Job summary
- Main area
- Medicines Optimisation
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8B
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term / Secondment for up to 12 months - maternity leave cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 487-SELICB-1056-A
- Employer
- NHS South East London Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 160 Tooley Street
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £72,921 - £83,362 pro rata per annum inclusive of Inner HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Pharmacist - Integrated Medicines Optimisation (IMOC)
NHS AfC: Band 8B
Job overview
We are seeking an experienced and motivated pharmacist to join South East London Integrated Care Board (SEL ICB) as Lead Pharmacist, Integrated Medicines Optimisation on a fixed term contract basis for maternity leave cover for up to 12 months. This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and committed Pharmacist to come and join us as part of the South East London Medicines Optimisation team. The Team reflects the values of the ICB of improving health outcomes, reducing health inequalities, delivering medicines value, and maintaining a thriving, financially viable, health economy delivering safe and effective high quality care that meets the needs of local people.
This senior leadership role sits within the Integrated Medicines Optimisation function in the Medicines Optimisation Team and plays a key role in supporting safe, effective and high value use of medicines across South East London. The postholder will lead the coordination and delivery of the South East London Integrated Medicines Optimisation Committee (IMOC), a multidisciplinary forum supporting system wide clinical and medicines decision making.
The postholder will work closely with members of the Medicines Optimisation Team, including the senior leadership team and will report to the Assistant Director for Integrated Medicines Optimisation. The postholder will also work collaboratively with partners across the Integrated Care System.
Please note: enquiries from recruitment agencies will not be responded to.
Main duties of the job
Lead system‑wide medicines optimisation decision‑making
You will lead the coordination and day‑to‑day operation of the South East London Integrated Medicines Optimisation Committee (IMOC), enabling high‑quality, evidence‑informed and collaborative medicines decisions across the Integrated Care System.
Provide senior clinical and strategic pharmacy leadership
You will offer expert advice on medicines optimisation, high‑cost and specialist medicines, and support the implementation of NICE and national policy, helping to improve outcomes, reduce unwarranted variation and support value-based use of medicines.
Support medicines‑related pathways and transformation
Working with providers and clinical leaders, you will contribute to medicines‑related pathway development and system transformation, with a focus on quality, safety, equity and population health.
Use data and evidence to inform decisions
You will interpret complex clinical, prescribing and financial information, support horizon scanning for new and emerging medicines, and contribute to value and productivity programmes.
Contribute to system‑wide leadership and collaboration
You will build strong working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders across South East London, deputise for the Assistant Director, Integrated Medicines Optimisation as required, and contribute to professional leadership and team development within medicines optimisation.
Working for our organisation
South East London Integrated Care Board (SEL ICB) brings together the health and care partners that serve our vibrant and highly diverse populations resident in the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Greenwich - our Places.
SEL ICB is the NHS management unit of the Integrated Care System (ICS). It is accountable both to NHS England and to the South East London Integrated Care Partnership (ICP). The ICS exists to deliver four core purposes:
• Improve outcomes in South East London population health and health and care services
• Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access suffered by the residents of South East London
• Enhance productivity and value for money in the in the use of health and care resources in South East London
• Help the NHS support broader social and economic development in South East London.
The ICS is not an intermediate management tier and fundamental to the operating model of the ICS are three fundamental principles:
• Partnership: We are a partnership of sovereign bodies coming together to achieve something greater than the sum of the partners. All partners have a voice and all partners have responsibility.
• Subsidiarity: We work on the basis of subsidiarity. This means issues and decisions should be dealt at the most local level consistent with their effective resolution.
• Accountability: We value both supporting each other and being held to account by each other and our wider partners.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details of the role’s responsibilities.
You will be based at the SEL ICB headquarters at 160 Tooley Street in London with travel to other sites within the ICB as needed. Whilst this role is full time (37.5 hours per week), applications from those who are able to work a minimum of 30 hours per week, or are applying on a job share basis, will also be considered. Please note that applicants should be available to work on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, which are critical team and meeting days.
Note: This post provides maternity-leave cover for up to 12 months. If the substantive postholder returns earlier than expected, appropriate notice will be given for the fixed term contract to end earlier in line with contractual terms.
Interviews will take place face-to-face at the SEL ICB headquarters at 160 Tooley Street, London. Depending on the number of applications, a two-stage interview process may be employed for this recruitment.
For further information please contact Devika Sennik, Assistant Director Integrated Medicines Optimisation, SEL ICB via email [email protected].
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Pharmacy: currently a master’s degree taking 4 years plus one year pre-registration (5 years in total) or equivalent.
- Current registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Postgraduate Certificate, Diploma or MSc in a pharmacy discipline or evidence of extensive clinical training and experience.
- Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice and revalidation
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a complex and challenging environment, managing demanding relationships with multiple stakeholders
- Experience of multidisciplinary, joint working with colleagues from a range of professional backgrounds.
- Demonstrated experience of coordinating projects in highly complex and challenging environment
- Experience of managing budgets and business planning processes
- Experience of working closely with Medicines Committees or Groups
- Experience of successfully setting up and managing internal processes and procedures
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence for a senior audience
- Experience in leading and supporting development of treatment pathways/ guidelines
- Knowledge of how to optimise clinical care by care pathway redesign, including relating to medicines and LTC use
- Experience of policy or proposal development
- Extensive experience of negotiating and implementing change in practice
- Experience of leading a specialist team, delivering service changes and developments
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to understand a broad range of highly complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution
- Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery
- Strong numerical and analytical skills to accurately analyse and manage complex prescribing data
- Ability to analyse ePACT2/ QOF / EMIS/acute data
- Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information and present such information to large groups and senior stakeholders
- Ability to prepare and produce concise communications for dissemination to a broad range of stakeholders as required
- Critical appraisal skills and knowledge to analyse, interpret and evaluate clinical papers, clinical evidence, data and information from various sources to make judgements, decisions and provide recommendations
- Interpreting national policy for implementation
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Devika Sennik
- Job title
- Assistant Director -IMO
- Email address
- [email protected]
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