Job summary

We are recruiting for a motivated Foundation 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.

The NEL Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation team is working to achieve equitable access and outcomes of medicines for local people across North East London, working with a wide range of stakeholders and professionals to deliver outputs for our residents that support cost effective, safe prescribing with access to evidence-based medicines.

We are looking for a keen individual who will be a key part of the Primary Care and Places team and provide medicines optimisation advice to stakeholders. You will encourage clinical excellence, amongst local health and care professionals in relation to medicines, across primary care and the interface with secondary care and promote high quality safe use of medicines across the ICS.

Joining our team will give you the support and opportunity to further develop your skills and abilities as you navigate working across both the ICB Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Team and the wider ICS.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to maintain constructive relationships with the following internal and external roles, teams, departments and organisations:

NEL wide Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation team members, including Deputy Directors of Medicines Optimisation, Heads of Medicines Optimisation and the Pharmacy and MO Contracting and Commissioning team

NEL ICB complaints and enquiries teams

Primary Care Networks

General Practices and all practice staff

Community Pharmacies and Community Pharmacy Integration Team

NHS Acute and Mental Health Provider Trusts and Community Health Service Providers

Clinical and care professionals and practitioners

Local Pharmaceutical Committees

Local Authority organisations in NEL

Non-Statutory agencies e.g. voluntary and independent sector organisations

Patient/Carer representatives

Community Pharmacy and Primary Care Commissioning Leads

Academic Health Science Network

About us

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.