Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 256-SH-6980685
- Employer
- NHS Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Horizon House
- Town
- Epsom
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 Per Annum, Pro rata plus 5% high cost allownace
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading

Part Time - Specialist Lead Pharmacist - Diabetes -B8B
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
This post is based within the Surrey Heartlands Medicines Resource Unit (MRU). The MRU is the clinical co-ordination hub for Pharmacy & Medicines Management. It provides the mechanisms to support the safe and cost-effective management of medicines across all partner organisations in Surrey Heartlands ICB.
This post will lead strategic redesign and delivery of diabetes medicines related services across Surrey Heartlands. You will work across complex patient pathways in collaboration with system stakeholders across primary, secondary, community and social care.
Main duties of the job
Develop and implement the Surrey Heartlands Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisations strategic delivery plan in relation to diabetes.
Support the diabetes whole care systems pathway work, providing expert pharmaceutical advice and guidance to staff working at all levels within Surrey Heartlands.
Promote rational, cost-effective prescribing within Surrey Heartlands.
Working for our organisation
Surrey Heartlands is a partnership of organisations working together - with staff, patients, their carers, families, and the public - to support people to live healthier lives. Surrey Heartlands developed into an Integrated Care Board (ICB) since July 2022, working through 4 Integrated, dynamic, and sustainable place-based partnerships (our Places), each working together to deliver a shared vision across Surrey.
The 4 Place partnerships are known as:
North West Surrey Alliance
Guildford and Waverley Alliance
Surrey Downs Health and Care
East Surrey Place
We have an ambitious vision for transformation and continuous improvement of health and care across our footprint and to deliver our objectives we need a team of capable, collaborative professionals who share the same vision. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes.
We welcome all applications, especially those from underrepresented communities, including people with a disability, and those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information regarding the role, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Training
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent in Pharmacy
- Current Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Post Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma/MSc qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of sustained personal and professional development
Desirable criteria
- Qualification as Independent Prescriber
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good understanding of quality improvement methods to support implementation of policy or new services
- A well-developed understanding of current health and social care issues and policy
Desirable criteria
- Membership of regional / national / international specialist interest groups relevant to field of practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Appropriate and current clinical experience in diabetes
- Experience of effective partnership working with internal and external stakeholder
- Proven experience of working at a strategic level with senior clinicians, other healthcare professionals and managers
- Proven medicines related policy development and implementation
- Experience of developing and maintaining a safety culture
Desirable criteria
- Proven experience of working at a strategic level across the wider health community
- Experience of delivering significant change across organisational boundaries
- Experience of commissioning or equivalent e.g. medicines procurement
Analytical
Essential criteria
- The drive to bring rigorous analysis to data and situations, to see cause and effect, to make objective judgements and understand financial and service implications
- Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources (verbal, written and numerical)
Communication & Relationship Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent influencing/presentation skills
Management Skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience of managing a team (Formal management qualification)
Planning Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to plan over short, medium and long -term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
Equality and Diversity
Essential criteria
- Embrace authentic allyship to improve engagement with equality, diversity and inclusion and be culturally competent and aware
Autonomy
Essential criteria
- Successfully manage potentially antagonistic situations with stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes, often dealing with complex and conflicting issues
- Demonstrable ability to use autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation
Financial and Physical Resources
Essential criteria
- Experience or managing budgets or managing large programmes with significant resources
- Provision of drug usage and expenditure reports and use of financial reports to influence business cases and clinical practice
Desirable criteria
- Proven budget management or monitoring ability
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Watkin
- Job title
- Head of Medicines Resource Unit
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07825 364457
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