Senior Medicines Optimisation Programme Specialist

Job overview

We are seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic Senior Medicines Optimisation Programme Specialist to join the well-established Medicines Optimisation Team in NHS Devon.

Successful candidates will be able to draw on a broad range of abilities, including project management experience, and organisation and communication skills.

Your role will involve developing, implementing, and maintaining a programme management system to ensure information is efficiently and correctly collated, managed, and analysed, and lead on programme management monitoring and reporting.

Working closely with the Chief Pharmacist – Primary Care and, where appropriate, the Director of Clinical Partnerships, you will identify and rectify any risks or non-delivery of projects. You will regularly meet with programme and project leads to ensure that delivery is in line with the workstream plan.

This role is a fantastic opportunity to lead programme management in a healthcare setting, working with clinicians to drive change. If you are detail-oriented and passionate about improving healthcare programmes, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Provide management, programme oversight and drive delivery of System Medicines Optimisation programmes, including ICB Medicines Optimisation programmes and ICS programmes where appropriate.

Ensure that the programme workstreams are planned and managed effectively and support the organisation in ensuring their successful delivery.

Develop, implement and maintain a programme management system to ensure information is efficiently and correctly collated, managed and analysed.

Lead on programme management monitoring and reporting, and lead on ensuring escalation of possible non-delivery to workstream leads and Senior Responsible Owner.

Liaise with the ICB Programme Management Office on reporting and management of relevant programmes, including ensuring contribution of financial and system recovery where required.

Ensure appropriate risk management, other requirements (such as QEIA) and all department returns as appropriate are completed, reported, and actioned.

Act as Information Asset Administrator for ICB Medicines Optimisation team.

Working for our organisation

NHS Devon Integrated Care System

It aims to transform health and care services, so they are clinically, socially and financially sustainable.

Our vision is simple: equal chances for everyone in Devon to lead long, happy and healthy lives. To achieve this, we have set out six ambitions for the next five years that will help us transform services including: Effective and efficient care, embedding the Integrated Care Model, the Devon deal (a citizen-led approach to health and care), Children and young people, Digital Devon and ensuring Equality.

About NHS Devon

As part of the Devon ICS, NHS Devon Integrated Care Board is responsible for the majority of county's NHS budget, and develops a plan to improve people's health, deliver high-quality care and better value for money. The organisation is led by a diverse board, with an aim to improve people's lives in Devon wherever they live, to reduce health inequalities and make sure we can deliver these services for the long term.

For more information, visit our ICS website www.icsdevon.co.uk and our NHS Devon website www.devon.icb.nhs.uk.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• All posts can be considered as development opportunities if applicants do not meet the essential criteria at the time of appointment but would be able to meet this in a reasonable time frame.
• Vacancies may close early if a high volume of applications are received.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area

Experience

• Relevant post graduate degree or equivalent level of experience
• Significant experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment
• Demonstrated experience of co-ordinating projects in complex and challenging environments
• Experience of utilising project management principles
• Experience of managing risks and reporting
• Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at SMT level
• Experience of business planning processes
• Ability to support the budget setting for a department and/or service

• Knowledge of Microsoft Project on the Web or similar tools
• Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment
• Understanding of the public sector

Skills

• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
• Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures

Other

• Ability to analyse very 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
• Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate
• Attention to detail combined with the ability to extract key messages from complex analysis
• Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills
• Skills for managing projects ensuring they meet financial targets
• Standard keyboard skills, with the ability to learn/use of a range of software