Job summary
- Main area
- Integrated Health and Care Services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 891-CSU-7800WH
- Employer
- NHS South Central and West Commissioning Support Unit
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SCW CSU
- Town
- Oxford / Reading / High Wycombe / Swindon (Hybrid)
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist
Band 7
We want SCW to be a great place to work, where we all feel safe and can be our authentic selves. This means valuing and respecting everyone from all backgrounds and embracing equality, diversity, inclusivity & wellbeing across everything we do. We are committed to listening, learning and improving on our approach to ensure these principles remain at our heart, helping us all to thrive.
Job overview
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.
SCW is committed to our process of redeployment of at-risk members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Main duties of the job
The role will work with a wide range of stakeholders in health and care to deliver pharmacy and medicines optimisation projects. Experience in variety of settings (e.g., primary care/ secondary/ community/ health and justice) and/ or leadership role is essential. 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.
Working for our organisation
To find out more about what SCW has to offer, please visit Our offer to you page.
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.
If you would like an informal chat please contact [email protected] or [email protected].
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main duties of the post holder include, but not limited to:
- Deliver, and lead work streams or elements within the medicines optimisation portfolios.
- 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.
- 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 criteria
- Patient First – Customer Excellence
- Aspirational
- Collaborative
- Insightful
- Respectful
Education
Essential criteria
- Pharmacy Degree
- Postgraduate Certificate, Diploma or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience
- Member of General Pharmaceutical Council and committed to continuing professional development
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Member of relevant professional body
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management
- Experience of medicines optimisation and delivery of medicines optimisation projects
- Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals
Desirable criteria
- Experience of pharmacy services across a range of settings eg. Hospital, Secure Environments etc
Skills & Capabilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent customer service skills
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust
- Attention to detail and ensures accuracy
- Effective organiser
- Professional calm and efficient manner
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change and working outside of comfort zone
- Ability to work alone diligently and within a team
- Commitment to personal, team and organisational development
- High level communication skills, including oral, written and presenting
- 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 setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
- 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 without direct line management responsibilities
- Experience and ability to undertake evidence reviews and apply findings to service development and improvement
- Experienced in undertaking clinical and quality audit and interpreting findings
Desirable criteria
- Experience of multi-agency team working and developing relationships across organisational boundaries within the public sector
- Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with analytical skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Kim Tie
- Job title
- Recruiting Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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