Senior Medicines Optimisation Clinician – Commissioning & Contracting

Employer NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board Employer type NHS Site Gail House Town Maidstone Salary £57,528 - £64,750 pro rata, per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 19/10/2026 23:59 Interview date 22/10/2026

The Senior Medicines Optimisation Clinician – Commissioning & Contracting provides advanced clinical, technical and strategic expertise to support medicines commissioning, contracting, quality assurance and performance management across Kent and Medway. The role focuses on specialist medicines, high cost drugs, commissioned pharmacy services and medicines optimisation programmes, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, equitable and cost effective care.

Lead and advise on the commissioning and contracting of medicines and appliances prescribed in specialist settings, ensuring clinical effectiveness, value for money and appropriate medicines safety and clinical governance arrangements are in place.

Provide advanced medicines optimisation expertise to support strategic commissioning, quality and safety, pathway redesign and integration of pharmacy services across care settings.

Connect prescribing, financial, contractual, quality, safety and patient experience data to identify emerging risks, trends, opportunities and priorities for improvement.

Review of medicines related complaints, incidents, audits, provider assurance reports and service feedback, ensuring themes and learning are identified and used to inform commissioning decisions and service improvement.

Support procurement processes, including service delivery contracts with third party providers (e.g. home oxygen and online non-prescription ordering services), ensuring robust medicines safety, clinical governance and risk management arrangements are in place.

We are committed to a culture that supports all staff at NHS Kent and Medway to be the best version of themselves.

Our ability to improve outcomes for our population depends on how effectively clinical, operational, financial and strategic professionals work together to make informed commissioning decisions. That’s why our workforce works a minimum of two days-a-week on-site, with the expectation that all one-to-ones are held face-to-face and that colleagues will regularly visit the services we are commissioning to understand more about them.

We believe regular on-site working supports stronger collaboration, faster problem-solving, peer learning, visible leadership and the integration of colleagues into our organisation. We also know that culture is built through shared experiences and day-to-day interactions.

We are a flexible working friendly organisation; we aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.

We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal and access to training opportunities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.

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• Registered Pharmacist or Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and evidence of continuing professional development
• Relevant postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy, prescribing, advanced practice, leadership or equivalent.
• Significant experience in medicines optimisation, commissioning, contracting, service development, specialist medicines, high-cost drugs and governance or safety programmes.
• Experience supporting procurement processes, contract negotiations, business case development, commissioning frameworks or system-wide transformation programmes.

• Experience analysing complex clinical, financial, quality, safety and performance data and using findings to inform decision-making, service improvement and commissioning recommendations.
• Experience developing and presenting reports, business cases, assurance papers or…