Place Based MO Pharmacist

NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A national health organization is seeking a Pharmacist to join their Medicines Optimisation Team in Manchester. You will provide expert advice on pharmaceutical matters, ensure effective and safe medicines optimisation within GP practices, and collaborate with various teams to promote evidence-based prescribing. Candidates must possess Pharmacist Registration and relevant qualifications. This role offers the opportunity to significantly impact patient health outcomes and address health inequalities.

Qualifications

• Pharmacist registration required.
• Knowledge of prescribing/PCA data and optimisation.
• Completion of CPPE Primary Care Pathway Course preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice on pharmaceutical matters.
• Communicate prescribing issues to healthcare professionals.
• Support development of SOPs for the medicines optimisation team.
• Analyse prescribing data to prioritize areas of work.

Skills

Pharmaceutical expertise

Influencing skills

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Education

Pharmacist Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Non-medical Prescribing Qualification

Tools

ePACT

GP practice systems

Job description

Medicines Optimisation Function in NHS Greater Manchester

The medicines optimisation function plays an integral role in shaping the future of health and social care by embedding the use of evidence-based, high quality, safe and cost-effective medicines and medical devices across the Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership (GMICP). The function reports to the Medical Directorate and Clinical and Care Professional Leadership (CCPL) which leads the clinical planning and delivery of the GMICP strategy.

The function delivers against 6 defined pillars (medicines commissioning, medicines finance, medicines safety and quality, medicines across the system, practice-based pharmacy and CCPL) and is distributed across 10 Place-Based Partnerships and coordinated through a strategic function.

Medicines Optimisation Team at Place

The Medicines Optimisation team will jointly report to the Chief Pharmacist and the CCPL and Deputy Place- Based Lead at Place. The team will contribute to the development of the NHS GM medicines optimisation agenda, and successfully deliver this and the function across the Place-based partnership, with a key focus on population health management, addressing health inequalities and creating a financial sustainable system.

Post location is: Tameside locality within Greater Manchester ICB - Travel between GP practices will/maybe required

Main duties of the job

Liaise with teams across the function and support the development of medicines optimisation plans to ensure safe and effective medicines optimisation services are offered to patients.

Deliver the medicines optimisation plan to ensure safe and effective medicines optimisation service is offered to patients within assigned GP practices across a Cluster.

Build strong relationships with GP practices and other prescribers to facilitate delivery of prescribing priorities. In particular, continue to develop and support practice prescribing leads as conduit for influencing prescribing behaviour in practices.

Provide pharmaceutical expertise to promote and embed evidence-based, high quality, safe and cost-effective prescribing to improve patient outcomes and maintain a financial sustainable system.

Support prescribers to manage their prescribing within the prescribing budget and support Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technicians on joint projects and initiatives to promote awareness medicines optimisation issues

Participate in relevant internal and external working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise as directed by your Place-based medicines optimisation team.

Support the coordination of training & development and recruitment activity across the Place-based medicines optimisation team and wider medicines optimisation function.

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 -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.

Job responsibilities

Provide expert advice on pharmaceutical matters including medicines related queries, cost-effective prescribing, medicines legislation and professional ethics.

Communicate sensitive/contentious and occasionally highly complex medicine related information and advice to GPs, other members of the primary health and social care teams, patients and carers.

Communicate prescribing issues to relevant healthcare professionals within the practice team often using influencing/negotiating skills with prescribers to promote evidence based, quality prescribing.

Hold the ability to respond at a variety of different levels to patients, clinicians and the wider healthcare team on matters relating to prescribing, medication and medicine use

Provide high quality patient education on medicine use. This includes formal presentations to large patient groups and Patient and Public Advisory Group (PPAG) as well as individualised information and medication adherence interventions

Create and deliver presentations to a varied group of internal and external stakeholders.

Support the development of standard operating procedures, policies, guidelines for use by the medicines optimisation team.

Use appropriate analysis of prescribing data (ePACT) and knowledge of individual practices to prioritise areas of prescribing that require work.

Ensure that effective and relevant analytical information is provided to prescribers to support quality, safety and cost-effective prescribing decisions.

Person Specification

Professional registration

• Pharmacist Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Non-medical Prescribing Qualification

Knowledge

• Knowledge of prescribing/primary care data including ePACT and GP practice systems
• Excellent understanding of medicines optimisation
• Ability to influence change
• Completion of CPPE Primary Care Pathway Course (PCPEP)

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.