Senior Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist

Transformationunitgm; Bolton; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent role at NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care is available for a Band 8a Pharmacist. This position involves leading the Medicines Optimisation team, providing critical advisory services on prescribing, and ensuring effective implementation of medication policies. The successful candidate will significantly impact patient outcomes and enhance care quality across a network of services.

Qualifications

• Pharmacist registration with General Pharmaceutical Council is mandatory.
• Significant primary care experience required.
• Experience leading successful implementation of change essential.

Responsibilities

• Advise and support staff on medicines optimisation issues.
• Negotiate changes in prescribing behaviour.
• Develop initiatives to manage the ICB prescribing budget.

Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Negotiating Skills

Analytical Skills

Education

Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy

Job description

Band 8a

Job overview

The post holder will be responsible for the provision of expert pharmaceutical,
prescribing and medicines optimisation advice to all relevant stakeholders to ensure
implementation of the medicines optimisation agenda.
They will promote evidence based, safe, cost effective prescribing, to deliver improved
patient outcomes, and reduced health inequalities which will be achieved by effective
working between secondary, intermediate, primary, community and social care
services.
To provide clinical support and leadership within the Medicines Optimisation team and
support the implementation and delivery of medicines optimisation initiatives and
national and local guidance.

Main duties of the job

Be responsible for advising and supporting staff on medicines optimisation issues.

Negotiating changes in prescribing behaviour and influencing opinions on prescribing issues.

Develop and implement initiatives to support the management of the ICB prescribing budget and to improve the quality of prescribing across NHS GM.

Contributing to short, medium and long term business plans, achieving quality outcomes.

Forge close positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, to support an effective matrix approach to achieve NHS GM medicines optimisation objectives on a range of business sensitive issues.

Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with NHS staff and providers working on a variety of topics, addressing interdependencies and ensuring alignment.

Contribute to the planning of team projects, identifying interdependencies across projects/functions, potential impacts on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary. Collate, qualitative and
quantitative information and lead appropriate analysis to develop robust business cases and contribute to project ‘products’.

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, including a 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

Present complex information about projects, initiatives and services to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting, persuading others and negotiating change in prescribing habits.

To communicate and negotiate with provider organisations e.g. acute trust, community service, mental health and GMMMG in the production of clinical guidelines, shared care protocols, formulary drugs etc. to assure clinical relevance and accuracy of these documents.

Link with managers and members of other functions, to address inter-dependencies and ensure alignment.

Review and analyse prescribing data and drug budget information at Practice, Locality and GM level to support the Head of Medicines Optimisation and Chief Pharmacist in the management of budgets relating to prescribing and the provision of pharmaceutical services. Drug budget information is complex and specialist analytical and clinical skills are required.

Prepare reports/briefings summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and providing progress reports for the Head of Medicines Optimisation, Steering/Reference Groups and others as required.

Develop, implement and monitor policies, guidelines and protocols to ensure the safe, evidence based, cost effective use of medicines in line with local priorities, national directives, medicines legislation and professional ethics.

Collate qualitative and quantitative information and lead appropriate analysis developing robust business cases and ensuring delivery of project ‘products’.

Person specification

Professional registration

• Pharmacist registration with General Pharmaceutical Council

Qualifications

• Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or equivalent experience

Experience

• Significant post-registration primary care experience
• Experience of leading successful implementation of change

Knowledge

• Advanced understanding of prescribing information including ePACT data and general practitioner computer systems
• Excellent inter-personal, influencing and negotiating skills with evidence of gaining acceptance for recommendations

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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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.