Clinical and Quality Portfolio Lead Pharmacist

Clinical and Quality Portfolio Lead Pharmacist

The Clinical and Quality Portfolio Lead Pharmacist will provide strategic and professional leadership for the clinical and quality portfolio and wider medicines optimisation function.

As a senior member of the ICB's medicines optimisation function, the postholder will lead the development and delivery of a system-wide approach to safe, effective, and evidence-based use of medicines. They will work across organisational boundaries and drive high-impact initiatives that improve patient outcomes, reduce unwarranted variation, and ensure best value from medicines.

The post holder will support the medicines optimisation function meet the four core purposes of the IC S: improve outcomes in population health and healthcare, tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access enhance productivity and value for money, help the NHS support broader social and economic development

The post holder will be a key member of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation senior leadership team. They will support the development of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation shared system wide strategy and operational plan. Linking with national policy, regional and local priorities it delivers maximum value and outcomes for patients, the local population and the NHS.

They will lead the clinical & quality team to deliver key work-programmes including, but not limited to:

• Long-term conditions
• Medicines formular
• Clinical guideline, policy and protocol development
• Shared Care Protocol development
• Quality Improvement & audit development
• Mental Health & LDo Antimicrobial Stewardship
• GIRFT
• Population Health Management

NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care

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 and wellbeing of people who live and work in their area. Their purpose is to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money and support broader social and economic development in their area efficiency.

This will be delivered in neighbourhood, place, combinations of places and GM system.

Our NHS People Promise
-the promise we must all make to each other, to work together to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Like many other employers, NHS GM currently has evidence of unwarranted inequalities in the workforce, most notably in relation to minoritised ethnic, female and/or disabled staff and their intersectionality. As a result, we will use positive action measures to bring benefits to our organisation, including a wider pool of talented, skilled and experienced people from which to recruit and a better understanding of the needs of a more diverse range of customers.

Working across NHS GM or a designated locality on joint work streams and initiatives and promoting awareness of Medicines Optimisation issues. This role will require direct regular travel to GM & stakeholder locations

Key Functional Responsibilities:

They will lead assigned portfolios of work for the ICB.

The post holder will through joint working with partners and place-based teams; develop and deliver the Integrating Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation (IPMO) agenda.

Working in collaboration with partners including: LTC programme leads, ICB contract, quality/performance, finance, medicines optimisation teams, NHS providers and other organisations to support the integration of the clinical and quality programmes.

Lead transformation work streams for pharmacy/medicines optimisation across the IC S.

Work in collaboration with national, regional and GM to develop GM pharmacy/medicines optimisation work streams.

Work with cluster lead pharmacists and place based teams to ensure delivery of the Medicines Optimisation Strategy and Operational Plan.

Support the GM Chief Pharmacist in quality and performance issues relating to pharmacy/medicines optimisation services

Provide specialist advice and prepare strategic reports and briefings for directors, regional…