Trosolwg o'r swydd

Are you looking for an exciting new challenge? If so, we are looking for three highly motivated Pharmacy Technicians to improve Medicines Optimisation across Greater Manchester.

2  positions available in Trafford locality (1 with a GP Practice focus and 1 with a care homes focus)

1  position available in Wigan locality (GP Practice and care homes focus)

The post holder will be responsible for promoting and facilitating safe and effective high quality and cost-effective prescribing and management of medication in base locality and across Greater Manchester.

They will provide technical assistance, working in GP practices to implement and maintain high-quality, cost-effective changes in prescribing patterns and trends and reducing medicines related risks.

They will act as one of the medicines optimisation link persons for specified GP practices and care homes to implement medicines optimisation initiatives in line with the Primary care and medicines optimisation priorities.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

As a Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician you will support the delivery of the Medicines Optimisation work plan in GP practices. 

You will be required to travel across the locality  reviewing  prescribing within GP practices and make evidence based recommendations to improve patient outcomes in a variety of clinical areas focusing on quality, safety and waste.

For the care homes focused roles, you will also be required to regularly travel to and work on-site at care homes. 

You will liaise with secondary care providers, community pharmacies, care homes and other stakeholders as required to implement medicines optimisation.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

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 enconomic 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