pharmacy technician Tiverton, North West England, England
Job description
The Pharmacy Technician is to undertake the following key responsibilities in delivering health services: Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision making conversations with patients. Conduct medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
Support, mentor and train staff members during their dispensary training. Support, as determined by the practice, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronise medicines for patient transfers between care settings. Provide specialist expertise, where competent, to address both the public health and social care needs of patients including lifestyle advice, service information and help in tackling local health inequalities. Maintain a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaise with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients.
Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing. Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits. Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within the practice, care homes and other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking clinical audits (e.g.
use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services. Attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed. Contribute to public health campaigns (e.g.
COVID-19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care. Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area at all times. The technical and administrative responsibilities of the Pharmacy Technician: Work with the practice multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation including implementing efficient ordering and return processes and reducing wastage. Supervise the practice reception team in sorting and streaming general prescription requests to allow GPs to review the more clinically complex requests.
Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems supporting the practice with a range of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and implementing safe repeat prescribing systems and timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines. Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines. Develop relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the multi-disciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and mental health. Support delivery of QOF, incentive schemes, QIPP and other quality or cost effectiveness initiatives.
Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner. Duties may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels.
