Job Description

Medicines Optimisation Function in NHS Greater Manchester



The medicines optimisation function plays an integral role in shaping the future of health and social care by embedding the use of evidence-based, high quality, safe and cost-effective medicines and medical devices across the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership (GMICP). The function reports to the Medical Directorate and Clinical and Care Professional Leadership (CCPL) which leads the clinical planning and delivery of the GMICP strategy.



The function delivers against 6 defined pillars (medicines commissioning, medicines finance, medicines safety and quality, medicines across the system, practice-based pharmacy and CCPL) and is distributed across 10 Place-Based Partnerships and coordinated through a strategic function.



Medicines Optimisation Team at Place



The Medicines Optimisation team will jointly report to the Chief Pharmacist and the CCPL and Deputy Place- Based Lead at Place. The team will contribute to the development of the NHS GM medicines optimisation agenda, and successfully deliver this and the function across the Place-based partnership, with a key focus on population health management, addressing health inequalities and creating a financial sustainable system.

Post location is:

Tameside locality within Greater Manchester ICB - Travel between GP practices will/maybe required



Liaise with teams across the function and support the development of medicines optimisation plans to ensure safe and effective medicines optimisation services are offered to patients. Deliver the medicines optimisation plan to ensure safe and effective medicines optimisation service is offered to patients within assigned GP practices across a Cluster. Build strong relationships with GP practices and other prescribers to facilitate delivery of prescribing priorities. In particular, continue to develop and support practice prescribing leads as conduit for influencing prescribing behaviour in practices. Provide pharmaceutical expertise to promote and embed evidence-based, high quality, safe and cost-effective prescribing to improve patient outcomes and maintain a financial sustainable system. Support prescribers to manage their prescribing within the prescribing budget and support Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technicians on joint projects and initiatives to promote awareness medicines optimisation issues Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise as directed by your Place-based medicines optimisation team. Support the coordination of training & development and recruitment activity across the Place-based medicines optimisation team and wider medicines optimisation function.

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 andor 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.



Provide expert advice on pharmaceutical matters including medicines related queries, cost-effective prescribing, medicines legislation and professional ethics.



Communicate sensitive/contentious and occasionally highly complex medicine related information and advice to GPs, other members of the primary health and social care teams, patients and carers.



Communicate prescribing issues to relevant healthcare professionals within the practice team often using influencing/negotiating skills with prescribers to promote evidence based, quality prescribing.



Hold the ability to respond at a variety of different levels to patients, clinicians and the wider healthcare team on matters relating to prescribing, medication and medicine use



Provide high quality patient education on medicine use. This includes formal presentations to large patient groups and Patient and Public Advisory Group (PPAG) as well as individualised information and medication adherence interventions



Create and deliver presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.



Support the development of standard operating procedures, policies, guidelines for use by the medicines optimisation team.



Use appropriate analysis of prescribing data (ePACT) and knowledge of individual practices to prioritise areas of prescribing that require work.



Ensure that effective and relevant analytical information is provided to prescribers to support quality, safety and cost-effective prescribing decisions.