Job summary
- Main area
- Medicines Optimisation
- Grade
- NHS AfC Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term / Secondment for up to 12 months - maternity leave cover)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 487-SELICB-1046
- Employer
- NHS South East London Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 160 Tooley Street
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £64,156 - £71,148 pro rata per annum inclusive of Inner HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Pharmacist - Integrated Medicines Optimisation
NHS AfC Band 8a
Job overview
The South East London Integrated Care Board (SEL ICB) brings together the health and care partners that serve our vibrant and highly diverse populations across the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark.
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and committed pharmacist to join the South East London Medicines Optimisation Team on a fixed-term basis (up to 12 months) to cover maternity leave. The team reflects the ICB’s values of improving health outcomes, reducing inequalities, delivering medicines value and ensuring a thriving, financially sustainable health system that provides safe, high-quality care for local people.
You will join a well-established medicines optimisation and pharmacy network across South East London, working collaboratively to harness and build on collective expertise to drive improvement.
This post is one of two Senior Pharmacist roles in the Integrated Medicines Optimisation Team. Please note, this recruitment is for one of these posts only. The Senior Pharmacist for Integrated Medicines Optimisation works across SEL Integrated Care System (ICS) to support delivery of a defined portfolio of our SEL Transforming and Integrating Medicines Optimisation (TIMO) programme.
Please note: enquiries from recruitment agencies will not be responded to.
Main duties of the job
Working collaboratively with their counterpart, the postholder will lead on selected portfolio areas to support delivery of SEL medicines optimisation priorities. Operating in a matrix management style, they will share responsibilities and provide cross-cover with their counterpart as required.
By engaging and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders, the postholder will support:
- The coordination and delivery of the SEL Integrated Medicines Optimisation Committee (IMOC) – a multidisciplinary, clinical decision-making forum for medicines-related matters.
- The development of high-cost drug pathways and outcomes frameworks through agreed SEL IMOC specialist sub-groups.
- The work of the SEL Medicines Value Group.
The postholder will also work with the Chief Pharmacist, Associate Chief Pharmacists and place-based teams to deliver pharmacy leadership, integration objectives and opportunities for safe, cost-effective prescribing.
Working for our organisation
The South East London Integrated Care Board (SEL ICB) brings together the health and care partners that serve our vibrant and highly diverse populations resident in the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Greenwich - our Places.
The SEL ICB is the NHS management unit of the Integrated Care System (ICS). It is accountable both to NHS England and to the South East London Integrated Care Partnership (ICP). The ICS exists to deliver four core purposes:
- Improve outcomes in South East London population health and health and care services
- Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access suffered by the residents of South East London
- Enhance productivity and value for money in the in the use of health and care resources in South East London
- Help the NHS support broader social and economic development in South East London.
The ICS is not an intermediate management tier and fundamental to the operating model of the ICS are three fundamental principles:
- Partnership: We are a partnership of sovereign bodies coming together to achieve something greater than the sum of the partners. All partners have a voice and all partners have responsibility.
- Subsidiarity: We work on the basis of subsidiarity. This means issues and decisions should be dealt at the most local level consistent with their effective resolution.
- Accountability: We value both supporting each other and being held to account by each other and our wider partners.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details of the role’s responsibilities.
You will be based at the SEL ICB headquarters at 160 Tooley Street in London with travel to other sites within the ICB as needed. Whilst this role is full time (37.5 hours per week), applications from those who are able to work a minimum of 30 hours per week, or are applying on a job share basis, will also be considered. Please note that applicants should be available to work on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, which are critical team and meeting days.
Note: This post provides maternity-leave cover for up to 12 months. If the substantive postholder returns earlier than expected, appropriate notice will be given for the fixed term contract to end earlier in line with contractual terms.
Interviews will take place face-to-face at the SEL ICB headquarters at 160 Tooley Street, London. Depending on the number of applications, a two-stage interview process may be employed for this recruitment.
For further information please contact Adeola Olukosi, Lead Pharmacist, Integrated Medicines Optimisation, SEL ICB via email [email protected] or Devika Sennik, Assistant Director Integrated Medicines Optimisation, SEL ICB via email [email protected].
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to master’s level with additional in depth professional knowledge in own discipline
- Current registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Postgraduate qualification in clinical/community pharmacy or equivalent additional experience
- Mandatory Continuing Professional Development to maintain fitness to practice and revalidation
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a complex environment, managing relationships with multiple stakeholders
- Experience of multidisciplinary working
- Extensive, community and /or hospital pharmacy experience or experience of providing prescribing support to primary care organisations or practices
- Experience of supporting GP practices including implementing prescribing change
- Experience of inter-agency working and the development of joint projects.
- Experience of successfully setting up and managing internal processes and procedures
- Experience of working with Medicines Committees or Groups
- Knowledge of developing long term conditions prevention or management services and an understanding of personalised care
- Experience of policy or proposal development
- Knowledge/understanding of national and local policies and strategic issues relevant to medicines and pharmacy
- Extensive experience of negotiating and implementing change in practice
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources
- Capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
- Ability to critically appraise literature in order to analyse, interpret and evaluate clinical papers, clinical evidence, data and information from various sources to make judgements, decisions and provide recommendations
- Ability to assimilate, analyse, interpret and present complex financial and clinical data
- Knowledge of various sources of prescribing data, e.g. ePACT2
- Working knowledge of GP computer systems
- Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Ability to create and give presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to re-prioritise ongoing planned work and projects adjusting to changing requirements and organisational needs
- Highly developed organisational skills - demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate
- The ability to work in partnership with lead clinicians and health care professionals within and outside the ICB and a partnership approach to working across organisations
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Persuading and influencing skills to engage stakeholders to adapt clinical practice in line with medicines optimisation local and national initiatives
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Adeola Olukosi
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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