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Senior Pharmacy Technician - Interface and Pathways - Band 6
| Posting date: | 13 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | £35,392.00 to £42,618.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £35392.00 - £42618.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 June 2024 |
| Location: | Basildon, SS14 3HG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | D9708-MSE369 |
Summary
ROLE PURPOSE / SUMMARY The Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System will comprise the Integrated Care Board (ICB), which is the statutory body for the NHS, and the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), which is a committee of the ICB, and brings together key health, care, community and voluntary sector organisations across the area. The ICS has a bold ambition to deliver improved outcomes for our 1.2m population through our four Alliances, and we are placing clinical and professional leadership and the voice of our residents at the heart of realizing this ambition. Pharmacy and medicines optimisation (PMO) sits within the Clinical Leadership and Innovation Directorate. The Clinical Leadership and Innovation Directorate is charged with putting clinical and multi-professional leadership at the heart of our system. This means that our health and care performance benefits from the active support and participation of staff within the ICS as part of their day-to-day work. The Directorate will support the system by preparing the ground for the adoption of a Stewardship Approach as well as managing the transition including ongoing pathway development, specialist commissioning activities and change-making within current BAU activity. It will then transform our system by managing our health and care resources through the formation of and delivery by stewardship groups. At the same time, it will ensure the safe and effective use of medicines and optimize medicines use to improve health outcomes and the quality of care. It will do this by leading the strategic transformation of medicines optimization work and ensuring the ICB undertakes all its statutory duties in relation to medications. It will also lead on integration, commissioning and contracting, development clinical community pharmacy services and the development of systems and processes to provide quality and patient safety assurance for use of medicines in commissioned services. The post-holder will deliver medicines optimisation to ensure cost-effective, safe medicines use, enabling the best possible health gains for patients. This will be achieved through supporting the development and maintenance of the joint ICS formulary and treatment pathways. The post holder will look to support the development of local prescribing guidelines with patient focused personalized care and embed shared decision making into clinical pathways to reduce inequalities. COMPETENCY BASED KEY DELIVERABLES Management of a small number of staff Contribute to the delivery of one or more strategic plans, enabling key milestones to be delivered and raising any issues associated with the delivery of plans and workstreams. Responsible for monitoring budget/s, contributing to budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes Responsible for decisions made during the course of their duties, seeking guidance and escalating issues where appropriate Provide technical support to the Alliance Lead and Medicines Clinical Interface Lead in developing, implementing and delivering a monitoring strategy to manage expenditure on tariff excluded high cost drugs (HCDs) and medical devices Provide technical support to the Alliance Lead and Medicines Clinical Lead in the annual Horizon Scanning process Provide technical support with the development of the medicines optimisation strategy implementation and action plans Responsible for management of funding requests for HCDs and medical devices within set timescales in accordance with locally agreed pathways, policies and procedures, taking delegated responsibility to authorise prior approval for high-cost drugs and devices in accordance with local guidance and commissioned pathways Provide advice for HCD related queries and complaints. Document all queries and responses, such that these are readily retrievable for future use, in relation to tariff excluded HCDs Liaise with clinical support and interface pharmacists to resolve queries relating to safe and cost effective use of HCDs Support the development and maintenance of prior approval process (including associated forms) for tariff excluded drugs Reference all advice provided and to seek information in support of policies, formularies and individual funding requests Provide technical support to the system in tracking efficiency and performance metrics, specifically for HCDs. This includes leading on HCD invoice validation process and associated challenges and monitoring the usage of HCDs drugs. Keep up to date with relevant guidance on HCD The post-holder is required to understand and adhere to all local policies and processes.