Project lead medicines optimisation pharmacy technician

NHS; Chichester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization seeks a Project Lead Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician to enhance prescribing and medication management across Greater Manchester. This role involves leading multiple projects, providing clinical advice, and supporting pharmacy technicians. The ideal candidate will possess advanced analytical skills and a strong background in pharmacy, contributing to improved patient care and medication optimization.

Qualifications

• Advanced skills to explain prescribing and financial data.
• Experience in leading project management efforts.
• Ability to communicate complex medication-related information.

Responsibilities

• Lead project management for clinical and non-clinical workstreams.
• Provide clinical advice on medication appropriateness.
• Conduct medication reviews in care homes and GP surgeries.

Skills

Advanced data analysis

Project management

Communication

Leadership

Education

Pharmacy Technician qualification

Tools

BI portals (ePACT2, GM Tableau)

Job description

Project lead medicines optimisation pharmacy technician

To promote and facilitate safe, effective, high-quality, and cost-effective prescribing and medication management within the local area and across Greater Manchester.

To lead project management efforts on various clinical and non-clinical workstreams, both locally and GM-wide, managing multiple projects simultaneously.

To oversee technical input as part of the Medicines Optimisation Team, working within GP practices and the wider community.

To provide leadership and support to Pharmacy Technicians at the same or lower bands within the locality and across Greater Manchester.

To assist with the daily management of the Pharmacy Technician team locally as needed.

Main duties of the job

• Identify, implement, and deliver Medicines Optimisation and primary care quality and QIPP objectives.
• Influence prescribing habits of prescribers in primary and secondary care.
• Support local and GM Medicines Optimisation teams to plan, manage, and effectively implement work programmes, strategies, and priorities.
• Work on GP practice-based prescribing and primary care initiatives to help practices meet targets while optimizing medicines use.
• Build and maintain strong relationships, being a key team member beyond your organisation.
• Support local authorities in improving and assuring medicines optimisation in care homes and for patients receiving care at home.
• Regularly produce, analyse, interpret, and present financial and clinical prescribing data to target support and monitor targets.
• Possess advanced skills to explain prescribing, financial, and quality data to prescribers, making sound recommendations for corrective actions and influencing prescribing patterns.
• Lead project management for your own projects and some GM-wide projects.
• Develop, implement, and complete clinical and non-clinical audits.
• Create and implement Standard Operating Procedures, guidelines, policies, and protocols for your locality and GM-wide use.

About us

NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care

Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) are partnerships of health and care organisations working together to plan and deliver integrated services, aiming to improve population health and healthcare outcomes, reduce inequalities, enhance productivity, and support broader social and economic development. This will be achieved at neighbourhood, place, and system levels.

Our NHS People Promise commits us to work together to improve the NHS work experience for everyone. NHS GM recognises unwarranted inequalities in the workforce, especially concerning minoritised ethnic, female, and disabled staff, and will implement positive action measures to foster a diverse, talented, and skilled workforce.

Job responsibilities

• Communicate complex financial information to prescribers and practice managers regarding performance against budgets, standards, and targets.
• Provide complex and sensitive medication-related information to patients or carers verbally or in writing.
• Offer clinical advice and guidance to prescribers on topics such as medication appropriateness, antibiotic resistance, and shared care protocols.
• Lead and facilitate meetings, including discussions on contentious prescribing issues.
• Support and contribute to internal and external communications, including prescribing alerts.
• Utilize advanced computer skills to gather, analyse, and interpret prescribing and clinical data from GP systems, identifying errors and opportunities for optimisation.
• Use advanced analysis tools like BI portals (ePACT2, GM Tableau) to generate prescribing insights.
• Review, develop, implement, and audit practice repeat prescribing systems and support projects to improve medication ordering processes.
• Contribute to strategic planning for the upcoming financial year within the locality.
• Organise medication reviews in care homes and home care settings, developing complex action plans for medicines optimisation.
• Conduct detailed medication reviews at GP surgeries, patients' homes, and care homes, providing face-to-face advice and liaising with other healthcare professionals.
• Provide specialist advice on complex medication topics, including covert medication, best interest decisions, PEG administration, contraception during antiepileptic treatment, addiction, and palliative care medications.