Head of Medicines Optimisation - Swinton, United Kingdom - NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care

NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care
NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care
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Swinton, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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The post holder will lead the provision of an efficient, effective and high quality professional and well-co-ordinated medicines optimisation service capable of meeting all statutory, regulatory and NHS requirements ensuring alignment with the activity of the locality.

The postholder will provide professional leadership and Pharmaceutical Advice to local clinicians, oversee the performance management of primary care prescribing (including high dose-controlled drugs) throughout the locality and provide professional advice and performance manage quality aspects of primary care prescribing.

The post holder will provide professional leadership and pharmaceutical advice and oversee the performance management of prescribing throughout the organisation.

The post holder will line manage the Medicines Optimisation Team which form part of the Clinical Leadership and System Integration Directorate.

Main duties of the job

  • Be accountable for the delivery of the Salford locality annual quality and cost improvement plan. These will be enabled through close working relationship with GP member practices in association with the clinical lead for Medicines Optimisation
  • Management and leadership of the Medicines Optimisation team working closely with all other Salford locality teams and the clinical lead for Medicines Optimisation.
  • Ensure delivery of the Medicines Optimisation elements of the Salford standard in conjunction with other Commissioning Managers.
  • Oversight and management of the primary care prescribing budgets.
  • Ensuring information is properly managed and best practice is shared across the team, the locality and the wider NHS organisations.
  • Represent Salford locality at various interface groups across the health economy to ensure engagement with regard to new drug introductions, shared care responsibilities, joint formularies, therapeutic guidelines, antimicrobial stewardship.
Working for our organisation


This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and forward thinking team that is developing new and innovative ways of working to provide the best possible care for the population.

Greater Manchester Integrated Care System (ICS)

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

If you have the right skills and qualities, we can provide personal development and support for you.

The role is NHS Greater Manchester Integrated Care in the Salford Locality

The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, leading a high performing locality medicine optimisation team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians

Person specification

Professional Registration and Qualification

Essential criteria

  • Pharmacy Degree and Current GPhC Registration
  • Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Experience

Essential criteria

  • Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
  • Persuade board and senior managers of the respective merits of different options, innovation and new opportunities.
  • Negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues
  • Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands. Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options. Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action. Strategic thinking ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
  • Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
  • Manages team within the constraints of NHS strategic plan. Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary. Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
Knowledge

Essential criteria

  • Specialist knowledge and expertise across many clinical areas gained through training & experience
  • Knowledge of ePACT and GP practice systems
  • Skills for direct line management and job management.
  • Skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility.
  • Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders
Desirable criteria

  • Understanding of the wider public sector (e.g., Local Authority)
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