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Job overview

The role in Surrey Heartlands requires the development and implementation of the Surrey Heartlands Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisations strategic delivery plan in relation to antimicrobials, ensuring it develops in line with local, regional and national directives. Incorporating antimicrobial strategies across whole care systems pathway work, providing expert pharmaceutical advice and guidance to staff working at all levels within Surrey Heartlands. To work within the Surrey Heartlands Antimicrobial and Infection Prevention and Control structures providing expertise in relation to medicines optimisation in prescribing antimicrobials promoting safe, clinically and cost-effective prescribing within Surrey Heartlands.

The post holder will be required to communicate in an appropriate way, highly complex information with a broad range of stakeholders including Board members, primary and secondary care prescribers, and patients to achieve the optimum use of antimicrobials within our system.  This role requires strong expert leadership in areas where there are often significant barriers to acceptance when discussing prescribing policies with prescribers.

Main duties of the job

This role will lead strategic redesign and delivery in relation to antimicrobial medicines optimisation across Surrey Heartlands.  It will require working across complex patient pathways in collaboration with system stakeholders across primary, secondary, community and social care.

The role will be responsible for the development and implementation of the Surrey Heartlands Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisations strategic delivery plan in relation to antimicrobials, ensuring it develops in line with local, regional and national directives.

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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.

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.

We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability.

As part of the organisation’s commitment to achieving equality of opportunity for all staff, Surrey Heartlands ICB will consider all requests for flexible working on hiring. For most roles, the following types of flexibility are usually possible: flexible hours, compressed hours, part-time hours and/or job-sharing, and homeworking.

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about any flexible working arrangements you would prefer or require. While we may not be able to fully accommodate all requests, such requests will not be referenced during the interview scoring process, and we will fully consider and try to accommodate them for successful applicants.

In accordance with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, Surrey Heartlands Integrated Care Board will not discriminate against or dismiss the applications of candidates with spent convictions for posts which are not exempt from this legislation.