Polypharmacy Programme Lead Pharmacist

Are you looking for a new challenge and to develop your pharmacy career? Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB are seeking to employ a Polypharmacy Programme Lead Pharmacist to drive implementation and development of system wide projects to address problematic polypharmacy.
Integrated care systems (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. They exist to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in patient outcomes, experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money and support broader social and economic development in their area.
Addressing Problematic Polypharmacy has been chosen by the ICS as one of the National Medicines Optimisation Opportunities we want to work together on.
This fixed term post will be responsible for providing medicines optimisation professional expertise to develop, plan, co-ordinate and manage the ICS polypharmacy programme, ensuring implementation is both successful and sustained., This role will be shaped by the ICS aims and objectives and the successful post holder will work closely with all members of the ICB Medicines Optimisation Team, pharmacy teams and a wide range of stakeholders at all levels within the wider ICS health and social care community.
You will be required to work collaboratively, utilising a range of leadership skills and attributes to deliver outcomes to make a real difference to the lives of the local population. A clear understanding of the challenges facing Health and Social Care systems will be essential, as will experience and knowledge of how to drive system improvements.
This leadership post will be responsible for providing medicines optimisation professional expertise to develop, plan, co-ordinate and manage the ICS polypharmacy programme, ensuring implementation is both successful and sustained.
The post holder will have experience of working with all partner organisations in the ICS, and in delivering complex change programmes.
They will work with and be directed by the ICB polypharmacy programme Senior Pharmacist lead, but will also support the ICB Chief Pharmacist, and Senior Medicines Optimisation team to implement and deliver aspects of the Medicines Optimisation Strategy for the ICS, where the objectives are aligned to the work in the polypharmacy programme.

Working for our organisation
NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a strategic component of the Integrated Care System (ICS) across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. We were formed with the intention to improve population health and collaborate with local partners (NHS, Local Authority and Third Sector) to deliver high quality health and social care provision to our local population.
We have accountability for the system delivery of the ICS' priorities such as improving outcomes in population health and healthcare, tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access, enhancing productivity and value for money, and helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.
We seek to improve the patient experience and are committed at looking at innovative ways we can improve care and offer access and choice to our patients. Patients are at the heart of everything we do and it's important that they are involved not just in decisions about their individual care, but also in the decisions that shape the health services delivered locally. In conjunction, with patient experience and the growing demands of our population; we are facing significant financial challenge. We are required to reduce expenditure to sustainable levels (ICS 5-year strategic plan).
The ambitions are great, but so are the opportunities to be part of our new and evolving organisation, to make positive impactful change to the health and social care agenda across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire., develop actionable planning documentation and co-ordinate implementation that will drive best practice and quality improvements through multi-disciplinary and partnership working, across the ICS.
interpret highly complex facts and use their expertise in programme management to achieve project deliverables whilst ensuring the quality of care for patients is maintained.
· generate improvement opportunities, use their previous experience to influence teams to work in new ways and be able to effectively communicate with staff at all levels across stakeholder organisations.
· when needed, challenge stakeholders about delivery of tasks and hold to account where agreed performance targets have not been met.
· work within established governance processes, managed by the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICS Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy Board (NNICS MOPB)
The post holder will demonstrate a methodical and structured approach along with utilisation of project management skills to manage all aspects of the full project lifecycle:
· Identifying and managing programme dependencies.
· Identification and management of project risks and issues.
· Ability to share project management knowledge and experience to project/scheme leads across the ICS.
· Convey strong system financial awareness of delivering a financial improvement programme.
· Demonstrate clear development logic that can be understood by all stakeholders.
· Provide timely programme progress updates on status of projects to the NNICS MOPB
· Provide leadership, decision making, progress updates and articulate key risks/issues in NNMOPB meetings.
· Work with the IPMO Programme Manager to ensure project documentation (e.g. Project workbook, Project Brief, milestones, financial phasing, KPI's) is completed to appropriate standards.
Our communities are from all walks of life, so we are too. Here at NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB, we are not all the same. The diversity of our workforce gives us strength by providing unique first hand experiences and voices to draw upon. We believe that to deliver high-quality services, we need to represent all the communities we serve.
Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. Please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any specific access needs at any stage of the process.