Deputy Clinical Director - Medicines Optimisation and Digital Services

NHS Jobs; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Deputy Clinical Director to lead medicines optimisation and digital services across the network. You will influence prescribing policy, redesign pathways and shape service models while ensuring robust medicines governance and oversight.

You will support the Clinical Director in strategy implementation, engage stakeholders, coaches staff, and drive efficiency and innovation across network services within the Trust priorities.

Qualifications

• Senior clinical leader with experience across organisational boundaries.
• Experience in medicines optimisation, governance and prescribing policy.
• Strong leadership to develop network-wide strategies and service models.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and delivery of a network-wide medicines optimisation and prescribing strategy.
• Provide expert clinical leadership for medicines governance across prescribing pathways.
• Drive change in digital aspects to improve network efficiency and delivery of services.
• Oversee senior staff engagement and workforce succession planning.

Job description

Deputy Clinical Director - Medicines Optimisation and Digital Services

Strategy/Planning: To support the Clinical Director to contribute to the strategy of the Trust taking into account national and local initiatives. To support the Clinical Director and Network leaders to the Network strategy and to ensure that this takes into account Care Group and Trust strategy. To lead the development and delivery of a Network wide medicines optimisation and prescribing strategy, aligned to Trust priorities and national frameworks. Operate as a senior clinical leader across organisational boundaries, influencing prescribing policy, pathway redesign and service models, whilst ensuring robust medicines governance and oversight. Advise Network, Care Unit and Care Group leaders on medicines-related risk, governance, innovation, and service development opportunities. To support the Clinical Director to implement of plan within transgender health and be aware of the impact of these plans on the wider network, the Care Group and other Trust services. To support the Clinical Director to ensure clinical, stakeholder and frontline staff engagement in the Service and Care Units strategic priorities, visions, and values. Where relevant to the Network, and in conjunction with the Senior Leadership Team, support the Clinical Director, to create strong strategic partnerships and collaborative relationships with Commissioners, Specialist Commissioners, other Trusts, local authorities, voluntary, private and academic sector agencies, locally, regionally and nationally which support performance, delivery and business development. To support, develop and coach employees that want to develop as part of the ongoing succession planning. Organisational Development: To build effective multi-functional prescribing services. Provide expert clinical leadership for medicines optimisation and governance across all prescribing pathways. Where relevant embedding evidence based prescribing standards or other relevant clinical guidelines to ensure prescribing is safe and effective. To empower and motivate across the Network to effect change in order to achieve efficient working. To innovate in digital aspects to support the Network become efficient in the delivery of service Lead therapeutics decision making, formulary development and prescribing policies across the Network Support complex clinical decision making and act as a senior escalation point for prescribing issues To develop effective communication mechanisms within the Network To ensure an understanding of the Networks business and its strategic objectives To lead change management processes across Medicines Optimisation, digital and service development within the Network. Resource Management: Working with the other Deputy Clinical Directors, Clinical Director and Operational Leadership to ensure all resources within the Network are utilised as effectively and efficiently as possible. Hold senior responsibility for medicines-related financial stewardship, ensuring value for money and delivery of efficiency targets Lead CIP programme related to prescribing and medicines use. Contribute to business cases, commissioning decisions and service investment planning. Quality Management: To ensure a safe, effective, and efficient patient service that is equally accessible to all patients within the resources available Provide Network leadership for medicines governance, safety and quality improvement Lead the delivery of clinical audit, prescribing quality indicators and patient safety programmes Ensure compliance with medicines legislation, regulatory frameworks and best practice standards Oversee management of high-risk medicines, incidents, and variation in prescribing practice. The post holder will ensure that the services within their area of responsibility meet quality indicators both those determined internally by the Trust and those set externally by the NHSE/I, Commissioners of the Service and CQC Performance Management: Establish systems for monitoring prescribing KPIs, clinical outcomes and performance. Drive improvement through data led insight, benchmarking and variation analysis Ensure regular review and monitoring against key performance indicators. To establish and maintain effective communication with all Staff on all policy and clinical/nonclinical issues. Clinical Working Practice: To plan and provide support and medicines related interventions in the community as described in the patient care section below: To lead and be responsible for the induction, training plans and supervision to new pharmacy professional team members and other professionals joining the service whose roles involve medicines/prescribing. To ensure that new team members meet the competency requirements for their role through their training plan, supervision, and education to meet the needs of patients and the service. To accept responsibility for maintaining a safe working environment for all staff and patients. To provide specialist advice and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to patients treatment plan. To carry out other tasks as requested by the Clinical Director To participate as required within the Trust pharmacy leadership team To provide leadership and clinical supervision for the MDT in providing professional support on a national basis as part of the NCTHnet Adult Services. To ensure agreed data and outcome measures are instituted with agreement with commissioners and support from the academic arm of NCTHnet

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust