

  Employer's website

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

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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