Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 086-8077091-A
- Employer
- NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- County Hall
- Town
- Leicester
- Salary
- £79,504 - £91,609 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/07/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 31/07/2026
Employer heading
Head of Medicine Quality and Governance
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Our vision for the future of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland’s health and care services is for a positive lifetime of health, wellbeing and care in our community.
Our mission in working together, the reason we do what we do, is to empower positive futures. Wherever we work and whatever our role we all want people in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland to be able to choose well, stay well, live well.
Each day our values will help to guide our decisions and what is most important to us:
- Our patients and our local population come first
- We work together in an open and accountable way
- We trust, challenge and support each other
- We do what we say we will do.
Job overview
To provide senior system leadership for quality assurance of medicines use across all commissioned services. Develop a programme of work to provide quality assurance of medicines use. Monitor and analyse data to identify opportunities to improve medicines governance. Provide specialist leadership and expertise on quality issues identified with providers of services, including those identified by the CQC. Oversee complaints response for pharmacy and medicines. Lead the utilisation of alerting systems for General Practice across the ICB e.g. Eclipse.
The post holder must be a Pharmacist currently registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Main duties of the job
- Drive implementation and delivery of the NHS Strategic Commissioning Framework and LNR Operating Model.
- Lead on the delivery of the medicine quality, safety and governance portfolio across the ICS
- Lead on the development of the ICB antimicrobial stewardship framework, ensuring system-wide actions to improve antimicrobial utilisation.
- Oversee development, implementation and education of prescribing policies and guidelines
- Oversee the work programme for the Care Home Pharmacy Service and medicine elements of immunisation and vaccination services
- Provide senior professional leadership to the ICB and contribute to system development
- Participate in the senior manager on call rota.
- Operationally responsible for providing professional expertise to the outcome of the business processes for the Department or Directorate.
- Budgetary responsibility
- Line management/team leadership
- Overseeing/delivering information systems and data reporting, and use analytical skills.
- Strategic planning and corporate policy contributor.
- Undertake research and development
- Receive and understand complex and sensitive information.
Working for our organisation
Working for our Integrated Care Boards will require you contributing to a shared purpose of improving outcomes for the communities we serve as part of a wider health and social care system. The organisation’s ethos is rooted in integrity, collaboration and accountability, with a strong focus on putting its patient population at the centre of everything it does and delivering services to improve patient outcomes, patient experience and added years of optimised health. As part of the newly formed cluster bringing together NHS Northamptonshire ICB and NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB, staff are expected to work flexibly and collaboratively across organisational boundaries to support a joined-up approach to strategic commissioning and service improvement. There is an expectation of 40% office attendance, with office bases at County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester and Haylock House, Kettering. Staff can choose which office is their primary base for contractual purposes and travel claims.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for the full duties and responsibilities of this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Pharmacist currently registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Educated to master’s level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area
- Member of a relevant professional body
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven and significant leadership experience
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level
- Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and make decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution
- Evidence of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time
- Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Interpreting national policy for implementation
- Skills for delivering results through managing others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Ellwood
- Job title
- Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07879316181
- Additional information
To arrange a discussion about this role, please contact Clare Mair, Directorate Executive Assistant.
07765745612
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