Job summary
The Senior Medicines Value and Access Pharmacist is a strategic leadership role within the Medicines Optimisation team at NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) and NHS Northamptonshire ICBs. The post focuses on leading medicines value, efficiency and prescribing improvement programmes across the Integrated Care System (ICS).

The role combines clinical leadership, commissioning support, prescribing governance, financial management and analytics to ensure medicines are used safely, effectively and cost-efficiently. The post holder works closely with NHS England, providers, local authorities and system partners to reduce unwarranted variation, improve patient outcomes and maintain financial sustainability of medicines spending.

The post holder must be a Pharmacist currently registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Main duties of the job

• Lead system-wide medicines value, prescribing optimisation and efficiency programmes across the Integrated Care System (ICS), using prescribing intelligence, benchmarking and performance data to identify opportunities, reduce unwarranted variation and improve outcomes.
• Provide senior clinical leadership for prescribing governance, supporting medicines efficiency programmes, incentive schemes and financial control. Contribute to sustainable management of medicines expenditure and long-term financial planning.
• Drive evidence-based, cost-effective prescribing through formulary management, shared care arrangements and high-cost medicines processes. Ensure alignment with NICE guidance, national policy and ICB strategic priorities.
• Provide expert advice on medicines-related Individual Funding Requests (IFRs) and support commissioning decisions for high-cost medicines, ensuring they are clinically appropriate and financially sustainable.
• Work collaboratively with NHS England, providers, local authorities and system partners to support service transformation and medicines optimisation objectives.
• Lead policy development and service improvement initiatives, manage budgets and information systems, and provide professional leadership, mentoring and support to colleagues to strengthen medicines optimisation and commissioning capability.

About us
Working for our Integrated Care Boards will require you contributing to a shared purpose of improving outcomes for the communities we serve as part of a wider health and social care system. The organisation's ethos is rooted in integrity, collaboration and accountability, with a strong focus on putting its patient population at the centre of everything it does and delivering services to improve patient outcomes, patient experience and added years of optimised health. As part of the newly formed cluster bringing together NHS Northamptonshire ICB and NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB, staff are expected to work flexibly and collaboratively across organisational boundaries to support a joined-up approach to strategic commissioning and service improvement. There is an expectation of 40% on patch working, with office bases at County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester and Haylock House, Kettering. Staff can choose which office is their primary base for contractual purposes and travel claims.

This role will require a minimum of 2 days 'on patch' working in Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland in our 2 main offices or partner sites

Details
Date posted: 13 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8b
Salary: £66,582 to £77,368 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 086-8129104-A
Job locations: Haylock House, Kettering | County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, Kettering | Leicester, NN15 6EY, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for the full duties and responsibilities of this role.

Candidates wishing to be considered for more than 1 8b role in the medicines optimisation team should apply for each role they are interested in. Candidates will not be penalised for submitting identical applications, but supporting information should take account of the job descriptions and criteria for all posts applied for.

Person Specification
Essential

• GPhC Registration
• Experience in implementation of incentive schemes and efficiency programmes
• Evidence of working with partners to adopt value focused prescribing approaches.
• Evidence of managing a team to deliver shared objectives
• Previous history of using programme planning techniques to deliver a project
• Previous history of using programme planning techniques to deliver a project
• Experience of formulary development / management
• History of working with Individual Funding Requests (IFRs) related to medicines
• Previous experience of being a budget manager

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board
Address: Haylock House, Kettering | County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, Kettering | Leicester, NN15 6EY, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.icnorthamptonshire.org.uk/icb (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Head of Medicines Commissioning and Integration
Paul Gilbert
paul.gilbert7@nhs.net
07733336175

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.