Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 5 months (up to 03/01/2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 942-ICB-6401574
- Employer
- NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin Integrated Care Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB
- Town
- Wellington
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 24/07/2024
Employer heading
Lead Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
This is a fixed term post until 03/01/25, applications are welcomed from within the Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin system as well as further afield on a secondment basis.
The post holder will work as a member of the small, friendly Medicines Optimisation Team for NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin (STW ICB) Integrated Care Board . The role will involve project work, supporting the delivery of the medicines value and transformation agenda, focussing on key clinical projects and medicines optimisation priorities for the ICB and wider system. Working alongside the other Lead Pharmacy Technicians and Senior Pharmacists for Medicines Value and Transformation within the team, they will support the Lead Pharmacist for Medicines Value and Transformation in driving forward the ICB’s medicines optimisation strategy and medicines value agenda providing high quality, evidence-based prescribing advice and medicines optimisation support. They will support with the development, implementation and monitoring of projects to optimise medicines use, improve patient outcomes and enhance productivity and value for money for the system and wider NHS, enabling long-term financial sustainability.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will help lead or support delivery of projects and clinical audits to maximise safe, cost-effective best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care; this may also include development of educational events and resources for clinicians and Medicines Management Team members on medicines optimisation and prescribing.
The post holder will need to be confident at delivering presentations and providing clinical information to a wide audience from patients to primary and secondary clinicians.
As this role will largely involve supporting/managing projects, the post holder should also be able to demonstrate excellent clinical, organisational and communication skills together with the ability to influence change for the best possible outcomes for patients.
The post holder will be required to work with external stakeholders including provider colleagues across the Integrated Care System (ICS), patient groups, commissioning support services, national commissioning board, local authority, public health and strategic groups/committees, care providers and the voluntary sector.
The post holder must hold professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a pharmacy technician and have the relevant post qualification experience in primary or secondary care.
Working for our organisation
The NHS is the biggest employer in Europe. It’s a world-renowned institution and an exciting place to work, full of challenges and opportunities. You will be a member of a large, friendly Medicines Management team.
The ICB recognises the need for its workforce to represent the diversity of the population it serves and seeks to create an environment where diversity is celebrated and inclusivity matters. We are also keen to break down any barriers into the NHS, and would encourage applications from under-represented groups, including those from BME communities and disability groups.
In addition to a competitive salary you will also benefit from access to the generous NHS Pension Scheme as well as plenty of NHS exclusive discounts too.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be appointed to NHS Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin ICB. Your base will be the ICB Headquarters in Wellington, Shropshire. NHS STW operates a hybrid working arrangement where you will be required to work from the office base for part of your working week, based on your contracted number of hours. Travel may also be necessary across other sites and clinical settings as appropriate, therefore you must have the ability to meet the travel needs of the post.
Our medicines optimisation team will work with multiple providers across the system, and will be responsible for providing medicines optimisation support to the practices we serve, developing and implementing medicines optimisation projects for implementation within each practice, delivering savings and improving the quality of medicines use.
The post holder will be asked to work as part of the medicines value and transformation part of the medicines management team to support delivery of the national medicines optimisation opportunities and medicines value priorities for the system.
This role will involve project implementation and behavioural change, therefore there will be a requirement to provide education and training to other health professionals, system partners and care settings as required.
The job responsibilities outlined below should be read in conjunction with the full job description included within this advert.
To support the implementation, delivery, and monitoring of medicines optimisation projects to:
o improve health outcomes;
o reduce avoidable harm;
o improve population health and reduce health inequalities
o avoid waste, enhance productivity and value for money promoting sustainability
To provide advice and support on matters relating to medicines optimisation and prescribing
To support NHS STW commitment to commissioning safe and effective services that meet the needs of the local population
To support system wide integration and collaboration on medicines optimisation projects and work streams, working with system pharmacy colleagues and wider health and care professionals to ensure that medicines practice in health and care delivery settings are joined up.
To improve the health of the population by optimising the use of medicines through:
o promoting the safe, evidence-based and cost-effective use of medicines;
o supporting implementation of the shared system formulary
o providing up to date, unbiased information about medicines, treatments and care pathways;
o supporting practitioners and patients to make the best use of medicines;
o to support the implementation of national guidance on the use of medicines (NICE appraisals and quality prescribing targets).
o minimising the harm caused by medicines;
o support the development of local guidelines and resources and care pathways to optimise the use of medicines;
o supporting other health and care providers to deliver medicines optimisation in a way that is high quality, efficient, safe, well led, timely and responsive, effective and equitable.
To support the development, implementation, delivery and reporting of the annual Medicines Optimisation cost improvement programme (CIP), working collaboratively across the ICB to influence and monitor prescribing costs, promote cost effective prescribing and minimise wastage of medicines.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- A minimum of three years post qualification experience involving direct contact with other healthcare professionals, patients and carers
- Significant experience in project management, data analysis or supporting change management processes.
- Experience and understanding of evaluating and measuring prescribing performance.
- Experience in communications and stakeholder management
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical technical procedures for specialist area to degree or equivalent level acquired though training, NVQ3, BTEC in pharmaceutical science or equivalent CPD portfolio maintained and shows robust evidence of high quality CPD
Desirable criteria
- Further qualifications beyond MTO3 or NVQ3 level or complementary to these qualifications
Skills, knowledge and competencies
Essential criteria
- Project management skills and demonstrated ability to lead and manage own projects
- Good knowledge basis of primary care medicines management
- Ability to use Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload without supervision working to tight and often changing timescales
- Ability to analyse and interpret prescribing and clinical information, with the ability to extract key messages from complex analysis and recommend and appropriate course of action within professional limits
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- A good understanding of the legal framework for prescribing and the national NHS medicines optimisation agenda
- Ability to use data systems and prescribing dashboards to monitor prescribing data
Desirable criteria
- Ability to use GP practice clinical systems e.g. EMIS, Vision
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Independent thinker with demonstrated good judgement, problem-solving and analytical skills
- Demonstrated ability to make decisions on difficult and contentious issues where they may be a number of courses of action.
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload without supervision working to tight and often changing timescales
- Demonstrated commitment to CPD
- Effective organiser
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Stallard
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacist Medicines Value and Transformation
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Please contact me via email if you have any questions or would like any further information about the role. If you provide me with your contact details I would be happy to arrange a call to discuss the role and answer any queries you may have.
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