Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist

SCW requires an experienced and diligent pharmacist, with a desire to work within the NHS, ensuring value for public money and helping to improve outcomes for patients. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic pharmacist to work alongside fellow pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, clinicians and colleagues across SCW. The post holder will input into the development and delivery of clinical services which will make a difference to patients.
SCW is committed to our process of redeployment of at-risk members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions., The role will work with a wide range of stakeholders in health and care to deliver pharmacy and medicines optimisation projects. Experience in variety of settings (e.g., primary care/ secondary/ community/ health and justice) and/ or leadership role is essential. There is also the potential opportunity for the post holder to act as a pharmacy subject matter expert, working on wider SCW projects. The post holder will have in-depth knowledge of NHS initiatives, policy and developments as well as the legal, governance and ethical framework within which pharmacists, primary care organisations, provider trusts, and commissioners work., Main duties of the post holder include, but not limited to:
+ Deliver, and lead work streams or elements within the medicines optimisation portfolios.
+ Deliver high quality services, ensuring that both commissioned and provider services are founded on established evidence-based and clinically effective care.
+ Provide pharmacy expert advice and project management to assist SCW customers in developing legal, safe, cost-effective, and best value NHS services, with an emphasis on identifying and reducing unwarranted clinical variation and ensuring an effective integration across systems and integrated care models.
+ Ensure that clinical effectiveness and best practice are embedded into planning and transformation of clinical services across SCW.
+ Undertake site visits and face-to-face meetings as required.
+ Communicate and/or present complex clinical and technical information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders where appropriate.
+ Build effective partnership working with internal and external stakeholders.
+ Undertake site visits and face-to-face meetings as required.
Please refer to the job description and person specification for further details and information regarding this role.
SCW offers agile and hybrid ways of working. Hybrid working is a type of flexible working where employees blend working from different locations. It offers the employee the ability to choose to work wherever and however they are most productive, whether it be in an office, at home, or a customer site. Office location can be flexible within the SCW estate and will be agreed upon offer of contract.
SCW staff that are in posts considered to be agile will not be expected to attend office space for general working but will be required on occasions to attend face to face meetings and collaborative working sessions that may require travel to their home base or other locations across the estate or customer sites.
Please feel free to contact the Recruiting Manager of this vacancy to discuss further the working arrangement.
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This is an exciting time to join NHS South, Central and West.
SCW is an NHS support and transformation organisation that helps health and social care organisations deliver the best possible care to people. As partners of choice to more than 200 organisations that support millions of people, our mission is to help deliver the NHS Long Term Plan, improving the health and wellbeing of communities.
We're supporting clients whose vision and quest for innovation requires us to be flexible, adaptable and open to adventure; giving us the freedom to work in new ways, looking at things from a different angle and challenging the norm.
We are an equal opportunities employer committed to attracting and retaining the best people in order to provide the best possible services to our customers. Our people enjoy challenging, rewarding roles, supporting our customers to improve their local health and care services.
We want our people to fulfil their potential so we offer a wide range of training, opportunities to gain qualifications, as well as access to coaching, mentoring schemes and employee wellbeing and support for a healthy work-life balance.
SCW were selected as an NHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion Partner for three consecutive years 2015-2018 and are now proud to be Alumni of this programme.
If you are successful in your application, we will value your experience, your contribution and we will give you the knowledge to succeed as part of your specialist team and as part of our organisation.
Our values
Patients First: our sole focus and inspiration is to help commissioners improve the quality of patient care, treatment and experience.
Aspirational: we deliver excellence, and celebrate innovation. This drives us towards becoming the best.
Collaborative: we build effective partnerships, whilst focusing on delivery. We work towards achieving shared goals.
Insightful: As experts in our fields, we understand the bigger picture and its complexities, we challenge convention, and we uncover opportunities.
Respectful: We treat everyone with respect and hope it will be returned. Recognising and valuing their knowledge, we involve our customers, teams and partners in decisions.
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As a team we value openness and being supportive to one another. We strive towards effective and excellent consultancy delivery to our customers. The tasks and projects/clinical areas that the team is involved in are varied - so the ideal candidate will need to have a can-do attitude; ability to work alone diligently as well as in a team; and be willing to work on a variety of projects and/or tasks that may be outside of their comfort zone.
You will be working within a challenging NHS environment and will need to be highly adaptive, flexible, and autonomous.
There are a range of sites within the SCW footprint, and it is possible for the working base for this role to be agreed to suit the ideal candidates. This role is Agile and will be a mix of home working, face-to-face meetings, and site visits. Access to car and the ability to travel between county-wide locations is therefore essential for this role.