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About
NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) was established in July 2022 (prior to this the ICB was a Clinical Commissioning Group).
At the heart of health decision making will be our Integrated Care Board (ICB), delivering our shared strategic priorities within the NHS and connecting to partnerships across Northamptonshire Integrated Care System.
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Medicines Optimisation Administrator
Closed for applications on: 23-Jul-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 23-Jul-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board
- Address
- Haylock House
- Town
- Kettering
- Postcode
- NN15 6EY
- Major / Minor Region
- Northamptonshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 5)
Specialty
- Main area
- Administrative
Our vision for the future of Northamptonshire’s health and care services is for a positive lifetime of health, wellbeing and care in our community.
Our mission in working together, the reason we do what we do, is to empower positive futures. Wherever we work and whatever our role we all want people in Northamptonshire to be able to choose well, stay well, live well.
Each day our values will help to guide our decisions and what is most important to us:
- Our patients and our local population come first
- We work together in an open and accountable way
- We trust, challenge and support each other
- We do what we say we will do.
Job overview
As a Medicines Optimisation Administrator, you will provide a comprehensive administrative service for the ICB Medicines Optimisation team. You will be responsible for coordinating administrative activities for the team, including scheduling, circulation of papers and minute taking. Efficient invoice processing will also be required. The post holder will be a point of contact for dealing with Medicines Optimisation inquiries and as such will require excellent communication, organisational and analytical skills.
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As our Medicines Optimisation Administrator, you will:
- Provide comprehensive administrative/secretarial support to the ICS Chief Pharmacist and the wider ICB Medicines Optimisation team
- Develop and co-ordinate support systems to ensure the efficient running of the department.
- Contribute to the availability of medicines related information via the Primary Care Portal by administration of relevant documents.
- Act as an initial point of contact for enquiries from professionals, managers, and members of the public.
- Service the meetings of the Integrated Medicines Optimisation Committee and its sub-groups as appropriate.
- Support the processing of Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM), insulin pump and Hybrid Closed Loop (HCL) system requests liaising with commissioning, procurement, finance, and suppliers.
- Act as authorised signatory for ICB liaising with NHS Business Services Agency to notify organisational and prescriber changes. This is to ensure accurate prescribing costs to the correct prescriber and prescribing budget and provide accurate and detailed prescribing information.
- Use NHS Business Services Agency ePACT2 to obtain routine prescribing information and present in report form.
Working for our organisation
The Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a statutory body responsible for local NHS services, functions, performance and budgets. It is directly accountable to the NHS and is made up of local NHS trusts, primary care providers and local authorities.
We are a collaborative team, based at Haylock House in Kettering, but working in a hybrid way. We contribute to services across the health economy and through delivery of the Integrated Care Northamptonshire (ICN) 10-year strategy, support people in Northamptonshire to live their best lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached job description and person specification for details of the responsibilities associated with this post.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Person specification
Essential criteria
- NVQ qualification or equivalent knowledge or competencies.
- Suitable experience in an administrative and/or data analysis role.
- Numerate and/or able to manipulate statistical data.
- Knowledge of administrative procedures, project management or information analysis.
- Effective communication skills. This includes developed interpersonal, negotiation, influencing and conflict management skills, where the subject matter is complex and/or sensitive.
- Developed analytical and problem-solving skills will be required for assessment of facts or situations.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team
- Prioritisation skills with ability to manage multiple strands of work.
Desirable criteria
- Working experience of clinical pharmacy and knowledge of the terminology.
- Understanding of prescribing information.
- Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Maxine Foster
- Job title
- ICS Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07974854123
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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