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NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB
Derby City Council House
Corporation Street
Derby
Derbyshire
DE1 2FS
Contact Number
01332 981601

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Ref: 996-ICB-4902-24 Vacancy ID: 6592841

Head of Pharmacy - Integration & Place

Closed for applications on: 16-Sept-2024 00:05

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Closed for applications on: 16-Sept-2024 00:05

Location

Derby & Derbyshire ICB, Council House
Corporation Street
Derby
DE1 2FS
Derbyshire

Contract type & working pattern

Permanent
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
  • Compressed hours
37.5 hours per week

Salary

£62,215 - £72,293 pa, pro-rata
Yearly

(NHS AfC: Band 8b)

Specialty

Pharmacy
Interview date
27/09/2024

NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the health statutory body for the Derby City and Derbyshire population. ICSs are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined-up services and to improve the health of people who live and work in their area. Serving a total population of 1,053,000 with a budget of over £1.6 billion the ICB has a staff base of approximately 500 people.

At DDICB we are passionate about making diversity and inclusion part of our DNA. We have staff engagement forums, a diversity and inclusion network run by and for our people and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. Together, we are building an inclusive culture, where difference is celebrated and people feel able to bring their whole self to work.

We are a disability confident employer and offer a range of family friendly, flexible working arrangements and inclusive employment policies, to support our people in the workplace.'

Job overview

An important senior role has become available within the Pharmacy Directorate Team, which is part of the Medical Directorate.  Supporting the Assistant Director of Pharmacy, you will be providing leadership to an experienced, redesigned, Pharmacy Team into our next chapter as an ICB, working with the wider healthcare system to integrate pharmacy and medicines optimisation.

We are seeking an experienced Pharmacist with leadership skills, including managing teams, strategic planning and delivery, resource management, building and maintaining stakeholder networks.

You will support the Associate and Assistant Directors of Pharmacy and the work of the Medical Directorate in delivering high quality, safe and effective care across Joined Up Care Derbyshire.

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Main duties include to:

  • Lead place based functions across the North East Derbyshire & Bolsover, High Peak, Dales & Glossop geographical areas, working closely with the other Heads of Pharmacy with place based responsibilities
  • Support the work of the Medical Directorate in delivering high quality, safe and effective care across care pathways within Joined Up Care Derbyshire whilst delivering Population Health Management, prevention and the effective reduction in Health Inequalities;
  • Lead on the effective planning, development, and delivery of specific areas of the Derbyshire Pharmacy Directorate Team and system programmes and work plans; this may include extend to the management of key projects/ services including their staff management;
  • Co-ordinate and manage the work of the Pharmacy Directorate Team and provide them with regular mentorship and training to ensure a co-ordinated approach across Derbyshire;

·       Establish and maintain an effective working relationship with providers including clinicians, pharmacists, technicians and the ICB in order to influence prescribing and commissioning behaviour according to ICB policy;

  • Lead on the integration of pharmacy professionals across the ICS ensuring development of ICS pharmacy and multidisciplinary networks;
  • Lead on professional pharmaceutical advice and guidance to immunisation and vaccinations including COVID vaccinations and liaison with the VOC

Working for our organisation

At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you.  Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.  If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Below is a summary of the duties of the role (please see the job description and person specification for full details):

·                  The post holder is responsible for providing professional expertise to the outcome of the business processes for the Department or Directorate;

·                  The post holder will define current processes, facilitate discussions and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of future processes, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery;

  • ·                  Lead the effective planning, development and delivery of the ICB’s Pharmacy Directorate Team plan and ensure its delivery for designated strategic areas;

·                 Guide future developments in pharmacy, medicines, prescribing and related fields at the planning and implementation stages. This will require the ability to consider a range of options and their implications;

·                 Actively support and take part in ICB visits to providers when necessary, preparing information and reports required for visits;

·                 Work collaboratively with the Pharmacy Directorate Team, ICB and ICS teams to provide a co-ordinated approach to lead on agreed projects for the benefit of the ICB and ICS. Support the Chief Pharmacy Officer, Associate/Assistant Directors of Pharmacy in their strategic role and deputise where required;

·                 Lead the development and management of key Pharmacy Directorate Team meetings; actively participate in meetings as required;

·                 Manage change in prescribing behaviour through audit, prescribing and specialist advice in order to promote quality, and cost-effective prescribing across the ICB and the ICS;

·                 Pharmaceutical lead for long term condition area(s) to provide pharmaceutical and medicines expertise and support to wider ICB and ICS programmes;

·                 Guide future developments in prescribing, pharmacy and related fields at the decision making, planning and implementation stages as relevant to the specific post. This will require the ability to consider a range of options and their implications;

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Person specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area;
  • Pharmacy degree, and educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area;
  • Diploma or MSc in clinical pharmacy or pharmacy practice, or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area;
  • Significant experience of working in a primary care organisation specialist prescribing advisory role;
  • Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council;
  • Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development;
  • Experience or working within a multidisciplinary team including GPs and other prescribers;
  • Experience of clinical audit, change management, strategic development, project management and leadership;
  • Experience of staff management;
  • Experience of performance management including budgetary;

Analytical

Essential criteria
  • Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery;

Planning Skills

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time.

Autonomy

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales

Values

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrate the behaviours that underpin the ICBs core value of 'One Team'

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Lesley Gant
Job title
Assistant Director of Pharmacy
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Alternative contact: Jane Roberts, Assistant Director of Pharmacy, [email protected]

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Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
1st Floor Kingsway House (Entrance D)
Kingsway
Derby
DE22 3LZ
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07900 135638
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