Job summary
- Main area
- Registered pharmacy professionals
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 990-LON-6471968-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wellington House
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £83,571 - £96,376 per annum (inclusive of HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Regional Senior Pharmacy Integration Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8d
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
Regional Senior Pharmacy Integration Lead, band 8d
The Regional Senior Pharmacy Integration Lead is a strategic post open to registered pharmacists or pharmacy technicians to provide clinical leadership for the regional delivery of the Pharmacy Integration programme.
The London region pharmacy and medicines optimisation team is motivated and friendly. We offer a supportive and stimulating environment with opportunities for personal growth as well as professional development.
Main duties of the job
They will particularly support implementation of the Primary Care Access Recovery Plan and integration of Primary Care Network medicines optimisation and community pharmacy clinical services, pilots and projects into wider local healthcare pathways to fully realise their potential to improve population health.
The successful candidate will work closely with colleagues across London, engaging with multiple partners and stakeholders. They will ensure appropriate clinical governance is in place for services and provide clinical professional expertise. Building and maintaining relationships will be a key skill for the role to provide a collaborative leadership approach that is sensitive and sympathetic to the unique challenges faced by patients, members of the public, health professionals and service managers.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Full details can be found in the attached Job Description.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Pharmacist or Pharmacy Technician registered with GPhC
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area
- Proven and significant leadership experience and/or formal management qualification
Desirable criteria
- Member of relevant professional body
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Must have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England, and individual provider and commissioning organisations
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work with and influence a wide range of health and social care stakeholders across differing agendas
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to communicate on highly complex matters and difficult situations
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jon Hayhurst
- Job title
- Regional Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07718130490
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