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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.
Main duties of the job
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 (charlene.murrell@nhs.net) or Jo Piper (jopiper@nhs.net).
Interviews will be held on 16th December 2024.
About us
NHS Sussex ICB is committed to enabling team members to work in an agile and flexible way. We adopt a flexible first approach to working patterns. We empower our people to work where, when, and how they choose with minimum constraints to support their wellbeing to sustain good work-life balance and to optimise performance and delivery.
We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Agile working is not just related to working from different locations or at different times. It is about effectively utilising technology to improve work practices and to work differently to increase our overall effectiveness to improve health outcomes for our population.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please contact the Recruitment Team at scw.peopleresource@nhs.net to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
NHS Sussex has committed to achieving Net Zero Carbon emissions by 2045. As a member of staff, you will be encouraged and supported to implement new ways of working that will help us achieve that goal.
Job responsibilities
The Strategy, Commissioning and Integration Directorate (SCI) has been established to enable NHS Sussex to:
1. Strengthen its approach to strategic commissioning, focusing on outcomes and joining up pathways of care across organisational boundaries.
2. Focus on reducing unwarranted variation in healthcare and address health inequalities.
3. Support the development of integrated community teams (ICT), with system partners including local authorities.
4. 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:
1. Establish a single strategic commissioning function across NHS Sussex, supported by health analytics, evidence-based action and triangulation of feedback.
2. Establish clear line of shared accountability between strategic commissioning, quality, and clinical roles.
3. Standardise unwarranted variation in commissioning practice across the three local authority areas, including primary care commissioned services.
4. Strengthen focus on the deliverables within contracts, including the NHS Standard contract.
5. Strengthen the strategic leadership role of NHS Sussex.
6. 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:
1. Improve population health and outcomes from medicines.
2. Ensure we get the best value from medicines use.
3. Ensure safer use of medicines.
4. Help people to live healthier lives.
5. 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:
1. To support delivery of the medicines optimisation strategy for the population health needs through audits and focused projects.
2. Ensure clinical and cost-effective prescribing including promoting the use of clinical decision support tools i.e. OptimiseRx.
3. 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.
4. 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.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of relevant clinical subject matter.
* Experience of managing aspects of clinical management ensuring they meet financial targets.
* Basic understanding of principles of clinical audit.
* Knowledge of Medicines Optimisation, including relevant legislation and policies.
* Understanding of medicines optimisation, at system and patient levels.
Skills and Capabilities
* Skills for communication on complex information requiring developed interpersonal and oral/written communication skills.
* Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letters. Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills.
* Problem-solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
* Excellent time management skills with the ability to re-prioritise.
* Skills for manipulating information.
* Standard keyboard skills, use of a range of software.
Other
* Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales.
* Must be able to travel within Sussex, and neighbouring areas if required.
Qualifications
* BTEC / City & Guilds in Pharmaceutical Science.
* NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent.
* Registered pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Knowledge of administrative procedures, project management or information analysis.
* Previously worked in a similar position within the public sector.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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