Job summary
- Main area
- Medicines Optimisation
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 896-MED-1050-B
- Employer
- NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Various: HMR locality, Manchester locality and Tameside locality
- Town
- Manchester
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician
Band 5
Job overview
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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 provide technical assistance, working within GP practices to implement and maintain high-quality, cost-effective changes in prescribing patterns and trends and reducing medicines-related risks to patients.
To act as one of the medicines optimisation link persons for specified GP practices to implement medicines optimisation initiatives in line with the primary care, and medicines optimisation priorities.
To undertake prescribing audits and work within Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and support the development of repeat prescribing systems within GP practices as directed by line manager.
Support with the management of Medicines Information enquiries within GP Practice, social care settings or as part of a medicine’s information service.
Process repeat prescriptions for practices.
Complete the reconciliation of medicines detailed in patient medical documents.
Using prescribing data, information, knowledge and technology to contribute to the management of the prescribing budget and improve, inform and support a portfolio of Medicines Optimisation projects, services, and initiatives.
Working across NHS GM or a designated locality on joint workstreams and initiatives and promoting awareness of Medicines Optimisation issues.
Main duties of the job
To identify implement and deliver on Medicines Optimisation and primary care quality and QIPP objectives.
· To work on GP practice-based, prescribing, primary care initiatives and standards, to enable 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
Regularly produce, analyse, interpret and present financial & clinical prescribing data at practice, PCN, locality and Greater Manchester level, enabling the targeting of support and monitoring of targets.
· To develop, implement and complete clinical and non-clinic audits to support Medicines Optimisation objectives and improve prescribing quality.
· To contribute to the development and implement Standard Operation Procedures, guidelines, policies & protocols for own locality.
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· To provide information, advice and query answering in relation to general medicines management issues
· To carry out medication optimisation reviews in a domiciliary, care home or clinic setting meet with vulnerable patients and carers referred by other healthcare or social care professionals or identified during audit.
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.
· Support & contribute to the development and of internal and external communications, such as prescribing alerts by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and Communications team.
· Demonstrate advanced computer skills using a range of Microsoft (MS) applications, including but not exclusive to Word, Excel, Outlook, MS Teams and PowerPoint.
Regularly use advanced computer skills to utilise GP clinical systems to gather, analyse and interpret patient related prescribing and clinical data. To supplement this with information from patient's Lloyd George paper records if needed, in order to undertake clinical audits arising from the primary care, Medicines Optimisation work streams and priority areas in line with current local and national guidelines. Requires the ability to identify errors and/or near misses as well as identifying opportunities for optimisation of medicines.
· Review, develop, implement and audit practice repeat prescribing systems. Monitor standards and give support where needed e.g. supporting projects within GP surgeries to implement patient led ordering.
Manage own work plans for individual GP practices to ensure accurate delivery of areas of the Medicines Optimisation work programme
· Triage and prioritise referrals for medication optimisation reviews, incorporating audit processes to reduce inappropriate referrals and ensure appropriate signposting.
· Respond to unplanned queries and requests for support from internal and external teams via team generic email which may require frequent reprioritisation of workload in order to respond following an assessment of urgency.
· Organise medication reviews within Care Homes/home care providers, and plan, organise & contribute to the development of complex action plans to enable the improvement of medicines optimisation. Will require skills to coordinate activities, provision and availability of own team and other professionals such as social workers, GP, local authority commissioning teams, CD police liaison officers etc.
· 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 Health Care Professional'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, addiction and risks of long-term opioid use, etc.
To inform patients or carers of any changes to medication made by the post holder. This may include directly contacting a patient, e.g. speaking with patients to advise them that their medication is changing from drug A to drug B, the reasons for it and answering any questions or concerns that they may have
Contribute to the financial delivery of locality Medicines Optimisation Team ensuring it is cost effective and delivered on time
· Support with the identification of opportunities for cost effective prescribing and implement cost-reduction strategies.
May be responsible for some day-to-day mentoring, and supervision of newly employed Pharmacy Technicians and Medicines Optimisation support staff undertaking elements of induction to support the development of knowledge.
· Audit the implementation of standard clinical guidance (local and national).
Person specification
PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
Essential criteria
- Registration as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive, post qualification experience as a hospital, primary care or community Pharmacy Technician.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Working knowledge of Medicines Optimisation and Cost Improvement Programmes
- Excellent IT skills including knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Competencies
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action.
- Ability to create and navigate spreadsheets using Excel.
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
- Brett Finch
- Job title
- Cluster lead MO pharmacy technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
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