Prescribing Support Technician - Band 5

To help develop and support the implementation of a wide range of medicine optimisation strategies across North East Essex and SNEE to: o improve health outcomes; o reduce avoidable harm; o avoid waste To support system wide integration, working with wider health and care professionals to ensure that medicines practice in health and care delivery settings are joined up. To improve the health of the population by optimising the use of medicines through: o promoting the safe, evidence-based and cost-effective use of medicines; o providing up to date, unbiased information about medicines, treatments and care pathways; o supporting practitioners and patients to make the best use of medicines; o minimising the harm caused by medicines; o supporting the development of local guidelines and care pathways to optimise the use of medicines; o supporting other health and care providers to deliver medicines optimisation in a way that is high quality, safe, timely, effective and equitable. The
post-holder will work within organisational policy and professional/ethical guidelines and without supervision. The post-holder will support ongoing improvement across all areas of Medicines Optimisation and will facilitate the implementation of change in their areas of responsibility. The post-holder will act independently, identifying the need for, developing, and initiating programmes of work aligned to their own portfolio and/or organisational priorities. Their work will be partly self-directed.