Lead Pharmacist Medicines Optimisation Delivery

NHS South East London Integrated Care Board; Royal Borough of Greenwich; Presencial; GBP 75.000 - 86.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

NHS South East London Integrated Care Board is seeking a Lead Pharmacist for Medicines Optimisation Delivery to drive strategy and implementation at Place and neighbourhood levels. You will work with a multidisciplinary team, managing medicines optimisation, safety, quality, and value, in line with the NHS 10 Year Plan and local priorities.

The post involves collaboration across boroughs within the ICB and across organisational boundaries to deliver improvements in medicines use and population

Formación

• Current registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Experience in development, transformation and delivery of medicines and long term conditions services.
• Experience co-producing and delivering cross-sector projects in complex environments.
• Experience leading prescribing budgets and business planning processes.

Responsabilidades

• Lead delivery of medicines optimisation strategies at Place and neighbourhood NHS models of care, improving outcomes.

Conocimientos

Risk identification

Decision making under uncertainty

Educación

Current registration with General Pharmaceutical Council

Descripción del empleo

NHS South East London Integrated Care Board

Lead Pharmacist Medicines Optimisation Delivery

The closing date is 15 November 2026

The SEL ICB Medicines Optimisation programme is responsible for £250 million medicines expenditure in primary care and leads an extensive programme of medicines and pharmacy transformation in SEL ICB. This role will lead delivery of the medicines optimisation function at Place and neighbourhood, working closely with the strategic commissioning multidisciplinary team, supported by the ICB Chief Pharmacist, Associate Chief Pharmacists, Consultant Pharmacists, and colleagues.

Main duties of the job

The Lead Pharmacist, Medicines Optimisation Delivery will focus on the delivery of strategies and actionable plans at Place, to deliver the best possible health outcomes for the SEL local population with a greater focus on prevention, personalised care and health inequalities, informed by clear intelligence and insights in relation to population and service provision, aligned to the NHS 10 Year Plan. They will lead the support for primary care and neighbourhood NHS models of care at Place in enhancing outcomes from medicines, including medicines value, safety, and overall quality improvement. The post holder will also work collaboratively across boroughs within the medicines optimisation delivery team to facilitate the efficient implementation of "do once and share" functions.

About us

In 2025, the boards of NHS South East London ICB and NHS South West London ICB took the decision to enter into a clustering arrangement. This means that we share a chair, chief executive officer and an executive team, but we remain as separate, statutory organisations.

This also means that the ICBs will share some teams, who will be working across both organisations. Some teams will also be working across both geographical areas and integrated care systems. This is a period of change for the NHS. The Government's 10 Year Health Plan presents an ambitious vision for a future NHS, with emphasis on the three 'shifts' - from hospital to community, from analogue to digital, and from cure to prevention - all underpinning the new neighbourhood health service.ICBs are also changing, with a clear focus on strategic commissioning and delivering neighbourhood working.

This is an exciting time to work within our ICBs. We currently have the opportunity both to shape the future of our clustered organisations, and to be part of a radical transformation of care for the local people and communities across south London. And while our two ICBs are different in some ways, improving lives for the people we serve is at the core of what we are both here to do. Please note as you can only be employed by one ICB, this job description refers to 'the 'ICB', but your role may cover both ICB organisations, and / or geographical areas.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for details on the main responsibilities.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• Current registration with General Pharmaceutical Council

Experience & Knowledge

• Experience of development, transformation and delivery of medicines and long term conditions services and implementation of personalised care.
• Demonstrated experience of co producing and delivery of cross sector projects in highly complex and challenging environment.
• Experience of managing prescribing budgets, service budgets and business planning processes
• Experience of leading a specialist team, service changes and developments.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
• Ability to understand a broad range of highly complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.

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.

NHS South East London Integrated Care Board

£75,328 to £86,114 a yearper annum inclusive of Inner London HCAS