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Used to working in a busy environment.
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Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
- Other
Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions.
- Other
Professional calm and efficient manner.
- Other
Effective organizer, influencer and networker.
- Other
Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Other
Completer/Finisher.
- Autonomy
Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Autonomy
Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Autonomy
Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy.
- Autonomy
Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation).
- Analytical
Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Analytical
Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options.
- Analytical
Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Analytical
Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
- Communication
Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Communication
Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
- Knowledge, Training and Experience
Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Knowledge, Training and Experience
Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent.
- Knowledge, Training and Experience
Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Knowledge, Training and Experience
Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Knowledge, Training and Experience
Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
- Knowledge, Training and Experience
Member of relevant professional body.
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job summary
The post holder will work as an advanced specialist antimicrobial pharmacist, supporting delivery of high quality Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) across the Integrated Care Board.
The post holder will provide expert antimicrobial advice, contribute to AMS improvement projects, support data analysis, deliver training, and work collaboratively across the system.
The post holder will support the ICS AMS strategy and work under the direction of the Director of Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy (Chief Pharmacist).
Main duties of the job
Provide advanced specialist antimicrobial pharmacy advice across the Integrated Care System (ICS), supporting consistent, evidence based antimicrobial prescribing across primary care, community services and secondary care providers. This will include advising prescribers on complex antimicrobial decisions, such as management of resistant infections, optimisation of treatment duration and antimicrobial de-escalation, ensuring advice reflects national guidance while accounting for local resistance patterns and system priorities.
Support the delivery and implementation of the ICS Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) Strategy, working with system partners to embed stewardship principles across organisational boundaries. This will include contributing to the development and delivery of system action plans, supporting agreed ICS priorities and enabling alignment between local provider AMS programmes, for example supporting systemwide adoption of shared antimicrobial prescribing guidance.
Support system level monitoring, interpretation and reporting of antimicrobial prescribing and stewardship metrics, including agreed key performance indicators and relevant CQUIN requirements. This will include analysing prescribing and resistance data across organisations, identifying variation and emerging risks, and supporting the use of intelligence to inform systemwide quality improvement activity, for example highlighting trends in WATCH antibiotic use to relevant ICS governance groups.
About us
We manage an annual budget of £4.9 billion to commission safe, high quality and accessible health services for 1.7million people living in Norfolk and Suffolk.
We work with hospitals, GP practices, dentists, pharmacies, community, mental health and ambulance services, alongside local councils and voluntary organisations, to improve care. We involve local communities in shaping decisions and use their insights to improve services. As a statutory NHS organisation, we are accountable to NHS England and the UK Government.
Our role is to ensure services meet current and future needs by setting local NHS strategy, allocating funding, maintaining quality and safety standards, improving access, reducing health inequalities and enabling joined up care.
Norfolk and Suffolk include rural, coastal and deprived communities, with an older than average population. Around half of residents live in rural or coastal areas, where access can be harder, and about 219,000 people live in the most deprived areas, where early deaths are significantly higher. These factors shape our planning and focus on reducing inequalities.
Our vision is for people to live longer, healthier lives with access to safe, joined up, patient centred care. We prioritise improving healthy life expectancy, reducing inequalities and ensuring consistent access to high quality services.
We work across five local Places and partner with NHS providers, councils, the VCFSE sector and communities to deliver locally responsive care.
Details
- Date posted: 25 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 8a
- Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year
- Contract: Fixed term
- Duration: 2 years
- Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
- Reference number: D0003-ICB-028
- Job locations: Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board, County Hall, Martineau Lane, Norwich, Norfolk, NR1 2DH, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.
The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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This advert is for Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist (Antimicrobial Stewardship) with NHS Norfolk and Suffolk Integrated Care Board in Norwich, United Kingdom. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £57,528 to £64,750 a year. The contract type is Fixed-Term. The application deadline is 10 Sep 2026.
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