Job overview

This role is in the secondary care integration & commissioning portfolio. 

To promote and facilitate safe and effective high quality and cost-effective prescribing and management of medication across Greater 
Manchester.

To be project management lead on various workstreams for both clinical and nonclinical across Greater Manchester. 

To include managing multiple workstreams simultaneously. 

To manage technical input as part of the Medicines Optimisation Team working across the interface.

To provide leadership and support to fellow Pharmacy Technicians at own band or below in own portfolio and across Greater Manchester. 

To support with the day to day management of the Pharmacy Technician team in own Portfolio 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 build and maintain strong relationships and be a key member of teams outside of own organisation to promote and facilitate the successful implementation of a wide variety of primary care work streams to optimise patient care and ensure cost-effective prescribing whilst ensuring accurate and open communication 
and co-ordination of projects to achieve common targets/goals.

Support effective communication and stakeholder management, both internally and externally, to promote the Medicines Optimisation, Commissioning, Transformation, Quality and Safety, and Public Health agendas as required.

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 and implement Standard Operation Procedures, guidelines, 
policies & protocols for Greater Manchester

To provide information, advice and query answering in relation to general 
medicines management issues in line with national and regional guidance.

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.