Highly Specialist Pharmacist - Medicines CIPs

Job overview

Do you want to join an award-winning department that puts clinical pharmacists at the forefront of medicines optimisation and patient care?

The Pharmacy Department at Barts Health NHS Trust serves a diverse population of 2.5 million people across our major hospital sites in the City of London and East London. We are one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, delivering innovative, patient-focused pharmacy services across a world-renowned healthcare organisation.

We are seeking an ambitious and motivated senior pharmacist to join our team as a Highly Specialist Pharmacist – Medicines CIPs. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering medicines optimisation, driving efficiencies, and identifying medicines-related financial risk across our services.

Working closely with pharmacy teams and the wider multidisciplinary workforce, you will lead and support the development and implementation of medicines Cost Improvement Programmes (CIPs). You will collaborate with colleagues across the Trust and local health economy to deliver high-quality, cost-effective patient care while ensuring consistency and sustainability in medicines use.

The successful candidate will:

• Lead and support medicines efficiency and transformation projects
• Identify and implement innovative medicines optimisation initiatives
• Monitor, track and report on medicines savings programmes

Main duties of the job

• To support the Royal London Pharmacy department and divisional teams in delivering medicines efficiencies and identifying medicines related financial risk.  •    To contribute to the work to deliver transformation projects as required, and to be the project lead for selected projects. •    To manage the overall medicines efficiency work-plan, providing monthly status reports and assisting teams in achieving deadlines. •    To manage audit projects to assess outcomes and to assist in development and interpretation of key metrics.  •    To lead on delivery of medicines Cost Improvement Plans (CIPs), tracking and reporting on progress.  •    To assist with the identification and facilitate the implementation of quality, innovation, productivity and prevention (QIPP) programmes for medicines, and to share schemes with other local providers to ensure consistency across the health economy.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.