Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated pharmacist to join the fabulous North East London (NEL) ICB Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation team. The team works as a multi-disciplinary group of individuals, who operate with a broad range of skills and experience. We are key enablers for collaboration and integration across all health and social care partners in the NEL Integrated Care System. As a team player you will be supported to fully commit to this way of working, especially with regards to transformational work with medicines and pharmacy.

This post is based in the NEL ICB Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation team. The post holder leads the team delivering on medicines optimisation within the designated place and contributes to the development of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation strategy for Mental Health across NEL. The team provides an effective and professional medicines optimisation service to our local boroughs as well as matrix working across boroughs and with our stakeholders. The post holder will lead on the safe, quality and cost-effective use of medicines, that is evidence based, by implementing the principles of medicines optimisation.

Please note this part time post is offered on a fixed term contract.  Applicants who have previously applied for this post will not be considered at this time. Interviews will aimed to be held week commencing 17th November 2025. 

Main duties of the job

Lead Medicines Optimisation pharmacists will be expected to spend up to 50% of their time providing clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation leadership to the mental health workstream. This will include the commissioning of Clinical Pathways and representing the Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Team in system wide clinical network meetings. This may involve working under the supervision of a different Deputy Director or Head of Medicines Optimisation.

• Leads at borough level, driving transformation as well as value for money in planning, commissioning, development of patient pathways and services with regards to Medicines Optimisation
• Oversees projects to support the delivery of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation team strategy and objectives. This includes responsibility for ensuring the planning, development and delivery of medicines optimisation projects
• Provides expertise, experience and leadership in medicines at place-based level as well as across the Integrated Care System
• Provides expert clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation input to a designated clinical specialty, network or initiative as required
• Leads the place-based team that supports GPs, non-medical prescribers and other health and care professionals in the safe use of medicines, evidence-based prescribing, cost-effective management of the prescribing budget and support local and national measures

Working for our organisation

NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formed on 1 July 2022.

We are an exciting new organisation putting the needs of communities at the heart of our commissioning arrangements.

We are working with local people and partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector in innovative ways to improve health and wellbeing for all our communities. Our key priority in the next year will be to develop closer integrated and collaborative ways of working with all our partners to implement our Out of Hospital Strategy.

We can only do this with great staff who are encouraged and supported, which is why we invest in them, listen to them, make sure we are representative of our populations and that we foster their health and wellbeing.

Please note that all vacancies will be subject to a 6 months' probation period in line with the Probation Policy.