Job summary
- Main area
- Medicines Optimisation
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: None
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (NHS GM operate hybrid working)
- Job ref
- 896-MED-1056
- Employer
- NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tootal Buildings
- Town
- Manchester
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Project lead MO pharmacy technician clinical & quality portfolio
Band 6
Job overview
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 be project management lead on various workstreams both clinical and nonclinical across own locality and as required on behalf of Greater Manchester.
To include managing multiple workstreams simultaneously.
To manage technical input as part of the Medicines Optimisation Team working within locality GP practices and the wider community.
To provide leadership and support to fellow Pharmacy Technicians at own band or below in own locality and across Greater Manchester.
To support with the day to day management of the Pharmacy Technician team in own locality 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
- Support effective communication and stakeholder management, both internally and externally
- Regularly produce, analyse, interpret and present financial & clinical
prescribing data enabling the targeting of support and monitoring of targets.
• Possess advanced skills required to explain prescribing, financial and quality data to prescribers. Make sound recommendations for corrective actions to prescribers and influence a change in prescribing patterns/habits.
• To be project management lead for own projects both internally within the Medicines Optimisation team and outside of the team when supporting GP practices/care providers etc. To be project management lead for GM wide projects. - To develop, implement and complete clinical and non-clinic audits to support Medicines Optimisation objectives and improve prescribing quality.
• To develop and implement Standard Operation Procedures, guidelines, policies & protocols
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 & sensitive, sometimes contentious, information
relating to prescribers’ patterns of prescribing in a manner that is clear, factual but tactful.
Use persuasive, negotiating and motivational skills to encourage prescribers to change their prescribing habits and patterns.
This may include managing difficult situations with colleagues who are upset or expressing challenging behaviour. Necessary to have an advanced understanding of individual prescriber motivation in order to be successful.
Provide complex clinical advice & guidance to prescribers to facilitate clinical discussions such as red/amber/green medications, drugs of low clinical value, antibiotic resistance and management of shared care protocols.
Facilitate and lead meetings including where contentious information is to be discussed such as highlighting areas of prescribing concern to teams outside of own profession.
Where issues such as medication errors, near misses and patient safety
concerns are identified staff must have the skills to appropriately and
professionally challenge colleagues, including senior colleagues, where
appropriate in line with procedures and agreed escalation routes.
Support & contribute to the development 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
Regular use of advanced analyses and/or comparison skills to review clinical and financial data in order to develop action plans
Contribute to strategic planning for the next financial year for locality. For e.g. plans to meet GM CIP & AMR targets, adjustments as necessary.
Plan, organise and coordinate complex programmes of work (such as
antimicrobial/opioid reviews)
Assist in the management & monitoring of the prescribing budget by extracting, analysing, interpreting and reporting on financial prescribing data (including cost) from epact2, BI or clinical systems.
To be responsible for day to day mentoring, management and supervision of Pharmacy Technicians and Medicines Optimisation support staff at band 5 and below. This may include task allocation, inductions, 1:1s, acting as an appointment panel member and provision of basic HR advice.
Person specification
Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Pharmacy Technician Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience as a primary care Pharmacy Technician
- Experience in project management, and/or supporting change management processes
- Experience of prescribing data analysis
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management
Competencies
Essential criteria
- 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 Pharmacy Technician
- Email address
- [email protected]
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