Pharmacist Assistant jobs in United States

This fixed term maternity cover post is 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. Lead Medicines Optimisation pharmacists will be expected to spend up to 50% of their time providing clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation input and leadership to a designated NEL wide clinical specialty, network, medicines programme or other initiative. This may involve working under the supervision of a different Deputy Director or Head of Medicines Optimisation.

• Lead 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.
• Oversee projects to support the delivery of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation team strategy and objectives, including planning, development and delivery of medicines optimisation projects.
• Provide expertise, experience and leadership in medicines at place based level as well as across the Integrated Care System.
• Provide expert clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation input to a designated clinical specialty, network or initiative as required.
• Lead at place, the management of risks associated with medicines, ensuring risks are recorded, regularly reviewed and mitigations are undertaken and reported as appropriate.
• Support the investigation of medicines related incidents and complaints and facilitate systems to implement best practice.

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.

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