Practice Pharmacy Technician

Oakwood Medical Centre

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Job summary

We are a GP Practice based in the Barnton area of Northwich (Cheshire) looking to appoint a Pharmacy Technician to our expanding team.

Working alongside our Practice Pharmacist and GP Partners, the Pharmacy Technician will undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared-decision making conversations with patients.

You will support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance, assisting in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits.

You will take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols as well as being part of our wider admin team in relation to prescribing administration.

You're welcome to contact us to discuss the role with our Practice Pharmacist or the Practice Management Team - please do call in and see what it is all about.

Main duties of the job

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

Support 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.

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.

Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.

Supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services.

Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems across PCNs, supporting practices with a range of services to get the best value from medicines.

Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).

Develop Practice SOPs and Guidelines under the instruction and support of the Practice Pharmacist and Lead GP.

About us

We are a hugely supportive and friendly practice, and we encourage all our staff to develop their own goals for a rewarding workplace.

Staffing-wise we have a wide variety within our team:

4 GP Partners, 2 Practice Nurses, a Healthcare Assistant, a Practice Pharmacist, a Senior care Coordinator, a Shared Social Prescriber (across all Northwich PCN), an Office Manager, a Senior Administrator, a Practice Manager and 9 administrators with various specialities (secretarial, prescribing admin, clerical, business and finance).

We can offer a competitive salary, generous holiday allowances, and training and development opportunities, both in-house and externally.

We enjoy close links with other local practices through Northwich Primary Care Network (PCN) and lead on the Northwich Care Communities Project, linking in closely with other service providers, such as CWP, CCICP, local Schools, Town Council etc.

We take our responsibility to our patients extremely seriously but ensure our staff are supported at all times.

Date posted

20 October 2022

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

A0547-22-2560

Job locations

Broadway

Barnton

Northwich

Cheshire

CW8 4LF


Job description

Job responsibilities

OAKWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE

JOB TITLE: PHARMACY TECHNICIAN

REPORTS TO: CLINICAL PHARMACIST (CLINICALLY)

PRACTICE MANAGER (OPERATIONALLY)

Role Purpose

Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice is part of an exciting programme of transformation to develop a new model of care. This will utilise the role of pharmacy within primary care to help reduce the demands on general practice and to pro-actively help patients stay safe, well and out of hospital.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared-decision making conversations with patients.

2. 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

3, Support 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.

4. 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.

5. Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients

6. Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.

7. Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits.

8. 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.

9. Work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage.

10. Support the admin team in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.

11. Review patient workflow as appropriate and action as required, following local and Practice guidelines. Arranging blood tests, follow ups, appointments and reviews, including appropriate coding where necessary.

12. Being a point of contact for community/hospital pharmacy queries and updates

13. 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, and timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines, and electronic repeat dispensing optimisation.

14. Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).

15. 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.

16. Deputise for the Practice Pharmacist and/or Lead GP in attending meetings and feeding back relevant information and actions for the Practice.

17. Develop Practice SOPs and Guidelines under the instruction and support of the Practice Pharmacist and Lead GP.

Job description

Job responsibilities

OAKWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE

JOB TITLE: PHARMACY TECHNICIAN

REPORTS TO: CLINICAL PHARMACIST (CLINICALLY)

PRACTICE MANAGER (OPERATIONALLY)

Role Purpose

Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice is part of an exciting programme of transformation to develop a new model of care. This will utilise the role of pharmacy within primary care to help reduce the demands on general practice and to pro-actively help patients stay safe, well and out of hospital.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared-decision making conversations with patients.

2. 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

3, Support 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.

4. 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.

5. Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients

6. Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.

7. Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits.

8. 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.

9. Work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage.

10. Support the admin team in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.

11. Review patient workflow as appropriate and action as required, following local and Practice guidelines. Arranging blood tests, follow ups, appointments and reviews, including appropriate coding where necessary.

12. Being a point of contact for community/hospital pharmacy queries and updates

13. 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, and timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines, and electronic repeat dispensing optimisation.

14. Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).

15. 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.

16. Deputise for the Practice Pharmacist and/or Lead GP in attending meetings and feeding back relevant information and actions for the Practice.

17. Develop Practice SOPs and Guidelines under the instruction and support of the Practice Pharmacist and Lead GP.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Science
  • Professional Registration with the GPhC
  • CPPE and NHS England Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway or a willingness to work towards within an agreed timeframe

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working as a Pharmacy Technician

Desirable

  • Experience of working within the NHS/GP Practice
  • Experience of data collection/analysis
  • Experience of liaising with a wide range of healthcare professionals
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Science
  • Professional Registration with the GPhC
  • CPPE and NHS England Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway or a willingness to work towards within an agreed timeframe

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working as a Pharmacy Technician

Desirable

  • Experience of working within the NHS/GP Practice
  • Experience of data collection/analysis
  • Experience of liaising with a wide range of healthcare professionals

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Oakwood Medical Centre

Address

Broadway

Barnton

Northwich

Cheshire

CW8 4LF


Employer's website

https://www.oakwoodmedicalcentrebarnton.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Oakwood Medical Centre

Address

Broadway

Barnton

Northwich

Cheshire

CW8 4LF


Employer's website

https://www.oakwoodmedicalcentrebarnton.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Practice Manager

Laura Clare

lclare@nhs.net

01606544261

Date posted

20 October 2022

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working

Reference number

A0547-22-2560

Job locations

Broadway

Barnton

Northwich

Cheshire

CW8 4LF


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