Job summary
- Main area
- Medicines Optimisation
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 896-MED-1058
- Employer
- NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tootal Buildings
- Town
- Manchester
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Medicines Optimisation pharmacist
Band 8a
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
Promoting high quality, safe and cost-effective prescribing informed by the evidence base, national and local guidance.
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.
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.
To support, motivate and develop staff within the Medicines Optimisation Team to ensure that they are able to deliver the Medicines Optimisation Agenda and support the Medicines Optimisation Strategy.
Make professional decisions where appropriate and take responsibility for them, working within professional standards of conduct, ethics and performance at all times.
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
The post holder will be required to communicate and provide highly complex and highly sensitive information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
Present complex information about projects, initiatives and services to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting, persuading others and negotiating change in prescribing habits.
To communicate and negotiate with provider organisations e.g. acute trusts mental health and GMMMG in the production of clinical guidelines, shared care protocols, formulary drugs etc. to assure clinical relevance and accuracy of these documents.
Attend and advise any relevant groups within the locality and GM, as required, as the clinical specialist from the Medicines Optimisation Team.
Demonstrate effective stakeholder management across different departments and at all levels.
Link with managers and members of other functions, to address inter-dependencies and ensure alignment.
To influence and monitor prescribing costs, promote cost effective prescribing and minimise wastage of medicines.
Develop, implement and monitor policies, guidelines and protocols to ensure the safe, evidence based, cost effective use of medicines in line with local priorities, national directives, medicines legislation and professional ethics.
Ensure that relevant activity and outcome data is recorded and reported in an accurate and timely fashion to all relevant stakeholders. This will require the ability to adapt multiple sources of information in order to record and report appropriate data.
Includes delivery of NHS GM and national objectives and targets, e.g. QIPP targets and implementation of NICE guidance.
Leading on specific clinical issues or project areas
Person specification
Professional registration
Essential criteria
- Pharmacist registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or equivalent experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of leading successful implementation of change
- Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Excellent working knowledge of national and local pharmaceutical and prescribing policies, legislation and guidance
Competencies
Essential criteria
- Excellent inter-personal, influencing and negotiating skills
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
- Anna Pracz
- Job title
- Portfolio lead pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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