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Deputy Director Medicines Supply, DHSC
3 months ago
Job summary
The Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) has one of the most important and demanding agendas in Government, as well as one of the most important missions � to help people live better for longer.� Millions of people rely on the work we do to lead, shape and fund health and care across England, making sure that people have the support, care and treatment they need, with the compassion, respect and dignity they deserve.
In the Medicines Directorate, we work to help make sure patients can access the best available treatments, whilst ensuring value for money from the medicines budget and helping to support a flourishing life sciences sector. At the heart of this agenda is our work helping to ensure a reliable supply of medicines to the health system, so that we can all be confident of getting the medicines we need when we need them.�
As Deputy Director for Medicines Supply, you will lead a diverse team of around 25, including pharmacists and policy professionals, responsible for managing supply disruptions and shortages, and improving the resilience of the medicines system and our ability to prevent shortages. You will work very closely with NHS England, with the pharmaceutical industry, and with other parts of DHSC and HMG, to ensure a joined-up approach to tackling these challenges.
We are looking for a confident and experienced leader, able to set and deliver a strategic vision and manage complex risks. You should be comfortable working at pace and under pressure, able to challenge and partner with senior stakeholders, and skilled at continuously improving your team�s delivery.
Job description
The Medicines Directorate is responsible for the regulation, pricing, supply and prescribing of medicines. It works to help ensure patients can safely and reliably access the medicines they need. It aims to support value for money from the medicines budget, access to the best medicines innovation, and a flourishing life sciences sector.�
Medicine supply chains are global and complex. Supply disruptions can occur for a wide range of reasons � such as manufacturing problems, distribution disruptions, regulatory issues or surges in demand. DHSC, working closely with NHS England, plays a vital role in managing disruptions to medicine supply to minimise impacts on patients, and helping to prevent shortages from occurring in future.
The role of the Deputy Director for Medicine Supply is to lead a high performing, diverse team to respond to and manage shortages and lead the policy and delivery of measures to prevent them. The team works in close partnership with NHSE, the Devolved Administrations, MHRA and industry.
Key Responsibilities�
Shortage management: Leading the regular management of shortages and discontinuations of medicines to minimise risks to patients; including continuous improvement of the tools we use to manage supply issues; development of the DaSH portal through which issues are notified to us; further strengthening communications to health system professionals.
Long-term resilience policy: Leading work to develop measures to strengthen resilience of the UK medicine supply chain, working closely with NHSE, industry and others. Developing innovative policies and actions, building the delivery plans, and seeing them through to implementation.
Improving horizon scanning and risk assessment: Including improving our data infrastructure to better track supply and demand and identify risks; identifying� medicines at risk of supply disruption before risks materialise; and ensuring appropriate mitigation plans are co-ordinated and developed.
Industry engagement: Establishing and maintaining close and constructive relationships with industry, including relevant trade associations and individual companies, to foster better information sharing and collaboration.�
Strengthening system working: Ensuring strong joint working across health system partners and wider stakeholders to ensure improved insight, policy and delivery across this set of responsibilities.
Person specification
It is important through your CV and Statement of Suitability that you give evidence and examples of proven experience of each of the following Essential criteria:
Exceptional leadership skills, able to confidently lead a team to deliver at pace and under pressure, and continuously improve a team�s performance;Strong problem solving skills; experience of leading and delivering solutions in a challenging and changing environment � such as in an incident management context;Strong strategic and creative policy skills, with a record of developing and delivering policies that deliver long-term impact;Ability to engage with and interrogate data, evidence and operational detail;Experience of working effectively with industry as well as wider stakeholders to achieve strategic priorities and goals;Strong written and verbal communication with proven ability to advise and convince senior executive level leaders of the appropriate course of action.Desirable criteria:
Working knowledge of the medicines supplies chain;Commercial skills and experience.Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
LeadershipCommunicating and InfluencingSeeing the Big PictureManaging a Quality ServiceBenefits
Alongside your salary of �75,000, Department of Health and Social Care contributes �20,250 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.Whatever your role, we take your career and development seriously, and want to enable you to build a really successful career with the Department and wider Civil Service. It is crucial that our employees have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead, and you�ll benefit from regular performance and development reviews to ensure this development is ongoing. As a Civil Service employee, you�ll be entitled to a large range of benefits.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service values and supports all its employees.�
We have strong and pro-active staff networks, special leave policies for hospital appointments, reasonable adjustments put in place for those who need them, and diversity talent programmes to help everyone irrespective of background, to achieve their potential.
Pension
Your pension is a valuable part of your total reward package.
A competitive contributory pension scheme that you can enter as soon as you join where we will make a significant contribution to the cost of your pension; where your contributions come out of your salary before any tax is taken; and where your pension will continue to provide valuable benefits for you and your family if you are too ill to continue to work or die before you retire. Visit scheme for more details.
Generous Annual Leave and Bank Holiday Allowance
25 days annual leave on entry, increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years� service. This is in addition to 8 public holidays.
This will be complimented by one further day paid privilege entitlement to mark the King�s Birthday.
Staff Wellbeing
Flexible working including part-time or time-term working and access to Flexible Working Schemes allowing you to vary your working day as long as you work your total hours.
Generous paid maternity and paternity leave which is notably more than the statutory minimum offered by many other employers.
Childcare benefits (policy for new employees as of 5 April 2018): The government has introduced the Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) scheme. Working parents can open an online childcare account and for every �8 they pay in, the government adds �2, up to a maximum of �2000 a year for each child or �4000 for a disabled child. Parents then use the funds to pay for registered childcare. Existing employees may be able to continue to claim childcare vouchers, so please check how the policy would work for you here.
Onsite facilities Opportunity to use onsite facilities including fitness centres and staff canteens (where applicable).�
