Band 5
Main area Medicines Optimisation Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Home or remote working
37.5 hours per week (NHS GM operate a Hybrid working.) Job ref 896-MED-1050-C
Site Manchester & Salford localities Town Manchester Salary £29,970 - £36,483 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 27/07/2025 23:59
Job overview
Manchester Locality - Pharmacy Technician
Previous applicants need not apply
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 provide technical assistance, working within GP practices to implement and maintain high-quality, cost-effective changes in prescribing patterns and trends and reducing medicines-related risks to patients.
To act as one of the medicines optimisation link persons for specified GP practices to implement medicines optimisation initiatives in line with the primary care, and medicines optimisation priorities.
To undertake prescribing audits and work within Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and support the development of repeat prescribing systems within GP practices as directed by line manager.
Support with the management of Medicines Information enquiries within GP Practice, social care settings or as part of a medicine’s information service.
Process repeat prescriptions for practices.
Complete the reconciliation of medicines detailed in patient medical documents.
Using prescribing data, information, knowledge and technology to contribute to the management of the prescribing budget and improve, inform and support a portfolio of Medicines Optimisation projects, services, and initiatives.
Working across NHS GM or a designated locality on joint workstreams and initiatives and promoting awareness of Medicines Optimisation issues.
Main duties of the job
To identify implement and deliver on Medicines Optimisation and primary care quality and QIPP objectives.
To work on GP practice-based, prescribing, primary care initiatives and standards, to enable practices to achieve targets whilst optimising medicines optimisation.
To build and maintain strong relationships and be a key member of teams outside of own organisation
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.
o develop, implement and complete clinical and non-clinic audits to support Medicines Optimisation objectives and improve prescribing quality.
To contribute to the development and implement Standard Operation Procedures, guidelines, policies & protocols for own locality.
To provide information, advice and query answering in relation to general medicines management issues
To carry out medication optimisation reviews in a domiciliary, care home or clinic setting meet with vulnerable patients and carers referred by other healthcare or social care professionals or identified during audit.
Working for our organisation
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 –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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Communicate complex and sensitive financial information to prescribers and practice managers about their performance against budgets, standards and targets.
Support & contribute to the development and of internal and external communications, such as prescribing alerts by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and Communications team.
Demonstrate advanced computer skills using a range of Microsoft (MS) applications, including but not exclusive to Word, Excel, Outlook, MS Teams and PowerPoint.
Regularly use advanced computer skills to utilise GP clinical systems to gather, analyse and interpret patient related prescribing and clinical data. To supplement this with information from patient's Lloyd George paper records if needed, in order to undertake clinical audits arising from the primary care, Medicines Optimisation work streams and priority areas in line with current local and national guidelines. Requires the ability to identify errors and/or near misses as well as identifying opportunities for optimisation of medicines.
Review, develop, implement and audit practice repeat prescribing systems. Monitor standards and give support where needed e.g. supporting projects within GP surgeries to implement patient led ordering.
Manage own work plans for individual GP practices to ensure accurate delivery of areas of the Medicines Optimisation work programme
Person specification
PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION
* Registration as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Experience
* Extensive, post qualification experience as a hospital, primary care or community Pharmacy Technician.
Knowledge
* Working knowledge of Medicines Optimisation and Cost Improvement Programmes
* Excellent IT skills including knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Word, Excel and PowerPoint
* Ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate issues, and recommend and appropriate course of action.
* Ability to create and navigate spreadsheets using Excel.
Please note this vacancy may close early after a sufficient number of applications have been received.
Please also note that if you are short listed for interview you will be contacted via email and it is important that you check your email regularly. If you do not hear from us by four weeks after the closing date then you may assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.
As a fair collection notice for all NHS employees previous service details will be requested electronically from their previous employer.
The successful candidate will be subject to the completion of satisfactory probationary period.
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In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we have implemented a Privacy Notice to inform you, as prospective employees of the organisation of the types of data we process about you.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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