Project Lead Medicine Optimisation Technician

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 work streams both clinical and non-clinical across own locality and as required on behalf of Greater Manchester. To include managing multiple work streams 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.

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 teams outside of own organisation.

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 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 Greater Manchester.

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
-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 r 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 work streams and initiatives and promoting awareness of Medicines Optimisation issues. This role will require direct regular travel to GM & stakeholder locations

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…