Please see the attached Job Description for more details including the person specification. The main duties of the role are: 1. Work locally at place, across the wider ICB Medicines Optimisation team, other ICB teams and directorates and across the system to contribute to the implementation of Medicines Optimisation plans and priorities to meet the objectives of the ICB Medicines Optimisation Strategy, associated plans, and medicines value, safety and quality. 2. Contribute to the development and implementation of Medicines Optimisation policies, procedures and services, to improve the pharmaceutical care of patients and monitor the safe and secure handling of medicines throughout the ICB. 3. Contribute to the publication of ICB newsletters, prescribing bulletins and guidelines. 4. Assist in the implementation of local Lancashire and South Cumbria pathways guidance and formulary and national evidence-based prescribing guidelines that support quality and medicines value. 5. Assist in the implementation of national strategies that pertain to medicine use and medicine-related aspects of primary care contracts. 6. Support audit of prescribing and medicine use across the locality place and the ICB. 7. Analyse data (e.g. e-PACT and population health) to support changes in prescribing patterns, Medicines Optimisation, improved patient outcomes, and services. 8. Review and support the development of systems used for managing prescribing within the primary care setting, including Eclipse, OptimiseRx and repeat prescribing and supporting the implementation of change where appropriate. 9. Advise on the safe and secure handling of medicines in primary care, including the use of controlled drugs, to ensure that relevant medicines management standards are met. 10. Support the investigation of performance issues relating to Medicines Optimisation. 11. Support the integration of Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy across the system. 12. Develop or collaborate in research and audit programmes to review aspects of prescribing or pharmaceutical service provision. 13. Support projects across the ICB and system, working with the Medicines Optimisation teams in other localities as needed. 14. Support projects in the locality where there is a need specific to the locality considering if the need is applicable to other localities.