Job overview

The post holder will be responsible for the provision of expert pharmaceutical, 
prescribing and medicines optimisation advice to all relevant stakeholders to ensure 
implementation of the medicines optimisation agenda. 
They will promote evidence based, safe, cost effective prescribing, to deliver improved 
patient outcomes, and reduced health inequalities which will be achieved by effective 
working between secondary, intermediate, primary, community and social care 
services.
To provide clinical support and leadership within the Medicines Optimisation team and 
support the implementation and delivery of medicines optimisation initiatives and 
national and local guidance.

Main duties of the job

Be responsible for advising and supporting staff on medicines optimisation issues.

Negotiating changes in prescribing behaviour and influencing opinions on prescribing issues. 

Develop and implement initiatives to support the management of the ICB prescribing budget and to improve the quality of prescribing across NHS GM.

Contributing to short, medium and long term business plans, achieving quality outcomes.

Forge close positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS GM medicines optimisation objectives on a range of business sensitive issues.

Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with NHS staff and providers working on a variety of topics, addressing interdependencies and ensuring alignment.

Contribute to the planning of team projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary. Collate, qualitative and 
quantitative information and lead appropriate analysis to develop robust business cases and contribute to project ‘products’.

Working for our organisation

NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care 

Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations that  come together to plan and deliver joined up services and to improve the health and  wellbeing of people who live and work in their area. Their purpose is to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money and support broader social and economic development in their area efficiency. This will be delivered in neighbourhood, place, combinations of places and GM system.

Our NHS People Promise

Our NHS People Promise –the promise we must all make to each other, to work together to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Like many other employers, NHS GM currently has evidence of unwarranted inequalities in the workforce, most notably in relation to minoritised ethnic, female and\or disabled staff and their intersectionality. As a result, we will use positive action measures to bring benefits to our organisation, including a wider pool of talented, skilled and experienced people from which to recruit and a better understanding of the needs of a more diverse range of customers.