pharmacy technician Berrow, England
Job description
- NB: please apply with your CV and a detailed covering letter.
North Sedgemoor Primary Care Network
JOB DESCRIPTION – Pharmacy Technician
Pharmacy Technician Salary:
Hours of Work: 37.5 hours
Primary Care Network: North Sedgemoor Primary Care Network.
Employer Axbridge & Wedmore Medical Practice
Accountable To: North Sedgemoor Lead Pharmacy
Technician &
North Sedgemoor PCN Manager
JOB SUMMARY
Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice is part of an exciting programme of transformation to develop a new model of care which addresses our ambition to deliver person-centred, coordinated care across the district. The Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice model is supported by the direction of national policy including the Five Year Forward View and GP
Forward View where there is a need to better utilise the role of pharmacy within primary care to pro-actively help patients stay safe and well and out of hospital as well as helping to reduce the demands on general practice.
Pharmacy technicians play an important role, complementing clinical pharmacists, community pharmacists and other members of the PCN multi- disciplinary team.
Pharmacy technicians’ core role responsibilities will cover clinical, and technical and administrative categories.
The purpose of the role is to support improvements to maximise safe, cost-effective best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care. The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practice, including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.
In addition, the post holder will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments. This will involve assisting the
PCN in achieving national requirements, NICE implementation and utilisation of medicines optimisation initiatives.
The post-holder will support and assist activities in all the surgeries within the North
Sedgemoor Primary Care Network to help patients to get the best from their medicines by supporting systems to improve the continuity of care, handling of prescription queries from patients and health care professionals and supporting medication management in care homes . They will also participate in medication audits, quality improvement projects and monitoring of high-risk drugs to ensure ongoing patient safety and high-quality prescribing.
This post is funded by NHS England and will include a requirement to participate in the national CPPE training scheme for pharmacy technicians in general practice (unless already completed).
Clinical responsibilities of the Pharmacy Technician: a. undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared-decision making conversations with patients; b. carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews, and medicines reconciliation.
Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively; c. support, as determined by the PCN, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking with local community pharmacists. d. 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; e. take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients; f. support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing; g. assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits; h. support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, 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;
echnical and Administrative responsibilities of the Pharmacy Technician: a. work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation including implementing efficient ordering and return processes and reducing wastage; b. supervise practice reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests; c. provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems across PCNs supporting practices with a range of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and implementing Electronic Prescriptions safe repeat prescribing systems
Qualifications:
Essential:
- BTech/NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Pharmaceutical sciences.
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Completed or be on the CPPE Primary Care Pathway (or be willing to enrol).
Desirable:
- Accredited Medicines Management Technician
- Member of APTUK
Experience:
Essential:
- Practical experience of working as pharmacy technician in primary care, community or secondary care setting
- Experience of providing pharmaceutical and prescribing advice
- Practical experience of computerised systems
- Experience of prescriptions processes and systems
- Working as part of a team
- Ability to work independently, and plan and organise own movements to deliver agreed work within an agreed time frame.
Desirable:
- Experience of systems to support patients in Primary Care setting
- Good clinical pharmacy knowledge
- Experience of project implementation
- Working in Multidisciplinary Teams
Personal Qualities:
Essential:
- Attention to detail
- Good communication skills, written and oral
- IT and Keyboard skills
- Ability to follow procedures and work to deadlines
- Ability to handle situations of potential conflict
- Problem solving skills
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Influencing and negotiating skills
- Ability to plan and organise
Other:
- Able to travel between sites when required
NB: please apply with your CV and a detailed covering letter.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Salary: From £27,055.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Berrow, TA8 2JU: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person
