Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy - Medicines Management
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time, up to to 37.5 hours)
- Job ref
- 110-PST033-0625
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NWJCC, Unit G1, Treforest Industrial Estate
- Town
- Pontypridd
- Salary
- £63,150 - £73,379 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Medicines Management Pharmacist
Band 8b
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
The post holder will work within the Medical team as the Lead Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist to provide professional, timely, expert, evidence-based, safe and cost effective pharmaceutical advice to NWJCC.
They will also provide high quality information and support to stakeholders to deliver improved patient care strongly linked to NWJCC commissioning policies.
They will develop and lead a portfolio of work streams, projects, services, and initiatives in order to deliver NWJCC’s Medicines Optimisation Strategic objectives and priorities.
The post holder will lead on Medicines Optimisation, supporting the development and implementation of the NWJCC Medicines Optimisation Strategy to ensure successful delivery of NWJCC commissioned medicines so the pharmaceutical needs of the population of Wales are met. They will work with NWJCC and NHS colleagues across Wales to commission and manage implementation and delivery of the Medicines Optimisation Strategy and an annual action plan.
Through collaboration and partnership with the service providers, the post holder will work to ensure that Medicines Management across NWJCC commissioned services provides best value for money and optimise use of public funding.
If you're passionate about improving lives and want to be part of a forward-thinking, ambitious team, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for delivering safe, high quality, person-centred medicines optimisation work programs and activities across all services commissioned by NWJCC.
The post holder will be a key member of the NWJCC team whose overarching goal is to enable, promote and support the effective delivery of the medicines optimisation agenda.
A key goal for the Medical Team at NWJCC is to ensure that the pharmaceutical needs of the Welsh population are met whilst maintaining prudent healthcare.
This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable at Level 3 Speaking/Listening (or ‘B1’ Level if you’ve learnt Welsh as an adult). This doesn’t mean you have to be fluent or able to write long reports in Welsh; it just means being able to hold simple conversations with patients. Have a look at the ‘Croeso Candidate!’ guide attached below for more information.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Following the establishment of the NHS Wales Joint Commissioning Committee (NWJCC) on 1st April 2024 and a recent organisational restructure, we are seeking a Lead Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist to support our journey as a newly formed organisation.
The NWJCC is a joint committee of the seven health boards in Wales, with a Chair and Lay Members. We support collaborative commissioning across Wales, with around 120 staff based in Mold and Nantgarw/Treforest.
Our mission to be The Centre of Excellence for Collaborative Commissioning, improving health and care outcomes across Wales. We commission around 220 services, from NHS 111 and ambulance services to specialised rare disease services, and mental health, operating a £1.14bn budget.
In this role, you will join a supportive, inclusive team, working with NHS Wales, Welsh Government, and UK provider organisations. We are seeking individuals who reflect our values of respect, trust, collaboration, and excellence—those who put patients and quality at the centre of everything they do.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent knowledge and experience.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of implementing medicines optimisation initiatives within an NHS setting.
- Planning and implementing significant service developments and organisational change
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of working within clinical commissioning
Aptitude and abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to communicate complex information effectively to all health and care professionals, colleagues, patients
- Excellent clinical and managerial critical appraisal skills enabling effective decision making relating to the adoption of new therapies
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Language Skills Desirable
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Rachel Gemine
- Job title
- Assistant Director, Evidence Evaluation
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07810893910
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