Job summary
An exciting opportunity is now available to join the NHS Greater Manchester (Manchester Locality) Medicines Optimisation team in the role of Project Lead Medicine Optimisation Technician. This role is fixed-term covering a staff member currently on a career break.
To promote and facilitate safe and effective high quality and cost-effective prescribing and management of medication in base locality and across Greater Manchester. This role requires regular travel to multiple GP practice and office locations.
To be project management lead on various workstreams both clinical and non-clinical 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 initiatives and Cost-Improvement Plans (CIP).
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 work on GP practice-based, prescribing and primary care initiatives and standards, enabling practices to achieve targets whilst optimising medicines optimisation.
To build and maintain strong relationships and be a key member of teamsoutside of own organisation.
Regularly produce, analyse, interpret and present financial & clinicalprescribing 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 and be project management lead for some GM wide projects.
To develop, implement and complete clinical and non-clinic audits.
Develop and implement Standard Operation Procedures, guidelines,policies & protocols for own locality and across GreaterManchester.
About us
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.
Working across NHS GM or a designated locality on joint workstreams and initiatives and promoting awareness of Medicines Optimisation issues. This role will require direct regular travel to GM & stakeholder locations
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communicate complex and sensitive financial information to prescribers and practice managers about their performance against budgets, standards and targets.
Provide complex & sensitive information directly to patients and/or their carers regarding their medication either verbally or in writing via direct text message / letter or via Patient Information Leaflets/posters.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.
Support & contribute to the development of internal and externalcommunications, such as prescribing alerts by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and communications team.
Regularly use advanced computer skills to utilise GP clinical systems togather, analyse and interpret patient related prescribing and clinical data.
Requires the ability to identify errors and/or near misses as well as identifying opportunities for optimisation of medicines.Regular use of advanced analyses and/or comparison skills to review clinical and financial data in order to develop action plans for individual GP practices, PCNs and locality.
Working across NHS GM or a designated locality on joint workstreams and initiatives and promoting awareness of Medicines Optimisation issues. This role will require direct regular travel to GM & stakeholder locations
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communicate complex and sensitive financial information to prescribers and practice managers about their performance against budgets, standards and targets.
Provide complex & sensitive information directly to patients and/or their carers regarding their medication either verbally or in writing via direct text message / letter or via Patient Information Leaflets/posters.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.
Support & contribute to the development of internal and externalcommunications, such as prescribing alerts by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and communications team.
Regularly use advanced computer skills to utilise GP clinical systems togather, analyse and interpret patient related prescribing and clinical data.
Requires the ability to identify errors and/or near misses as well as identifying opportunities for optimisation of medicines.Regular use of advanced analyses and/or comparison skills to review clinical and financial data in order to develop action plans for individual GP practices, PCNs and locality.
Working across NHS GM or a designated locality on joint workstreams and initiatives and promoting awareness of Medicines Optimisation issues. This role will require direct regular travel to GM & stakeholder locations
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of professional registration
- Qualification- Level 3 NVQ or BTEC Pharmaceutical Sciences
Desirable
- CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Course or suitable equivalent
- Project management qualification e.g., PRINCE2
Experience
Essential
- Understanding of clinical audit
- IT literate
- Ability to use a range of IT applications e.g., Microsoft Office, Outlook, Word and Excel
- Experience with relevant IT systems and data tools, e.g., EMIS, Epact2
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Good time management skills
Desirable
- Experience in project management
- Ability to influence change
Knowledge
Essential
- Basic knowledge of role of provision of health care
- Understanding of the health and social care system in Manchester
- Understanding of information governance e.g., patient confidentiality
- Understanding the role of the Integrated Care System and pharmacy professionals in General Practice in the NHS
- Understanding of Primary Care Networks and the DES requirements
Desirable
- Understanding of current medicines optimisation issues
Competencies
Essential
- Ability to work on own initiative and prioritise work
- Self-motivated
- Commitment to continuing professional development / education
- Ability to influence and negotiate
- Ability to work flexibly within the wider health economy
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of professional registration
- Qualification- Level 3 NVQ or BTEC Pharmaceutical Sciences
Desirable
- CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Course or suitable equivalent
- Project management qualification e.g., PRINCE2
Experience
Essential
- Understanding of clinical audit
- IT literate
- Ability to use a range of IT applications e.g., Microsoft Office, Outlook, Word and Excel
- Experience with relevant IT systems and data tools, e.g., EMIS, Epact2
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Good time management skills
Desirable
- Experience in project management
- Ability to influence change
Knowledge
Essential
- Basic knowledge of role of provision of health care
- Understanding of the health and social care system in Manchester
- Understanding of information governance e.g., patient confidentiality
- Understanding the role of the Integrated Care System and pharmacy professionals in General Practice in the NHS
- Understanding of Primary Care Networks and the DES requirements
Desirable
- Understanding of current medicines optimisation issues
Competencies
Essential
- Ability to work on own initiative and prioritise work
- Self-motivated
- Commitment to continuing professional development / education
- Ability to influence and negotiate
- Ability to work flexibly within the wider health economy
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).