NHS Kent & Medway
Senior Medicines Optimisation Clinician – Commissioning & Contracting
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Senior Medicines Optimisation Clinician – Commissioning & Contracting
The Senior Medicines Optimisation Clinician – Commissioning & Contracting provides advanced clinical, technical, and strategic expertise to support medicines commissioning, contracting, quality assurance, and performance management across Kent and Medway. The role focuses on specialist medicines, high-cost drugs, commissioned pharmacy services, and medicines optimisation programmes, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, equitable, and cost-effective care.
Responsibilities
- Lead and advise on the commissioning and contracting of medicines and appliances prescribed in specialist settings, ensuring clinical effectiveness, value for money, and appropriate medicines safety and clinical governance arrangements are in place.
- Provide advanced medicines optimisation expertise to support strategic commissioning, quality and safety, pathway redesign, and integration of pharmacy services across care settings.
- Connect prescribing, financial, contractual, quality, safety, and patient experience data to identify emerging risks, trends, opportunities, and priorities for improvement.
- Review of medicines-related complaints, incidents, audits, provider assurance reports, and service feedback, ensuring themes and learning are identified and used to inform commissioning decisions and service improvement.
- Support procurement processes, including service delivery contracts with third-party providers (e.g., home oxygen and online non-prescription ordering services), ensuring robust medicines safety, clinical governance, and risk management arrangements are in place.
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About Us
We are committed to a culture that supports all staff at NHS Kent and Medway to be the best version of themselves.
Our ability to improve outcomes for our population depends on how effectively clinical, operational, financial, and strategic professionals work together to make informed commissioning decisions. That’s why our workforce works a minimum of two days-a-week on-site, with the expectation that all one-to-ones are held face-to-face, and that colleagues will regularly visit the services we are commissioning to understand more about them.
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We believe regular on-site working supports stronger collaboration, faster problem-solving, peer learning, visible leadership, and the integration of colleagues into our organisation. We also know that culture is built through shared experiences and day-to-day interactions.
We are a flexible working friendly organisation; we aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal, and access to training opportunities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Rebecca Aderinola
- Job Title: Lead Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist
- Email Address: r.aderinola1@nhs.net
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