MATERNITY COVER-FTC-12 MONTHS
This fixed-term maternity cover offers an exciting opportunity for a registered Dietitian to work within the Medicines Optimisation Delivery Team in South West London (SWL). The role will focus on the delivery of strategies and actionable plans in relation to nutrition to deliver the best possible health outcomes for the SWL local population, with a focus on prevention, personalised care and health inequalities.
The role will support and at times lead primary care and neighbourhood NHS models of care at Place in enhancing outcomes from the prescribing of nutritional products, including ensuring value, safety, and overall quality improvement. The post holder will work collaboratively across boroughs within the Medicines Optimisation Delivery Team to facilitate the efficient implementation of ‘do once and share’ functions.
If you have any questions or would like an informal discussion about the role please contact Gassan Yacob (
[email protected] )
On 1 July 2022, NHS South West London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was established. The ICB, as part of South West London Integrated Care System (ICS), is a partnership of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people in our six boroughs: Croydon, Merton, Kingston, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth.
Each ICS consists of two statutory elements:
- an Integrated Care Board, bringing the NHS together with its partners locally to improve health and care services
- an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP): the broad alliance of organisations and representatives concerned with improving the care, health and wellbeing of the population, jointly convened by the ICB and local authorities in the area.
ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of integrated care systems (ICSs):
- to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare;
- tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access;
- enhance productivity and value for money and;
- help the NHS support broader social and economic development.
NHS South West London Integrated Care Board decides how the South West London NHS budget is spent and develops plans to improve people's health, deliver higher quality care, and better value for money.
Please refer to the Job Description for full details.
Duties and Responsibilities
The Postholder will:
- Propose, develop and implement new initiatives aimed at improving appropriate prescribing of nutrition products across SWL ICB to actively contribute to the overall management of the prescribing budgets
- Ensure that the recommendations and strategies for change are thoroughly evaluated and seek opportunities for publication.
- Develop and monitor the ICB work programme and projects reflecting the objectives of the SWL ICB Medicines Optimisation team, ensuring the priorities of the ICB are addressed
- Manage the development and maintenance of systems to capture appropriate information about the prescribing of nutritional products and outcomes.
- In collaboration with the Medicines value and productivity team, develop tools that help to better track or monitor performance in line with the SWL Medicines Optimisation workplan where required e.g. clinical audit, significant event audit, monitoring and addressing variation.
- Ensure that all work streams including financial, and performance are regularly communicated via the SWL Integrated Medicines Optimisation Committee (IMOG) and Finance Medicines Optimisation Group (FMOG) as appropriate
- Advise, consult and lead on the managed entry of new nutritional products locally into the NHS, review new indications for existing drugs and monitor the effectiveness of those strategies,
