Job summary
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 GreaterManchester.
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 communicationand 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 & clinicalprescribing 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 generalmedicines management issues in line with national and regional guidance.
About us
NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care
Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisationsthat come together to plan and deliver joined up services and to improve the healthand wellbeing of people who live and work in their area. Their purpose is to improveoutcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes,experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money and supportbroader social and economic development in their area efficiency. This will bedelivered 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 worktogether to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Like manyother employers, NHS GM currently has evidence of unwarranted inequalities in theworkforce, most notably in relation to minoritised ethnic, female and\or disabled staffand their intersectionality. As a result, we will use positive action measures to bringbenefits to our organisation, including a wider pool of talented, skilled andexperienced people from which to recruit and a better understanding of the needs ofa more diverse range of customers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communicate complex and sensitive financial information to prescribers and other stakeholders about their performance against budgets, standards and targets.
Communicate complex & sensitive, sometimes contentious, informationrelating to prescribers patterns of prescribing in a manner that is clear, factualbut tactful.
Provide complex clinical advice & guidance to prescribers to facilitate clinicaldiscussions 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 bediscussed such as highlighting areas of prescribing concern to teams outsideof own profession
Responsible for preparation of correspondence and complex papers (forexample creating & implementing a new clinical pathway), reports and auditsas directed by line managers
Demonstrate advanced computer skills using a range of Microsoft (MS)applications, including but not exclusive to Word, Excel, Outlook, MS Teamsand PowerPoint
Regular use of advanced analyses and/or comparison skills to review clinicaland financial data in order to develop action plans for individual GP practices,PCNs and locality.
Update, maintain, organise, gather and analyse information to predict/meetfuture organisational targets and needs by identifying best professionalpractice.
Undertake complex and detailed information analysis employing advancedexpertise using Business Intelligence (BI) portals such as ePACT2, GMTableau etcto generate prescribing information, in order to performprescribing audits, identify habits and trends in prescribing; using informationgathered to monitor prescribers progress, provide feedback
Contribute to strategic planning for the next financial year for locality. For e.g.plans to meet GM QIPP & AMR targets, adjustments as necessary.
Respond to unplanned queries and requests for support from external teamsvia team generic email which may require frequent reprioritisation of workloadin order to respond following an assessment of urgency.
Provide specialist advice to patients, carers, colleagues and other healthcareprofessionals including GPs on a range of specialist subjects including but notlimited to; covert medication, best interest decision making, administration viaPEG, contraception during treatment with antiepileptics, addiction and risks oflong-term opioid use, palliative care medication etc
To identify and address issues to support the overall agenda of the MedicinesOptimisation and Primary Care Teams to enable implementation of change inGP practices, including development and revision of Standard OperatingProcedures (SOPs), patient information leaflets and template letters to supportand inform patients affected by the changes across locality. To plan, organise, develop, implement and support the introduction ofstrategies promoting the efficient and effective use of medicines including theMO teams medicines management strategy e.g. e.g. supporting the designand implementation of medication and clinical pathways. To audit guidelines and produce recommendations forimprovement/compliance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Communicate complex and sensitive financial information to prescribers and other stakeholders about their performance against budgets, standards and targets.
Communicate complex & sensitive, sometimes contentious, informationrelating to prescribers patterns of prescribing in a manner that is clear, factualbut tactful.
Provide complex clinical advice & guidance to prescribers to facilitate clinicaldiscussions 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 bediscussed such as highlighting areas of prescribing concern to teams outsideof own profession
Responsible for preparation of correspondence and complex papers (forexample creating & implementing a new clinical pathway), reports and auditsas directed by line managers
Demonstrate advanced computer skills using a range of Microsoft (MS)applications, including but not exclusive to Word, Excel, Outlook, MS Teamsand PowerPoint
Regular use of advanced analyses and/or comparison skills to review clinicaland financial data in order to develop action plans for individual GP practices,PCNs and locality.
Update, maintain, organise, gather and analyse information to predict/meetfuture organisational targets and needs by identifying best professionalpractice.
Undertake complex and detailed information analysis employing advancedexpertise using Business Intelligence (BI) portals such as ePACT2, GMTableau etcto generate prescribing information, in order to performprescribing audits, identify habits and trends in prescribing; using informationgathered to monitor prescribers progress, provide feedback
Contribute to strategic planning for the next financial year for locality. For e.g.plans to meet GM QIPP & AMR targets, adjustments as necessary.
Respond to unplanned queries and requests for support from external teamsvia team generic email which may require frequent reprioritisation of workloadin order to respond following an assessment of urgency.
Provide specialist advice to patients, carers, colleagues and other healthcareprofessionals including GPs on a range of specialist subjects including but notlimited to; covert medication, best interest decision making, administration viaPEG, contraception during treatment with antiepileptics, addiction and risks oflong-term opioid use, palliative care medication etc
To identify and address issues to support the overall agenda of the MedicinesOptimisation and Primary Care Teams to enable implementation of change inGP practices, including development and revision of Standard OperatingProcedures (SOPs), patient information leaflets and template letters to supportand inform patients affected by the changes across locality. To plan, organise, develop, implement and support the introduction ofstrategies promoting the efficient and effective use of medicines including theMO teams medicines management strategy e.g. e.g. supporting the designand implementation of medication and clinical pathways. To audit guidelines and produce recommendations forimprovement/compliance.
Person Specification
Proffessional registration
Essential
- Pharmacy Technician Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience as a primary care Pharmacy Technician
- Experience in project management, and/or supporting change management processes
Competencies
Essential
- Ability to create and navigate spreadsheets using Excel
- Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring negotiation, persuasion and influence
Person Specification
Proffessional registration
Essential
- Pharmacy Technician Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience as a primary care Pharmacy Technician
- Experience in project management, and/or supporting change management processes
Competencies
Essential
- Ability to create and navigate spreadsheets using Excel
- Skills for communication on complex matters and difficult situations, requiring negotiation, persuasion and influence
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).