• Job Description

  Req#: I9236-25-0035?language=en&page=975&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  To promote and facilitate safe and effective high quality and cost-effective prescribing and management of medication in base locality and across Greater Manchester.

  To be project management lead on various workstreams both clinical and nonclinical across own locality and as required on behalf of Greater Manchester. To include managing multiple workstreams 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.

  Main duties of the job

  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 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 teamsoutside of own organisation.

  To support local authorities to improve and/or assure medicines optimisation within care homes and for patients receiving care in their own homes.

  Regularly produce, analyse, interpret and present financial & clinicalprescribing 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 GreaterManchester.

  About us

  NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care

  Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisationsthat come together to plan and deliver joined up services and to improve the healthand wellbeing of people who live and work in their area. Their purpose is to improveoutcomes in population health and healthcare; tackle inequalities in outcomes,experience, and access; enhance productivity and value for money and supportbroader social and economic development in their area efficiency. This will bedelivered 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 worktogether to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Like manyother employers, NHS GM currently has evidence of unwarranted inequalities in theworkforce, most notably in relation to minoritised ethnic, female and\or disabled staffand their intersectionality. As a result, we will use positive action measures to bringbenefits to our organisation, including a wider pool of talented, skilled andexperienced people from which to recruit and a better understanding of the needs ofa more diverse range of customers.

  Details

  Date posted

  09 May 2025

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 6

  Salary

  £37,338 to £44,962 a year pa

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Flexible working

  Reference number

  896-MED-1053

  Job locations

  Townside Primary Care Centre

  1 Knowsley Street

  Bury

  BL90SN

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  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 either verbally or in writing via direct text message / letter or via Patient Information Leaflets/posters.

  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.

  Support & contribute to the development of internal and externalcommunications, such as prescribing alerts by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and Communications team.

  Regularly use advanced computer skills to utilise GP clinical systems togather, analyse and interpret patient related prescribing and clinical data.Requires the ability to identify errors and/or near misses as well as identifying opportunities for optimisation of medicines.

  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, PCNs and locality

  Undertake complex and detailed information analysis employing advanced expertise using Business Intelligence (BI) portals such as ePACT2, GM Tableau etcto generate prescribing information

  Review, develop, implement and audit practice repeat prescribing systems. Monitor standards and give support where needed e.g. leading projects within GP surgeries to implement patient led ordering.

  Contribute to strategic planning for the next financial year for locality.

  Organise medication reviews within Care Homes/home care providers, and plan, organise & develop complex action plans to enable the improvement of medicines optimisation.

  Conduct level 1 and level 2 medication review at GP surgeries, patients own homes and care homes providing face to face specialist advice and information and contributing to programmes of care by liaising with other HCP's such as GPs and practice nurses.

  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.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  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 either verbally or in writing via direct text message / letter or via Patient Information Leaflets/posters.

  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.

  Support & contribute to the development of internal and externalcommunications, such as prescribing alerts by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and Communications team.

  Regularly use advanced computer skills to utilise GP clinical systems togather, analyse and interpret patient related prescribing and clinical data.Requires the ability to identify errors and/or near misses as well as identifying opportunities for optimisation of medicines.

  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, PCNs and locality

  Undertake complex and detailed information analysis employing advanced expertise using Business Intelligence (BI) portals such as ePACT2, GM Tableau etcto generate prescribing information

  Review, develop, implement and audit practice repeat prescribing systems. Monitor standards and give support where needed e.g. leading projects within GP surgeries to implement patient led ordering.

  Contribute to strategic planning for the next financial year for locality.

  Organise medication reviews within Care Homes/home care providers, and plan, organise & develop complex action plans to enable the improvement of medicines optimisation.

  Conduct level 1 and level 2 medication review at GP surgeries, patients own homes and care homes providing face to face specialist advice and information and contributing to programmes of care by liaising with other HCP's such as GPs and practice nurses.

  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.

  Person Specification

  Professional registration

  Essential

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

  Experience

  Essential

  • Significant experience as a primary care Pharmacy Technician
  • Experience of prescribing data analysis
  • Experience in project management, and/or supporting change management processes

  Competencies

  Essential

  • Ability to create and navigate spreadsheets using Excel.
  • Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks

  Person Specification

  Professional registration

  Essential

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

  Experience

  Essential

  • Significant experience as a primary care Pharmacy Technician
  • Experience of prescribing data analysis
  • Experience in project management, and/or supporting change management processes

  Competencies

  Essential

  • Ability to create and navigate spreadsheets using Excel.
  • Skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks

  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

  Townside Primary Care Centre

  1 Knowsley Street

  Bury

  BL90SN

  
  

  Employer's website

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

  Employer details

  Employer name

  NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care

  Address

  Townside Primary Care Centre

  1 Knowsley Street

  Bury

  BL90SN

  
  

  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.

Notice