Project Lead Medicine Optimisation Technician
| Posting date: | 19 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 March 2026 |
| Location: | Manchester, M2 5DB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | I9236-26-0007 |
Summary
Communicate complex and sensitive financial information to prescribers and practice managers about their performance against budgets, standards and targets. Provide complex & sensitive information directly to patients and/or their carers regarding their medication either verbally or in writing via direct text message / letter or via Patient Information Leaflets/posters.Provide complex clinical advice & guidance to prescribers to facilitate clinical discussions such as red/amber/green medications, drugs of low clinical value, antibiotic resistance and management of shared care protocols. Facilitate and lead meetings including where contentious information is to be discussed such as highlighting areas of prescribing concern to teams outside of own profession. Support & contribute to the development of internal and externalcommunications, such as prescribing alerts by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and communications team. Regularly use advanced computer skills to utilise GP clinical systems togather, analyse and interpret patient related prescribing and clinical data. Requires the ability to identify errors and/or near misses as well as identifying opportunities for optimisation of medicines.Regular use of advanced analyses and/or comparison skills to review clinical and financial data in order to develop action plans for individual GP practices, PCNs and locality. Working across NHS GM or a designated locality on joint workstreams and initiatives and promoting awareness of Medicines Optimisation issues. This role will require direct regular travel to GM & stakeholder locations