Pharmacist or Pharmacy Technician, Overprescribing
The closing date is 31 May 2026
Help Us Tackle Overprescribing and Improve Medicines Value Across South East London. Are you passionate about medicines optimisation, reducing waste, and improving patient outcomes? Join our collaborative team at NHS South East London ICB and play a key role in delivering our ambitious overprescribing and medicines value programme. As a Pharmacist or Pharmacy Technician (Overprescribing), you will:
* Work with the Lead Pharmacist and Consultant Pharmacist, Frailty and Overprescribing, and be supported by a dynamic medicines optimisation team.
* Deliver and support system-wide strategies to reduce overprescribing, medicines waste, and unnecessary side effects and admissions related to medicines contributing to the implementation of the National Overprescribing Review.
* Engage with primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, social care, public health, and voluntary sector partners to drive transformation and reduce health inequalities.
* Support the management of a £250 million annual prescribing budget, ensuring high value and financial sustainability.
* Use data and outcome-based commissioning metrics to monitor progress and inform strategic decisions.
* Contribute to innovation, research, and the spread of best practice in medicines optimisation and overprescribing reduction.
Main duties of the job
Why Join Us?
* Be part of a well-established medicines optimisation and pharmacy network across South East London, working collaboratively to build on collective expertise to drive improvement.
* Be part of a forward-thinking, inclusive organisation serving two million residents across six London boroughs.
* Help deliver the NHS 10 Year Health Plan and make a real difference to patient care, health inequalities, and sustainability.
* Work in a supportive environment that values innovation, collaboration, and professional development.
The new system-wide post supports delivery of the ICB's strategic priorities to reduce overprescribing, improve medicines safety, and ensure best value from medicines use across the system. Working collaboratively with primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and public health partners, the postholder will help to engage with colleagues, communicate the key issues, track and report the progress of evidence-based interventions that reduce medicines waste, improve patient outcomes, and address health inequalities.
Job responsibilities
The role requires a pharmacist or pharmacy technician to deliver and support medicines optimisation initiatives across the system, develop and use data-driven metrics, and lead engagement with partners to reduce overprescribing.
What Were Looking For
* Registered pharmacist or pharmacy technician (GPhC) with experience in medicines optimisation and/or clinical pharmacy practice.
* Strong analytical, communication, and project management skills.
* Experience working in or with integrated care systems, multidisciplinary teams, or NHS commissioning environments.
* Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusive pharmacy practice.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
* Current Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council as a pharmacist or pharmacy technician.
* Level 3 Diploma or Degree in Pharmacy.
Experience
* Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence for a senior team audience.
* Demonstrated experience in a healthcare environment, working with within integrated care systems or multidisciplinary partnerships and understanding their complexities and how to navigate them.
* Experience of supporting GP practices and/or other clinical teams, influencing changes in prescribing behaviour.
Skills and Abilities
* Ability to prepare and produce concise and accurate communications for presentation and dissemination to a broad range of stakeholders.
* Understanding of medicines optimisation principles across the system, including patient-centred approaches, deprescribing, adherence support, clinical and cost-effectiveness.
* Awareness of health inequalities and the role of medicines optimisation in addressing them.
* Ability to develop and maintain networks of relationships that facilitate the achievement of individual and team objectives.
* Ability to apply project management principles, techniques and tools, such as Prince 2, AGILE and equivalent.
* Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term time frames and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
Other
* Ability to work as part of a team and work flexibly to provide support to other departments and teams as and when necessary.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and, as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£56,276 to £63,176 a year per annum inclusive of Inner London HCAS.
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