Job Description

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 Greater

Manchester.



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.



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 communication

and 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 & clinical

prescribing 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 general

medicines management issues in line with national and regional guidance.



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.



Communicate complex and sensitive financial information to prescribers and other stakeholders about their performance against budgets, standards and targets.



Communicate complex & sensitive, sometimes contentious, information

relating to prescribers' patterns of prescribing in a manner that is clear, factual

but tactful.



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



Responsible for preparation of correspondence and complex papers (for

example creating & implementing a new clinical pathway), reports and audits

as directed by line managers



Demonstrate advanced computer skills using a range of Microsoft (MS)

applications, including but not exclusive to Word, Excel, Outlook, MS Teams

and PowerPoint



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,

PCN's and locality.



Update, maintain, organise, gather and analyse information to predict/meet

future organisational targets and needs by identifying best professional

practice.



Undertake complex and detailed information analysis employing advanced

expertise using Business Intelligence (BI) portals such as ePACT2, GM

Tableau etc...to generate prescribing information, in order to perform

prescribing audits, identify habits and trends in prescribing; using information

gathered 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 teams

via team generic email which may require frequent reprioritisation of workload

in order to respond following an assessment of urgency.



Provide specialist advice to patients, carers, colleagues and other healthcare

professionals including GPs on a range of specialist subjects including but not

limited to; covert medication, best interest decision making, administration via

PEG, contraception during treatment with antiepileptics, addiction and risks of

long-term opioid use, palliative care medication etc



To identify and address issues to support the overall agenda of the Medicines

Optimisation and Primary Care Teams to enable implementation of change in

GP practices, including development and revision of Standard Operating

Procedures (SOPs), patient information leaflets and template letters to support

and inform patients affected by the changes across locality.

To plan, organise, develop, implement and support the introduction of

strategies promoting the efficient and effective use of medicines including the

MO teams' medicines management strategy e.g. e.g. supporting the design

and implementation of medication and clinical pathways.

To audit guidelines and produce recommendations for

improvement/compliance.