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Address
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-5000-24 Vacancy ID: 6672958

Senior Pharmacist, Governance

Closed for applications on: 14-Oct-2024 00:01

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Closed for applications on: 14-Oct-2024 00:01

Location

The Council House
First Floor, Corporation Street
Derby
DE1 2FS
Derbyshire

Contract type & working pattern

11 months (Secondment opportunity until 31-Aug-25)
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
  • Compressed hours
37.5 hours per week

Salary

£53,755 - £60,504 pa, pro-rata
Yearly

(NHS AfC: Band 8a)

Specialty

Pharmacy
Interview date
23/10/2024

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

Following a secondment, a senior role has become available within the Pharmacy Directorate Team, which is part of the Medical Directorate. 

 Supporting various workstreams in delivering high quality, safe and effective care across care pathways within Joined Up Care Derbyshire, you will be providing operational expertise to an experienced, redesigned, Pharmacy Team moving into its next chapter as an ICB, working with the wider healthcare system to integrate pharmacy and medicines optimisation.

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

This post is offered as a fixed term or secondment opportunity until 31st August 2025.  Candidates should ensure they have their employers support, in line with their employers processes, prior to making a secondment application. 

Interviews will be held on 23rd October

 

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  •         Develop, implement and monitor standards for medication safety and safe prescribing
  •       Support the ICB Patient Safety Specialist with medication safety and safe prescribing
  •       Support the ICB to meet Controlled Drugs (CD) responsibilities
  •       Support, lead and/or manage relevant incidents involving medicines and prescribable products 
  •       Participate in the investigation of never events, safeguarding issues and serious incidents
  •       Share knowledge and awareness of the patient safety agenda and learning from incidents across the ICB and ICS, through local networks and national information
  •       Promote, influence and enhance a culture of medicines safety across the health economy by involving stakeholders, including patients and the public
  •       Liaise with other ICB and ICS teams in the development of medication safety awareness and learning across the ICB and ICS
  •       Actively participate in and contribute to regional and national medicines safety officer networks; sharing learning and resources as relevant
  •       Work with the Head of Pharmacy to develop and implement Antimicrobial Stewardship across Derbyshire
  •       Support the ICB’s infection prevention and control team with the delivery of local and national infection control targets by providing advice on treatment and prescribing
  •       Support the Head of Pharmacy with pharmaceutical input to Emergency Preparedness, Resilience and Response (EPRR) and liaison with the OCC

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

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification.   To apply, please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB - this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site.  You will need to register if you do not already have an account

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
  • Current professional registration as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Postgraduate diploma / MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or Pharmacy Practice (or working towards such a qualification) or equivalent experience
  • Experience of working in more than one sector of pharmacy i.e. primary care, secondary care or community pharmacy
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of GP practice clinical systems and how the individual practices employ the use of them
  • Knowledge and ability to produce, analyse, present and interpret in-depth analysis of highly complex prescribing and financial trends and local and national comparators

Communication skills

Essential criteria
  • Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups

Analytical skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options

Planning skills

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrated capability to plan over short-, medium- and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly

Management Skills

Essential criteria
  • Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others

Management skills

Desirable criteria
  • Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals

Values

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

Documents

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Vijay Rai
Job title
Head of Pharmacy, Governance
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07468758338

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