Medicines Optimisation Care Homes Pharmacist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for someone to be part of the Medicines Optimisation in Social Care and Care Homes Team within Frimley ICS. This team is well established and highly respected locally as well as nationally. The team leads on ensuring that medicines use in care homes and other social care settings is individualised, safe, effective and sustainable.
The role is for a Pharmacist to work at an advanced clinical level, providing advice and support to care homes and social care organisations across the system, developing best practice guidance, delivering training to all levels of staff and carrying out complex structured medication reviews and supporting and developing PCN and GP practice pharmacy staff to carry out to enhance outcomes for people in care homes and social care settings.
We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best employers are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles., This role is part of the Medicines Optimisation in Social Care and Care Homes Team within Frimley ICS. This team is well established and highly respected locally as well as nationally. The team leads on ensuring that medicines use in care homes and other social care settings is individualised, safe, effective and sustainable.
The role is for a Pharmacist to work at an advanced clinical level, providing advice and support to care homes and social care organisations across the system, developing best practice guidance, delivering training to all levels of staff and carrying out complex structured medication reviews and supporting and developing PCN and GP practice pharmacy staff to carry out to enhance outcomes for people in care homes and social care settings.
This job description is only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The role will evolve as needed to support the emerging pharmacy and medicines optimisation transformation agenda and to the needs of the local system. As such, the postholder will be required to carry out any other duties appropriate to the role.

Working for our organisation
NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board was formed on 1 July 2022 under the Health and Care Act 2022, replacing NHS Frimley Clinical Commissioning Group.
The ICB is the new statutory NHS organisation responsible for planning and delivering health and care services. It will work collaboratively with partner organisations including the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, people and communities across the Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System (ICS).
We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best employers are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.
We are committed to delivering a trustworthy, flexible and responsible staff culture., Leading and delivering a medicines optimisation service to care homes and social care settings.
Working with local clinicians and other staff to identify, develop and implement initiatives to improve services for the local population in care homes and social care.
Improving the quality and safety of medicines processes in care homes and social care settings.
Designing and delivering specialist education events on medicines optimisation and prescribing issues for care home and social care staff.
Implementing the clinical governance agenda in relation to medicines optimisation to improve or maintain the quality and cost effectiveness of prescribing.
Recommending, facilitating and making sustained changes in prescribing practice to ensure high quality, safe, evidence-based and cost-effective medicines use within care homes.
Providing an expert clinical service to care homes and social care settings including complex structured medication reviews.
Supporting and developing PCN and GP practice pharmacy staff to provide structured medication reviews.
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary and multi-organisation team to deliver medicines related improvements in care.
Work collaboratively across the healthcare system, with care home, social care, local authority and other multidisciplinary teams to support and optimise medicines use.
Interdisciplinary working with other clinicians across the healthcare system to ensure evidenced based clinical guidelines are implemented.
Identifying and reporting safeguarding concerns to the appropriate teams.
Contributing to the development and delivery of both Medicines Optimisation initiatives and Chief Medical Officer directorate initiatives.
Acting as a role model by demonstrating inclusive behaviours, valuing diversity, and highlighting inequalities.
· Deliver on a wide range of activities and projects, as identified by the post-holder's line manager.
Please note: this vacancy will close once a suitable number of applications have been submitted.
We make every effort to contact all candidates to let them know the outcome of their application. However, if you haven't heard back from us within 2 weeks after the closing date, please assume that your application has not been successful.

NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board was formed on 1 July 2022 under the Health and Care Act 2022, replacing NHS Frimley Clinical Commissioning Group.
The ICB is the new statutory NHS organisation responsible for planning and delivering health and care services. It will work collaboratively with partner organisations including the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, people and communities across the Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System (ICS).
We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best employers are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.
We are committed to delivering a trustworthy, flexible and responsible staff culture.

+ Fringe HCAS payment
+ NHS Pension Scheme
+ Agile Working; currently 1 day a fortnight office based.
Supportive team, flexible working arrangements and access to NHS leadership development and training opportunities.