Head of Community Pharmacy Clinical Services

at  Black Country Integrated Care Board

The postholder would be responsible for: Supporting implementation and delivery of pilots and commissioned clinical services through clinical engagement integrating community pharmacy, general practice, primary care networks, community services and secondary care. Professional oversight for dealing with clinical incidents including those that arise from the vaccination programmes that arise from these pilots and commissioned clinical services and development of clinical governance frameworks. Clinical advice to review local clinical escalation routes. Advise on local training initiatives to support workforce flexibility, and support delivery of Inclusive Pharmacy Professional Practice commitments.
Advice to local commissioners looking at add on services to the core nationally commissioned services e.g. PGD supply and independent prescribing. Improve engagement of community pharmacy with the ICS medicines management, and medicines value programmes ensuring that the community pharmacy services are aligned to the ICS medicines optimisation priorities Supporting system readiness for holding Community Pharmacy contracts As a senior lead, work internally and externally to deliver projects, initiatives and services to time and in a cost-effective way. To support the identification and sharing of best practice across all sectors of pharmacy to support community pharmacy service improvement.
Be able to operate in a highly political and sensitive environment. Support the portfolio of local, national and regional programmes/projects at a system level in demonstrating value for money tracking, managing and delivering agreed benefits. Provide specialist advice and prepare strategic reports and briefings for directors, regional teams and stakeholders. In depth analysis, interpretation and production of complex and multiple reports.
Engage with Regional Chief Pharmacist and Senior Regional Pharmacy Integration Lead, supporting the development and delivery of regional pharmacy integration plans. Participate in the Midlands Pharmacy Transformation subgroup chaired by the Senior Regional Pharmacy Integration Lead (or group of similar name) which feeds into the Pharmacy Leadership Board. Share good practice and work collaboratively with other Community Pharmacy Clinical Leads across the Midlands to solve issues and avoid duplication. Monitor the uptake of pilots and new clinical services, assessing the extent of unwarranted variation in the delivery of services and supporting equity of access to these services.
Drive the development of new clinical services working in partnership with key stakeholders with an aim to mitigate against variation and inequity of service provision. Financial and Physical Resources Responsible for supporting the commissioning of projects and procurement of services to support project delivery, acting in accordance with Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instruction. Provide financial reports to the ICS Directors and the Board, and to regional teams as required. Constantly strive for value for money and greater efficiency in the use of budgets, and to ensure that they operate in recurrent financial balance year on year.
Engage with system and regional team (e.g. Regional Director of Primary Care and Public Health) as needed. People Management Responsible for the day to day range of staff management matters, which may include responsibility for supporting appraisals, development of business cases for additional staff to fill identified gaps, staff training and development, recruitment and where necessary employee relations matters. Responsible for an individuals development on the job and team performance.
Support the department or function, building a collaborative working environment and an innovative cultureMotivate, inspire and develop staff and stakeholders Motivate, inspire and develop staff and stakeholders Information Management Develop and deliver information sharing systems. Develop the acquisition, organisation, provision and use of knowledge and information. Highlight exceptions and risks ensuring mitigating action is taken. Drafting reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and providing progress reports for the Head of the Department as required.
Collate as required, qualitative and quantitative information and lead appropriate analysis to develop robust business cases and contribute to delivery of products and service improvement. Analyse, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risks and support decision making Planning and Organisation Work closely with local and regional teams to ensure local, regional and national priorities and projects are delivered including pilot clinical services and the implementation of new CPCF services. Feed local issues, barriers, enablers and learning to regional and national teams and help improve design and delivery of pilots and clinical services. Ensure projects, pilots, services and initiatives are delivered on time, to quality standards and in a cost-effective manner, adjusting plans as required.
Determine the strategic planning of Department or Directorate projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary. Determine the development of performance and governance strategies and the development and implementation of improvement programmes, in accordance with Service Sector priorities. Determine short, medium and long-term business plans, achieving quality outcomes. PLEASE READ THE FULL JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION ATTACHED TO THE ADVER

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