• Job Description

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  Job summary

  The Cluster Lead Pharmacy Technician will play an integral role in the GM Medicines Optimisation team in shaping the future of pharmacy and medicines optimisation across Greater Manchester.

  Through previous experience, knowledge and skills, the post holder will quickly build credibility with partners to enable NHS GM to be assured of high quality, safe services. They will motivate, inspire and work collaboratively to support the transformation and maturing of NHS GM.

  They will lead the development of cluster working arrangements for medicines optimisation across assigned locality/place teams and ensure delivery of the medicines optimisation strategy and operational plan.

  The post holder will lead the development of associated operational plans for Greater Manchester and will bring knowledge and experience, sufficient to support the delivery of integrated working, transformational change and will take the lead and manage technical input in a complex and dynamic public sector environment and across organisational boundaries.

  Main duties of the job

  • Coordinate and lead the development and ensure implementation of Cluster wide workstreams e.g. work streams for cost improvement, population health management and reducing health inequalities.
  • Build key relationships with all health and social care professionals system-wide.
  • Take the lead, organise and manage technical input as part of the Medicines Optimisation Team working across GM
  • To support the Lead Pharmacy Technician with the co-ordination of training and development, with a focus on developing the Medicines Optimisation technician workforce
  • To ensure the successful delivery of CIP targets and support the implementation of quality initiatives and standards.
  • Develop and implement policies and procedures for internal and external use.
  • Work at a GM and regional level where appropriate to support the implementation of policy and process for medicines optimisation teams by being an active member of key work/task & finish groups such as IPMO and proxy ordering.
  • Provide technical & clinical expertise, advice & leadership to the technician workforce.
  • The postholder will have effective communication and stakeholder management.
  • To interpret data and have the skills to explain prescribing, financial and quality data to internal and external stakeholders.

  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, 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

  16 May 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 7

  Salary

  £46,148 to £52,809 a year pa

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  896-MED-1059

  Job locations

  Lever Chambers Centre for Health

  27 Ashburner Street

  Bolton

  BL1 1SQ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Coordinate the development of the Cluster wide medicines optimisation plan and ensure delivery of agreed objectives.

  Lead on the development of cluster wide integration of pharmacy and place based partnerships.

  Contribute to the strategic planning of team projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on wider organisational, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.

  Contribute to the development of performance and governance strategies and the development and implementation of improvement programmes in accordance with locality and PCN priorities.

  Coordinate across cluster to ensure technical resource is prioritised, organised and managed in accordance with the needs work-plans.

  Support team members to manage and prioritise their own workload through effective time management skill sharing.

  To be responsible for the personal development of the technician workforce in own locality and their attendance at planned and mandatory training.

  Support the Portfolio & cluster Leads in devising work plans for Place based medicines optimisation teams to implement

  Contribute to strategic planning for the next financial year within assigned Portfolios of work and have the ability to make adjustments in year when necessary.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Coordinate the development of the Cluster wide medicines optimisation plan and ensure delivery of agreed objectives.

  Lead on the development of cluster wide integration of pharmacy and place based partnerships.

  Contribute to the strategic planning of team projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on wider organisational, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.

  Contribute to the development of performance and governance strategies and the development and implementation of improvement programmes in accordance with locality and PCN priorities.

  Coordinate across cluster to ensure technical resource is prioritised, organised and managed in accordance with the needs work-plans.

  Support team members to manage and prioritise their own workload through effective time management skill sharing.

  To be responsible for the personal development of the technician workforce in own locality and their attendance at planned and mandatory training.

  Support the Portfolio & cluster Leads in devising work plans for Place based medicines optimisation teams to implement

  Contribute to strategic planning for the next financial year within assigned Portfolios of work and have the ability to make adjustments in year when necessary.

  Person Specification

  Professional Registration

  Essential

  • Pharmacy Technician Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Management /leadership experience or qualification.

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience in project management, and/or supporting change management processes
  • Significant experience as a Primary Care Senior Pharmacy Technician
  • Experience of line managing staff
  • Experience in communications and stakeholder management

  Person Specification

  Professional Registration

  Essential

  • Pharmacy Technician Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Management /leadership experience or qualification.

  Experience

  Essential

  • Experience in project management, and/or supporting change management processes
  • Significant experience as a Primary Care Senior Pharmacy Technician
  • Experience of line managing staff
  • Experience in communications and stakeholder management

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Additional information

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  UK Registration

  Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

  Employer details

  Employer name

  NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care

  Address

  Lever Chambers Centre for Health

  27 Ashburner Street

  Bolton

  BL1 1SQ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.gmsharedservices.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care

  Address

  Lever Chambers Centre for Health

  27 Ashburner Street

  Bolton

  BL1 1SQ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.gmsharedservices.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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