Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist (Antimicrobial Stewardship)

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.

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.

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.

Autonomy

Analytical

Other

Knowledge, Training and Experience

Communication