Project lead MO pharmacy technician - value portfolio

Job summary

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

To build and maintain strong relationships and be a key member of teamsoutside of own organisation and facilitate the successful implementation of a wide variety of primary care work streams

Support effective communication and stakeholder management, bothinternally and externally, to promote the Medicines Optimisation,Commissioning, Transformation, Quality and Safety, and Public Healthagendas 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.

Possess advanced skills required to explain prescribing, financial and quality data to prescribers. Make sound recommendations for corrective actions

To be project management lead for own projects. To be project management lead for some GM wide projects

To develop and implement Standard Operation Procedures, guidelines,policies & protocols for own locality and, when required, 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.