Job Description

This role is in the
Secondary Care Integration & Commissioning Portfolio.
The post holder will be responsible for the provision of expert pharmaceutical, prescribing and medicines optimisation advice to all relevant stakeholders to ensure implementation of the medicine's optimisation agenda.
They will promote evidence based, safe, cost-effective prescribing, to deliver improved patient outcomes, and reduced health inequalities. This will be achieved by understanding the interface between sectors of care and effective working between secondary, intermediate, primary, community and social care services.
They will have ability to analyse and interpret complex information to develop evidence-based clinical pathways, guidelines and commissioning policies and to support monitoring and management of high-cost drugs prescribing and expenditure in secondary care.
The post holder will provide clinical support and leadership within the Medicines Optimisation team and support the implementation and delivery of medicines optimisation initiatives and national and local guidance.
Main duties of the job
Promoting high quality, safe and cost-effective prescribing informed by the evidence base, national and local guidance.
Negotiating changes in prescribing behaviour and influencing opinions on prescribing issues.
Develop and implement initiatives to support the management of the ICB prescribing budget and to improve the quality of prescribing across NHS GM. Contributing to short-, medium- and long-term business plans, achieving quality outcomes.
Forge close positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS GM medicines optimisation objectives on a range of business sensitive issues.
Contribute to the planning of team projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.
To support, motivate and develop staff within the Medicines Optimisation Team to ensure that they are able to deliver the Medicines Optimisation Agenda and support the Medicines Optimisation Strategy.
Make professional decisions where appropriate and take responsibility for them, working within professional standards of conduct, ethics and performance at all times.
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 andor disabled staff and their intersectionality. As a result, we will use positive action measures to bring benefits to our organisation, includinga 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.
Details
Date posted
18 September 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
55,690 to 62,682 a year pa
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Home or remote working
Reference number
896-MED-1058-A
Job locations
Tootal Buildings
56 Oxford Street
Manchester
M16EU
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be required to communicate and provide highly complex and highly sensitive information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
Present complex information about projects, initiatives and services to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting, persuading others and negotiating change in prescribing habits.
To communicate and negotiate with provider organisations e.g. acute trusts mental health and GMMMG in the production of clinical guidelines, shared care protocols, formulary drugs etc. to assure clinical relevance and accuracy of these documents.
Attend and advise any relevant groups within the locality and GM, as required, as the clinical specialist from the Medicines Optimisation Team.
Demonstrate effective stakeholder management across different departments and at all levels.
Link with managers and members of other functions, to address inter-dependencies and ensure alignment.
To influence and monitor prescribing costs, promote cost effective prescribing and minimise wastage of medicines.
Develop, implement and monitor policies, guidelines and protocols to ensure the safe, evidence based, cost effective use of medicines in line with local priorities, national directives, medicines legislation and professional ethics.
Ensure that relevant activity and outcome data is recorded and reported in an accurate and timely fashion to all relevant stakeholders. This will require the ability to adapt multiple sources of information in order to record and report appropriate data.
Includes delivery of NHS GM and national objectives and targets, e.g. QIPP targets and implementation of NICE guidance.
Leading on specific clinical issues or project areas Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be required to communicate and provide highly complex and highly sensitive information to a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
Present complex information about projects, initiatives and services to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting, persuading others and negotiating change in prescribing habits.
To communicate and negotiate with provider organisations e.g. acute trusts mental health and GMMMG in the production of clinical guidelines, shared care protocols, formulary drugs etc. to assure clinical relevance and accuracy of these documents.
Attend and advise any relevant groups within the locality and GM, as required, as the clinical specialist from the Medicines Optimisation Team.
Demonstrate effective stakeholder management across different departments and at all levels.
Link with managers and members of other functions, to address inter-dependencies and ensure alignment.
To influence and monitor prescribing costs, promote cost effective prescribing and minimise wastage of medicines.
Develop, implement and monitor policies, guidelines and protocols to ensure the safe, evidence based, cost effective use of medicines in line with local priorities, national directives, medicines legislation and professional ethics.
Ensure that relevant activity and outcome data is recorded and reported in an accurate and timely fashion to all relevant stakeholders. This will require the ability to adapt multiple sources of information in order to record and report appropriate data.
Includes delivery of NHS GM and national objectives and targets, e.g. QIPP targets and implementation of NICE guidance.
Leading on specific clinical issues or project areas
Person Specification
Professional registration
Essential

• Pharmacist registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Qualifications
Essential

• Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or equivalent experience

Experience
Essential

• Experience of leading successful implementation of change
• Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy

Knowledge
Essential

• Excellent working knowledge of national and local pharmaceutical and prescribing policies, legislation and guidance

Competencies
Essential

• Excellent inter-personal, influencing and negotiating skills

Person Specification
Professional registration
Essential

• Pharmacist registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Qualifications
Essential

• Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or equivalent experience

Experience
Essential

• Experience of leading successful implementation of change
• Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy

Knowledge
Essential

• Excellent working knowledge of national and local pharmaceutical and prescribing policies, legislation and guidance

Competencies
Essential

• Excellent inter-personal, influencing and negotiating skills

Skills Required