Lead Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist (City & Hackney)

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 72,000 - 84,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a motivated pharmacist to join the North East London ICB team. The role involves leading medicines optimisation initiatives, overseeing projects, and providing expert clinical input. Ideal candidates will have relevant pharmacy qualifications and extensive experience in community and/or hospital pharmacy. This is a part-time, fixed-term maternity cover position based in Canary Wharf, London.

Benefits

Support for professional development

Inclusive working environment

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in Pharmacy.
• Competency assessed and examined professional registration.
• Extensive community and/or hospital pharmacy experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the team delivering medicines optimisation.
• Oversee projects to support strategy and objectives.
• Provide expert clinical pharmacy input.

Skills

Community pharmacy experience

Hospital pharmacy experience

Supervisory skills

Consultation skills

Education

MPharm or equivalent qualification

Professional registration with General Pharmaceutical Council

Postgraduate qualification (clinical/managerial diploma)

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated pharmacist to join the North East London (NEL) ICB Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation team. The team works as a multi-disciplinary group of individuals, who operate with a broad range of skills and experience. We are key enablers for collaboration and integration across all health and social care partners in the NEL Integrated Care System. As a team player you will be supported to fully commit to this way of working, especially with regards to transformational work with medicines and pharmacy.

Job overview

This post is a fixed term maternity cover based in the NEL ICB Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation team. The post holder leads the team delivering on medicines optimisation within the designated place of City and Hackney and will contribute to the development of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation strategy across NEL and the London Region. The team provides an effective and professional medicines optimisation service to our local boroughs as well as matrix working across boroughs and with our stakeholders. The post holder will lead on the safe, quality and cost-effective use of medicines, that is evidence based, by implementing the principles of medicines optimisation.

Main duties

Main Duties:

• Leads at borough level, driving transformation as well as value for money in planning, commissioning, development of patient pathways and services with regards to Medicines Optimisation
• Oversees projects to support the delivery of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation team strategy and objectives. This includes responsibility for ensuring the planning, development and delivery of medicines optimisation projects
• Provides expertise, experience and leadership in medicines at place based level as well as across the Integrated Care System
• Provides expert clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation input to a designated clinical specialty, network or initiative as required
• Leads at place, the management of risks associated with medicines, ensuring risks are recorded, regularly reviewed and mitigations are undertaken and reported as appropriate. Supports the investigation of medicines related incidents and complaints and facilitates systems to implement best practice

About us

NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formed on 1 July 2022.

We are an exciting new organisation putting the needs of communities at the heart of our commissioning arrangements.

We are working with local people and partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector in innovative ways to improve health and wellbeing for all our communities. Our key priority in the next year will be to develop closer integrated and collaborative ways of working with all our partners to implement our Out of Hospital Strategy.

We can only do this with great staff who are encouraged and supported, which is why we invest in them, listen to them, make sure we are representative of our populations and that we foster their health and wellbeing.

Please note that all vacancies will be subject to a 6 months' probation period in line with the Probation Policy.

Details

Date posted: 24 September 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 8b

Salary: £72,921 to £83,362 a year pro rata inc HCA

Contract: Secondment

Working pattern: Part-time

Reference number: 161-NELICB-2727

Job locations: 20 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5HJ

Job description

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full duties and responsibilities.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in Pharmacy - MPharm or equivalent qualification
• Competency assessed and examined professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council of Great Britain
• Additional postgraduate qualification or equivalent (clinical/managerial diploma)

Experience

• Extensive, community and /or hospital pharmacy experience or experience of providing prescribing support to primary care organisations or practices.
• Experience of effectively responding to medicines information queries and supervising and training others to do the same.
• Experience of using local and national data to support the development and monitoring of patient pathways.
• Experience of successful multiprofessional working

Knowledge

• Working knowledge of legislation, national guidance, governance and financial frameworks which relates to medicines supply, prescribing and practice.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of safe, quality and cost-effective use of medicines, that is evidence based, by implementing the principles of medicines optimisation

Other

• Able to supervise a team

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: NHS North East London

Address: 20 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5HJ

Employer's website: northeastlondon.icb.nhs.uk