Job summary
- Main area
- Medicines Optimisation
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: None
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 896-MED-1053
- Employer
- NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Townside Primary Care Centre
- Town
- Bury
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Project lead medicines optimisation pharmacy technician
Band 6
Job overview
To promote and facilitate safe and effective high quality and cost-effective prescribing and management of medication in base locality and across Greater Manchester.
To be project management lead on various workstreams both clinical and nonclinical across own locality and as required on behalf of Greater Manchester. To include managing multiple workstreams simultaneously.
To manage technical input as part of the Medicines Optimisation Team working within locality GP practices and the wider community.
To provide leadership and support to fellow Pharmacy Technicians at own band or below in own locality and across Greater Manchester.
To support with the day to day management of the Pharmacy Technician team in own locality as required.
Main duties of the job
To identify implement and deliver on Medicines Optimisation and primary care quality and QIPP objectives.
To influence and change prescribing habits of prescribers both in primary and secondary care.
To support the locality and GM Medicines Optimisation teams to ensure that work programmes, strategies and priorities are planned, managed &
implemented effectively and successfully delivered.
To work on GP practice-based, prescribing and primary care initiatives and standards, enabling practices to achieve targets whilst optimising medicines optimisation.
To build and maintain strong relationships and be a key member of teams
outside of own organisation.
To support local authorities to improve and/or assure medicines optimisation within care homes and for patients receiving care in their own homes.
Regularly produce, analyse, interpret and present financial & clinical
prescribing data enabling the targeting of support and monitoring of targets.
Possess advanced skills required to explain prescribing, financial and quality data to prescribers. Make sound recommendations for corrective actions to prescribers and influence a change in prescribing patterns/habits.
To be project management lead for own projects and be project management lead for some GM wide projects.
To develop, implement and complete clinical and non-clinic audits.
Develop and implement Standard Operation Procedures, guidelines,
policies & protocols for own locality and across Greater
Manchester.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Communicate complex and sensitive financial information to prescribers and practice managers about their performance against budgets, standards and targets.
Provide complex & sensitive information directly to patients and/or their carers regarding their medication either verbally or in writing via direct text message / letter or via Patient Information Leaflets/posters.
Provide complex clinical advice & guidance to prescribers to facilitate clinical discussions such as red/amber/green medications, drugs of low clinical value, antibiotic resistance and management of shared care protocols.
Facilitate and lead meetings including where contentious information is to be discussed such as highlighting areas of prescribing concern to teams outside of own profession.
Support & contribute to the development of internal and external
communications, such as prescribing alerts by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and Communications team.
Regularly use advanced computer skills to utilise GP clinical systems to
gather, analyse and interpret patient related prescribing and clinical data.
Requires the ability to identify errors and/or near misses as well as identifying opportunities for optimisation of medicines.
Regular use of advanced analyses and/or comparison skills to review clinical and financial data in order to develop action plans for individual GP practices, PCN’s and locality
Undertake complex and detailed information analysis employing advanced expertise using Business Intelligence (BI) portals such as ePACT2, GM Tableau etc…to generate prescribing information
Review, develop, implement and audit practice repeat prescribing systems. Monitor standards and give support where needed e.g. leading projects within GP surgeries to implement patient led ordering.
Contribute to strategic planning for the next financial year for locality.
Organise medication reviews within Care Homes/home care providers, and plan, organise & develop complex action plans to enable the improvement of medicines optimisation.
Conduct level 1 and level 2 medication review at GP surgeries, patients own homes and care homes providing face to face specialist advice and information and contributing to programmes of care by liaising with other HCP's such as GPs and practice nurses.
Provide specialist advice to patients, carers, colleagues and other healthcare professionals including GPs on a range of specialist subjects including but not limited to; covert medication, best interest decision making, administration via PEG, contraception during treatment with antiepileptics, addiction and risks of long-term opioid use, palliative care medication etc.
Person specification
Professional registration
Essential criteria
- Pharmacy Technician Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience as a primary care Pharmacy Technician
- Experience of prescribing data analysis
- Experience in project management, and/or supporting change management processes
Competencies
Essential criteria
- Ability to create and navigate spreadsheets using Excel.
- Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Salina Callighan
- Job title
- Head of MO, Bury locality
- Email address
- [email protected]
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