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Job summary

Main area
Medicines Optimisation
Grade
8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref
116-6922231
Employer
NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Bridge House, Sleaford
Town
Sleaford
Salary
£62,215 - £72,293 Pro-Rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/04/2025 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

System Programme Manager - Medicines Optimisation

8b

NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board has been established to support the wider health and social care needs of the population of Lincolnshire and will focus on to deliver its agreed vision of ‘Better Lives for the people of Lincolnshire’.

This includes:

  • Improving the health of children and young people.
  • Supporting people to stay well and independent.
  • Acting sooner to help those with preventable conditions.
  • Supporting those with long-term conditions or mental health issues.
  • Caring for those with multiple needs as populations age.
  • Getting the best from collective resources so people get care as quickly as possible.

Job overview

The post holder will work as a member of the NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board Integrated Medicines and Optimisation Team, which is part of the Medical Directorate.

 

This role is a strategic role, responsible for providing leadership in delivery of the System Medicines Optimisation (MO) agenda in Lincolnshire. It is responsible for development of a Lincolnshire System Integrated Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation (IPMO) strategy and work plan and responsible for driving and monitoring the day-to-day activity associated with the strategy and work plan, including managing risks, interdependencies and stakeholders and facilitate delivery of national and local health policy with respect to prescriptible medicines and devices.

This role will work closely with the ICB Chief Pharmacist, System IPMO SRO, System Partner Chief Pharmacists and other key system stakeholders.

This role requires an extensive knowledge of medicines optimisation, a proven track record in programme management and a background in pharmacy and medicines optimisation. 

Main duties of the job

·       The post holder is responsible for leading the planning and implementation of an agreed programme portfolio of MO initiatives in line with the IPMO system strategy.

·       The postholder is responsible for managing programme level dependencies, risks, issues, and financials and escalating where appropriate through agreed governance routes.

·       Provide quality assurance over key project management processes including planning, scheduling, risk and issue management, change control management and reporting to maintain the overall integrity of the programme.

 

·       Liaise with other Programme Managers to ensure strategy-related projects are aligned to the right programme and scoped to avoid overlap with other activity.

·       Lead on the implementation of specific areas of the Lincolnshire Medical Directorate and Lincolnshire Integrated Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation work plan relevant to their area.

·       Use highly specialist knowledge to act as Medicines Optimisation lead for high cost drug commissioning processes, governance and assurance, including identification of gaps in current commissioning and development and implementation of solutions.

·       Lead on strategic development and commissioned implementation of high cost drugs biosimilars in Lincolnshire to reduce lost opportunity to a minimum while maintaining patient safety and quality outcomes.

Working for our organisation

NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Lincolnshire delivering the commitments set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.

As a strategic commissioner we are responsible for meeting the needs of our population through commissioning high quality services. We seek to improve patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer more choice. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it’s important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally.

In conjunction, with patient experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing increasing financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (in alignment to the ICS 5 year strategic plan) which broadly fall into three types of scheme; system wide transformation, system wide efficiency, ICB only efficiency.

The ICB will promote good governance and proper stewardship of public resources in pursuance of its goals and in meeting its statutory duties. Good corporate governance arrangements are critical to achieving the ICB’s objectives and financial sustainability.   

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy. 

·       The post holder is responsible for leading the planning and implementation of an agreed programme portfolio of MO initiatives in line with the IPMO system strategy.

Person specification

Essential and desirable

Essential criteria
  • Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council or equivalent professional body.
  • Master’s degree in health and management discipline or related equivalent experience or Professional knowledge acquired through post-graduate degree or equivalent level, management qualification or equivalent experience.
  • Highly developed specialist clinical knowledge acquired through post-graduate degree or equivalent level management qualification or equivalent experience
  • Highly developed specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate degree or equivalent level management qualification or equivalent experience
  • Have or working towards PRINCE 2 Practitioner or equivalent project management or with a proven background of successful project delivery.
  • Significant experience of working in provider and commissioner NHS organisations
  • Significant experience of managing projects and leading change projects and delivering them within agreed timescales and budgets in a clinical environment
  • Significant experience of commissioning Annex A High Cost Drugs
  • Proven experience in facilitating relationships and achieving goals using a coaching and nurturing style and ability to hold partners to account if trajectories not achieved.
  • Significant working experience in Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation
  • Experience of identifying and interpreting national policy, including an understanding of its aims and effect on engagement
  • Successful track record of overseeing and delivering service improvements Has experience of working with complex data and can demonstrate excellent analytical skills ensuring both robust analysis and clear presentation of data to a wide range of audiences
  • Ability to develop credible working relationships and stakeholder management at SRO level, Programme/Project teams and amongst peers and colleagues within the health economy.
  • Ability to gain in depth knowledge of the area of delegated responsibility/project matter.
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills
  • Demonstrate honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values and consistently delivers corporate messages
  • Used to working in a busy environment. Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
  • Ability to travel across multiple sites where required
Desirable criteria
  • Proven managerial experience at a senior level within a complex organisation
  • Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems. 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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Claire Hart
Job title
Programme Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Yinka Soetan

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07890901649

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