Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Hybrid working between practice based and office. Some travel between multiple practices maybe required)
- Job ref
- 896-MED-1071-A
- Employer
- NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NHS Greater Manchester - Trafford Locality
- Town
- Stretford, Trafford
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician
Band 5
Job overview
Trafford Locality within NHS Greater Manchester ICB
Are you looking for an exciting new challenge? If so, we are looking for two highly motivated Pharmacy Technicians to improve Medicines Optimisation across the Trafford locality and Greater Manchester.
One position has a GP Practice focus, and the other position will also include work with care homes.
The post holder will be responsible for promoting and facilitating safe and effective high quality and cost-effective prescribing and management of medication in the Trafford locality and across Greater Manchester.
They will provide technical assistance, working with 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.
Main duties of the job
As a Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician, you will support the delivery of the Medicines Optimisation work plan in GP practices through a hybrid pattern of on-site work and remote home working.
You will be required to travel across the Trafford 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. Travel to meetings in other Greater Manchester locations is sometimes required.
For the care home focused role, 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.
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 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To identify implement and deliver on Medicines Optimisation, 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 implemented effectively and successfully delivered.
Develop, implement and complete clinical and non-clinical audits to support Medicines Optimisation objectives and improve prescribing quality
To provide information, advice and query answering in relation to general medicines management issues in line with national and regional guidance
Using prescribing data, information, knowledge and technology to contribute to the management of the prescribing budget and improve and support a portfolio of Medicines Optimisation projects, services and initiatives.
To participate in the training of GP practice staff, community pharmacy staff and other multi-disciplinary health and social care professionals, where appropriate.
To support local authorities to improve and/or assure medicines optimisation within care homes and for patients receiving care in their own homes. To provide technical and clinical advice to multidisciplinary teams, including as part of safeguarding investigations.
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.
To communicate effectively within various multidisciplinary teams and have the capacity to support and reassure patients when necessary. This includes having difficult discussions concerning sensitive issues, after assessing risk and potential harm associated with medication.
Work with all wider teams and contribute on a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency basis to contribute to the overall health care quality improvement and health inequalities agenda, including providing medicines related advice to support improved patient care pathway.
Person specification
Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Pharmacy Technician registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Level 3 NVQ in Pharmacy Services Skills, or BTEC pharmaceutical sciences
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post qualification experience as a hospital, primary care or community Pharmacy Technician
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivering training
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to use prescription analyses software such as ePACT2 and the BI tool.
Desirable criteria
- Working knowledge of GP clinical systems e.g. EMIS
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
- Lisa Pridgeon
- Job title
- Project Lead Medicines Optimisation Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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