ICS Chief Pharmacist

NHS Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire ICB

• To improve outcomes in population health and health care
• To reduce inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access
• To enhance productivity and value for money
• To help the NHS support broader economic and social development.

Jointly with other system partners, the Chief Pharmacist is responsible for ensuring that the integrated care system (ICS) delivers optimal impact against the four key objectives of the ICS within the financial resource available.

The Chief Pharmacist will be required to ensure that the integrated care board (ICB) meets the targets set for it by NHS England, including living within the overall revenue and capital allocation, and the administration costs limit, whilst maximising the value of our medicines offer to the population of BSW.

All ICS senior roles contribute to the ICS Objectives through setting strategy and delivering long-term transformation; building trusted relationships with partners and communities; driving high quality, sustainable outcomes; providing robust governance and assurance; and creating a compassionate and inclusive culture.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder carries key corporate responsibilities for the delivery of the ICS's vision, aims and objectives and is lead for:

• Safe and effective use of medicines including the system medicines budget.
• Antimicrobial stewardship.
• Transfer of care and related medicines risk issues.
• Delegated or transferred responsibilities for commissioning, including any delegated or transferred responsibilities for the community pharmacy contractual framework.
• Accountability for regulatory compliance and acts as the accountable officer for controlled drugs for the ICB, working closely with local and regional wide networks of CDAOs across organisations.
• Co-ordination of pharmacy input to key delivery programmes e.g., public health, covid or influenza vaccination, mental health or learning disability priorities such as STOMP.
• Delivery of national pharmacy medicines optimisation strategies and programmes such as overprescribing, Aseptic Transformation, Value for Money, and sustainability initiatives.

About us

Key Working Relationships

• Within the ICB, the Chief Pharmacist will work closely with:
  • Colleagues in the Chief Medical Office
  • Colleagues in the Chief Nurse Office
  • Colleagues in the Primary Care Directorate
• Within the ICS, the Chief Pharmacist will work closely with:
  • Chief Pharmacists in each of the BSW providers
  • Local Pharmaceutical Committee (LPC)
  • Colleagues in Community Pharmacy
  • PCN Pharmacists
  • Director of Public Health and Public Health Teams
• Wider than the ICS, the Chief Pharmacist will work closely with:
  • The Regional Chief Pharmacist
  • Chief Pharmacists in other ICBs.
  • Represent the ICS at regional and national levels on all issues in relation to pharmacy and medicines.

Job responsibilities

The Chief Pharmacist will be required to ensure that the integrated care board (ICB) meets the targets set for it by NHS England, including living within the overall revenue and capital allocation, and the administration costs limit.

Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

Shortlisting will take place on Friday 7th March, when interview invites will be sent.

Interviews will take place on Tuesday 11th March.

Person Specification

Knowledge, Training and Experience

• Educated to masters level in pharmacy plus at least 1 year pre-registration experience.
• Registered pharmacist member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
• Management qualification or equivalent experience of management theory and practice.
• Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies.
• Proven and significant leadership experience.
• Significant evidence of continued professional development.
• Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment.
• Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry.
• Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
• Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations.

Communication & Analytical

• Dynamic personality and the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context like the NHS.
• Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media.
• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
• Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
• Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
• Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
• Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives.

Planning Skills

• Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
• Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget.
• Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management.

Autonomy & Management Skills

• Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
• Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
• Experience in leading a major change initiative with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment.
• Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring colleagues to work together to achieve a common objective.
• Ability to delegate effectively.
• Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.