Deputy Chief Pharmacist Medicines Governance & Access

North West London Integrated Care Board (NW London ICB) is looking for a Deputy Chief Pharmacist to lead the governance and access for medicines. This role will report into the ICS Chief Pharmacist and will be responsible for working with clinicians across the system to improve the quality of prescribing in specialist pathways and deliver improved health outcomes for patients. You will support the delivery of a NW London wide function focused on ensuring evidence based cost effective medicines use in clinical pathways across providers and primary care. The post holder will be responsible for supporting the system wide delivery of programmes of work such as homecare quality improvement in addition to supporting the delivery by the system wide medicines working groups.

This is an important role which offers an exciting opportunity to experience a diverse portfolio and would suit an experienced leader who is friendly, determined and delivery focused, and is keen to collaborate across organisational boundaries and sectors.

You will need to be a motivated self-starter with significant system leadership experience, and excellent communication skills. You will be able to create effective working relationships with a broad range of people.

The NW London Medicines Optimisation team are involved in leading quality and value focussed projects with system partners across our diverse population which includes many of the most challenged, deprived and vulnerable communities in the country. The NW London Integrated Care System (ICS) covers the eight boroughs of NW London and brings together all health and care organisations working to deliver against the four core national objectives of ICSs, which include improving outcomes in population health and health care, tackling inequalities in outcomes, enhancing productivity and value for money and helping the NHS support broader economic and social development. The NW London Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the statutory NHS organisation, and employer, responsible for developing a plan for meeting the health needs of the population, managing the NHS budget and arranging for the provision of health services in NW London. In NW London the ICB is known publicly as NHS NW