Head of Medicines Optimisation

2 weeks ago

StokeonTrent, United Kingdom NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care Board Full time

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB Medicines Optimisation Team is a single unified team that works across geographical boundaries with a mission to improve health outcomes by maximising on opportunities that are presented by recent expansion of clinical pharmacy services in Primary and Community Care. With the ICB architecture maturing, a rare opportunity has arisen for experienced pharmacists to join the team in senior leadership roles.

Our team reports to the Chief Medical Officer and is organised on the basis of portfolios. As Head of Medicines Optimisation you will lead on a diverse range of projects and programmes with the aim of optimising medicines use in Primary and Community Care and across Primary-Secondary Care Interface. For this role you will need to be a strategic thinker and have extensive experience of managing teams, prescribing budgets, stakeholder relationships and programmes of work.

Although you will be reporting to the Associate Director of Medicines Optimisation, you will have a high level of autonomy and be expected to set strategic priorities for the team based on national policy, local need and data within agreed areas of responsibility.

We expect employees of the ICB to maintain highest standards of public and professional conduct in line with the values and behaviours described in the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICS leadership compact

We have two posts vacant at this level. The two post holders will share management of portfolios relating to:
Primary-Secondary Care Interface which includes formulary management, medicines governance, development and review of treatment pathways and high cost drugs expenditure control. Clinical Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation in General Practice which includes design and delivery of projects on improving quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of prescribing in General Practice.

Clinical Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation in Community Pharmacy which includes optimising uptake of recently released and emerging pharmacy services and commissioning local services

Medicines Safety and Antimicrobial Stewardship

There will be a significant responsibility for the post holders to ensure that the Medicines Optimisation Team supports other directorates in the ICB that have responsibility for portfolios such as Cardiovascular Medicine, Diabetes, Respiratory Medicine, End of Life, Frailty, Mental Health, Immunisation and Prevention.

The Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent NHS Integrated Care Board (ICB) is responsible for planning functions; managing the NHS budget and arranging the provision of health services in the geographical area.

**Location**: Home based/hybrid working (most of posts). Travel on occasions to a Hub location with at least 1 days notice

New starters are expected to collect IT equipment, from offices in Stoke-on-Trent, and if based at home are required to have appropriate desk/chair/ relevant equipment in compliance with DSE regulations.

Posts at Band 8c and above, will take part in the On-call rota, flexible over 7 days, supporting the System Control Centre, with full training provided.

Unconscious Bias/Invisible Disability Training and Equality Induction are mandatory.

Interviews may take place via MS Teams or in person.

Set strategic direction for the portfolio that they are responsible for and that is aligned to the Team Vision and Strategy which in turn is aligned to the nationally and locally agreed aims of the Integrated Care System. The strategy and workplans should be reflected in the ICB annual delivery plan and the ICS Joint Forward Plan.

Heads of medicines optimisation have to ensure that there are systems in place for:
Medicines quality which means supporting effective medicines use in all high priority areas that the integrated care system is targeting to improve health outcomes for the population of Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.

Medicines safety which means reducing risk of drug related harm through proactive and reactive measures.

Medicines finance which means that appropriate controls and mitigations are in place to manage the prescribing budget.

In achieving the above, Heads of Medicines Optimisation have to:
Work and co-operate with ICB Professional and Clinical Leads, ICB managers, local Pharmacy Leaders, and other partners (e.g., local authority) at neighbourhood, place, portfolio, and system level to support delivery of various ICB led work streams. Examples of workstreams include commissioning/redesign of healthcare services, development/review of clinical pathways and shared care across Primary-Secondary care interface.

Negotiate, develop, and manage local contracts or service level agreements with local providers involving receipt and provision of highly complex and sensitive information relating to medicines commissioning and service provision.

Manage relationships with key stakeholders such as General Practitioners, Community Pharmacists and Secondary Care Clinicians.

Engage with th

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