Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical and Corporate Governance

• Contribute to the management of clinical, financial and corporate risks and patient safety issues relating to medicines use.
• Implement the management of appropriate strategies for clinical governance and controls assurance for community pharmacy functions in collaboration with other directorates, partners, and local stakeholders.
• Advise on medicines related safety and governance liaising with clinicians, managers, multidisciplinary teams, executive leads, and appropriate external agencies and networks as required.
• Co-operate with community pharmacy investigations, support follow up of remedial action and that lessons learned are captured and disseminated locally.
• Provide highly specialised advice on medicines use and prescribing to improve patient care and outcomes. This includes advice to investigations into Community Pharmacies, GPs, other non-medical prescribers, health and social care staff.
• Support community pharmacy research, development projects and best practice.
• Support the delivery of emergency and winter resilience plans.
• Establish effective working relationships with practice staff including non-medical prescribers and community pharmacists in order to influence their prescribing behaviour and deliver the community pharmacy agenda.

Specialist area

• Provide expert specialist professional pharmaceutical advice, support and input to the appropriate commissioning processes, service and pathway development and reviews, service improvement and transformation work programmes relating to community pharmacy, enabling safe, affordable and appropriate use of medicines within the allocated resources and in line with the local vision and strategy.
• Support the Associate Medical Director (Pharmacy) in ensuring the monitoring and performance management of community pharmacy contracts and service level agreements for services commissioned by ICBs.
• Develop and implement systems and processes to identify, monitor, challenge and address unwarranted clinical variation in medicines optimisation and/or prescribing practice such as using prescribing indicators and benchmarking data.
• Responsible for information management such as the retrieval, analysis and interpretation of community pharmacy data to ensure appropriate planning, monitoring and review of community pharmacy services.
• Work with ICB specialist pharmacists and leads, Finance, Specialised Commissioning and the acute trusts to support the development of robust contractual and pharmaceutical arrangements to ensure cost effective, value for money and facilitate early identification and mitigation of areas of concern regarding funding.

Service Redesign, Innovation and Continual Improvement

• Identify, review and assess opportunities and threats of new and innovative models of care and service delivery, aligning these to the organisational strategy.
• Responsible, as applicable to designated lead area, for proposing and drafting changes, implementation and interpretation to policies, guidelines and service level agreements which may impact services and specialist area.
• Ensure patient and public involvement within the community pharmacy agenda by working directly with patients, carers and patient support groups.

Staffing

• Support the Associate Medical Director (Pharmacy) with workforce planning, recruitment, development, management, training and work distribution
• Line management of staff, including conducting their annual appraisals with regular review of development plans throughout the year to assess progress. Manage the delivery of teaching and development interventions
• Fulfil own mandatory continual professional development (CPD) in line with recommendations from the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and personal development plan (PDP) in line with Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB appraisal system. Regularly update knowledge, self-direct learning and attend relevant courses where necessary.

Person Specification

Skills and Capabilities

Essential

• Able to source and retrieve and then critically appraise and analyse information and evidence and to communicate the findings clearly in simple terms, where there may be barriers to communication. Able to deliver key messages succinctly and professionally both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution
• Ability to work flexibly and manage change in a complex and changing healthcare environment. Able to work under pressure, prioritise effectively and deal with frequent interruptions. Ability to move between details and the bigger picture.
• Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills and ability to retrieve information from the Internet.
• Strong record of excellent inter-personal, negotiating, influencing, problem solving and presentation skills.
• Tact and diplomacy in responding to requests for information from healthcare professionals and the public.
• Ability to plan and prioritise work with good organisational and time management skills
• Takes responsibility for own actions, has a high degree of self-motivation and is able to work on own initiative with professional credibility and confidence
• Ability to establish, develop and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of healthcare professionals
• Self-motivated, works with confidence, flexibility and self-reliance. Able to work individually and as part of a team. Demonstrates team working skills.
• Ability to develop and implement strategies and can demonstrate a disciplined approach to setting and achieving objectives.
• Can evaluate quality of work / service through development and implementation of service review and audit.
• Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
• Ability to identify new roles and overcome obstacles in a changing environment, demonstrating the ability to steer the team accordingly.
• Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level. Good verbal and written presentational skills for conveying complex concepts. Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others
• Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values. Embraces change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Demonstrates good understanding of the legal, governance and ethical framework within which pharmacists, GPs and primary care organisations work.
• Broad clinical and pharmaceutical knowledge
• Knowledge of NHS initiatives, policy and developments and how they relate to community pharmacy and medicines optimization.
• Understands Government policy and vision for the development of primary health and social care.
• Understanding of Confidentiality and Data Protection Act and commitment to Clinical and Information Governance agendas
• Awareness of equality and valuing diversity principles. Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda.
• Understanding of motivational theory and key behaviour influences on clinical professional behaviour
• Understanding of primary care in the context of the NHS as a whole and Government policy and vision for the development of primary health and social care, including an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy in Nottingham and Nottinghamshire and the implications of this on engagement
• Understanding and working knowledge of GP clinical and primary care information systems
• Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
• Experience of working in a clinical setting
• Experience of multidisciplinary working
• Experience in training and education of both staff and other healthcare professionals, both individually and in groups.
• Experience of conducting audit work
• Experience of development and implementation of strategic objectives, plans and policies as well as project management and leading defined projects. Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time and evaluation and monitoring, including risk identification and management.
• Experience of managing and supervising other staff
• Experience of evidence based medicine and critical appraisal and knowledge about where to obtain relevant and up to date clinical and regulatory information
• Experience of working in a primary care organisation
• Experience of working with external partners such as the voluntary sector, local authority or social services
• Experience of working with and analysing prescribing data, including e.pact.net
• Experience in presentation to managers and other MDT groups

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
• Pharmacist registered with the GPhC
• Diploma/MSc in Prescribing Sciences/Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy practice or equivalent clinical experience or extensive knowledge of specialist areas through equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge
• Uses reflective practice for personal and professional development.
• Takes personal responsibility for Continuing Professional Development, as evidenced by portfolio.

Other

Essential

• Willingness to attend meetings or training outside of normal working hours if given advanced notice
• Valid driving license and access to own transport

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website .

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board

Address

Sir John Robinson House

Arnold

NG5 6DA