Senior Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist

Job summary

**Please note this vacancy is only accepting applications from current staff members of the ICB and NECS***

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced medicines optimisation pharmacist to join our medicines optimisation team. At North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board, we are committed to providing high-quality care and support to our community.

Main duties of the job

You will have a strong understanding of primary and secondary care, a good clinical background and excellent report writing and communication skills. Working closely with a wide variety of colleagues and stakeholders you will provide expert professional pharmaceutical advice and support the development, implementation, and monitoring of the medicines strategy; promoting evidence based, cost effective prescribing across the ICB and contracted services.

About us

Our Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the largest in the country.

The ICB is responsible for ensuring that high quality and safe health services are accessible to all of our communities. It has a wide range of functions, including; promoting integration of health and care services, improving peoples health and well-being, reducing health inequalities.

With a £ billion budget and a workforce of 170,000 people across the North East and North Cumbria. As well as strategic functions, ICB staff also work at place level with local health and wellbeing boards in each of our 14 local authority areas. These teams also work alongside our 67 primary care networks which are groups of local GP practices, social care teams and other community- based area providers.

The ICB works with our Provider Collaborative too, this includes the 11 NHS Foundation Trusts in the region, to deliver our shared priorities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be lead development of policy and service improvement for your own specialist areas on behalf of the medicines optimisation service, providing strategic and operational leadership.

If you love a challenge, are self-motivated with a drive to get things done and can take other on the journey then this job is for is an ICB wide post is for wte, but will be aligned to Northumberland and North Tyneside.

This is an ICB wide post is for wte, but will be aligned to Northumberland and North Tyneside.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Pharmacy masters degree or equivalent 1 year pre-registration training Post-graduate diploma Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council Evidence of ongoing CPD

Desirable

Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience

Desirable

Experience of working in a primary care organization Experience of delivering training experience Experience of service development Experience of guideline development and implementation Experience of commissioning

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