Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy TechnicianinLewesinLewesPUBLISHED WED 13 NOV 2024

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Are you a registered Pharmacy Technician looking to develop your career? We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic and self-motivated Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly and innovative team. The Sussex ICB Medicines Optimisation Team (MOT) promotes high quality, safe and cost-effective prescribing. We are ambitious, forward thinking and strive to ensure that the patient is always at the heart of everything we do. We adopt a flexible approach to working patterns, offering a mix of practice-based, remote and office working to empower team members to optimise their performance and deliver.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our MOT. The roles are based within the East and West Sussex area, please indicate in the application your preferred area to work which will be taken into consideration.

Applicants must have an NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent Pharmacy Technician qualification and be Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacy Technician.

Main duties of the job Supporting the Medicines Optimisation team to address health inequalities that exist across our population to achieve greater outcomes and reduce variation. Utilise data analysis and project support to guide prioritisation of the medicines optimisation strategy and promote clinical and cost- effective prescribing.

The successful applicants will provide remote and practical hands-on support, building professional, trusted relationships with practice and PCN teams to ensure effective communication on issues relating to prescribing and population health needs.

For questions about the job, contact Charlene Murrell ) or Jo Piper )

Interviews will be held on 16th December 2024.

About us

The Strategy, Commissioning and Integration Directorate (SCI) has been established to enable NHS Sussex to:

Strengthen its approach to strategic commissioning, focusing on outcomes and joining up pathways of care across organisational boundaries.

Focus on reducing unwarranted variation in healthcare and address health inequalities.

Support the development of integrated community teams (ICT), with system partners including local authorities.

Support the strategic development of the system to enable the establishment of clinically led provider collaboratives to improve pathways, deliver service transformation and deliver best value within available resources. The following changes are key to implement new ways of working to deliver the aims above:

Establish a single strategic commissioning function across NHS Sussex, supported by health analytics, evidence-based action and triangulation of feedback

Establish clear line of shared accountability between strategic commissioning, quality, and clinical roles

Standardise unwarranted variation in commissioning practice across the three local authority areas, including primary care commissioned services

Strengthen focus on the deliverables within contracts, including the NHS Standard contract

Strengthen the strategic leadership role of NHS Sussex

Create a stronger infrastructure for delivery, with a clear focus on delivering improvement.

All staffing bands will work across Sussex to support increased strategic commissioning and a consistent approach to deliver our Improving Lives Together Strategy, with a focus on Place where required to deliver local change

The directorate will work in a matrix manner across teams to ensure delivery using an MDT approach The following principles apply across all postholders within the directorate:

The Postholder will be expected to actively engage and participate in cross-functional collaboration within the SCI Directorate, recognising the interconnectedness of the strategic and joint commissioning and transformation portfolios. This includes sharing knowledge, insights, and best practice across the areas of MHLDA, Acute, Urgent, Community and Primary Care and working jointly with Strategy, and place based Joint commissioning & Integration functions. The Postholder will share their subject matter expertise/skills, working strategically with other postholders, supporting and embedding integration and new ways of working, enabling collective decision-making and strategy development.

This role covers all ages and would need to work with other team colleagues as well as across directorates to ensure delivery of the expected outcomes.

This role would need to give due regard to the commitments to the Armed Forces This role will need to work collaboratively with other directorates and system partners to identify and lead the implementation of opportunities emerging from the delegation of specialised commissioning functions. NHS Sussex is developing a medicines optimisation strategy that will set out our ambition to:

Improve population health and outcomes from medicines

Ensure we get the best value from medicines use

Ensure safer use of medicines

Help people to live healthier lives

Support our pharmacy and medicines workforce to do the best job they can The post holder will support the Director of the Primary Care Medicines Optimisation to ensure that the Primary care elements of the ICS Medicines Optimisation Strategy are planned and managed effectively and assist in their successful delivery. The key focus of the role will be:

To support delivery of the medicines optimisation strategy for the population health needs through audits and focused projects

Ensure clinical and cost-effective prescribing including promoting the use of clinical decision support tools i.e. OptimiseRx.

To support the Medicines Optimisation team with data analysis and project support to guide prioritisation of the medicines optimisation strategy and promote clinical and cost- effective prescribing in relation to population health outcomes.

Act as a practice supervisor for trainee pharmacy professionals undergoing rotations or placements within the ICB; responsible for supporting their education and day-to-day supervision. The job description is an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role, and the job specification is an outline of the skills, experience and qualities needed. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager. The job description and person specification