Senior Medicines Optimisation Clinician – Commissioning & Contracting

Nhs Kent And Medway Integrated Care Board; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Job summary

NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board is seeking a Senior Medicines Optimisation Clinician to provide expert clinical, technical and strategic input for medicines commissioning, contracting, quality assurance and performance management across Kent and Medway.

The role focuses on specialist medicines, high-cost drugs and medicines optimisation programmes to deliver safe, effective, equitable and cost‑effective care across care settings.

Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacist or Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and evidence of continuing professional development.
• Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy, prescribing, advanced practice, leadership or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead and advise on commissioning and contracting of medicines and appliances in specialist settings, ensuring value for money and governance.
• Provide advanced medicines optimisation expertise to support strategic commissioning and pathway redesign across care settings.
• Connect prescribing, financial, contractual, quality, safety and patient experience data to identify risks and opportunities for improvement.
• Review medicines-related complaints, incidents, audits and provider assurance reports to inform commissioning decisions.
• Support procurement processes and service delivery contracts with third party providers, ensuring robust medicines safety and governance.

Skills

Medicines optimisation

Commissioning

Contracting

Data analysis

Communication

Influencing

Leadership

Quality improvement

Education

GPhC registration

Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy

Job description

Job summary

The Senior Medicines Optimisation Clinician - Commissioning & Contracting provides advanced clinical, technical and strategic expertise to support medicines commissioning, contracting, quality assurance and performance management across Kent and Medway. The role focuses on specialist medicines, high cost drugs, commissioned pharmacy services and medicines optimisation programmes, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, equitable and cost effective care.

Main duties of the job

• Lead and advise on the commissioning and contracting of medicines and appliances prescribed in specialist settings, ensuring clinical effectiveness, value for money and appropriate medicines safety and clinical governance arrangements are in place.
• Provide advanced medicines optimisation expertise to support strategic commissioning, quality and safety, pathway redesign and integration of pharmacy services across care settings.
• Connect prescribing, financial, contractual, quality, safety and patient experience data to identify emerging risks, trends, opportunities and priorities for improvement.
• Review of medicines related complaints, incidents, audits, provider assurance reports and service feedback, ensuring themes and learning are identified and used to inform commissioning decisions and service improvement.
• Support procurement processes, including service delivery contracts with third party providers (e.g. home oxygen and online non-prescription ordering services), ensuring robust medicines safety, clinical governance and risk management arrangements are in place.

About us

We are committed to a culture that supports all staff at NHS Kent and Medway to be the best version of themselves.

Our ability to improve outcomes for our population depends on how effectively clinical, operational, financial and strategic professionals work together to make informed commissioning decisions. That's why our workforce works a minimum of two days-a-week on-site, with the expectation that all one-to-ones are held face-to-face and that colleagues will regularly visit the services we are commissioning to understand more about them.

We believe regular on-site working supports stronger collaboration, faster problem-solving, peer learning, visible leadership and the integration of colleagues into our organisation. We also know that culture is built through shared experiences and day-to-day interactions.

We are a flexible working friendly organisation; we aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.

We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal and access to training opportunities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.

Job responsibilities

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.

Qualifications and Professional Registration

Essential

• Registered Pharmacist or Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Relevant postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy, prescribing, advanced practice, leadership or equivalent.

Relevant Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in medicines optimisation, commissioning, contracting, service development, specialist medicines, high-cost drugs and governance or safety programmes.

Desirable

• Experience supporting procurement processes, contract negotiations, business case development, commissioning frameworks or system-wide transformation programmes.

Analytical and Strategic Skills

Essential

• Experience analysing complex clinical, financial, quality, safety and performance data and using findings to inform decision-making, service improvement and commissioning recommendations.

Desirable

• Experience developing and presenting reports, business cases, assurance papers or recommendations to senior stakeholders, committees or system partners.

Communication and Influencing Skills

Essential

• Evidence of communicating complex information to clinicians, commissioners, providers and senior stakeholders and influencing decision making.

Desirable

• Experience presenting to senior leadership teams, governance committees or system-wide groups.

Medicines Commissioning, Governance and Service Improvement

Essential

• Experience supporting medicines governance, quality improvement, service redesign, incident review, audit or implementation of medicines-related policies and guidance.

Desirable

• Experience leading commissioning programmes, pathway redesign or value based medicines optimisation initiatives.

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

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