Pharmacy Technician

Job description

Job responsibilities

Role responsibilities

Clinical

To support the clinical work of the Clinical Pharmacists within the PCN

To work with GP practices within the PCN to develop and/or improve repeat medication protocols

Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings

Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation, incentive schemes and patient safety audits

To address the following areas without the need to consult a GP/Pharmacist (although clinical support and advice will always be available if required

Perform consultations with patients such as Medication Queries and New Patient Checks

Addition/removal of medications following receipt of a discharge summary

Effecting medication changes as per secondary care and community clinic letters

Process and manage discharge letters, manage queries with the hospital

Day to day work as directed by the given surgery

Changing acute medications to repeat where appropriate- A new medication that a GP/Nurse Practitioner has commenced and there is evidence for the need for the item on a repeat basis and necessary tests/checks have confirmed this.

Support with Care Homes when required

District Nurse Dressing requests.

Catheter, supplements/feeds and stoma care requests

Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing;

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

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, 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

Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews, and medicines reconciliation.

Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use and request their medicines effectively

Dispensary annual leave cover (6 weeks per year)

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

Organisational

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

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

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

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

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

Governance and Audit

Assist with governance and audits within the clinical pharmacy team

Actively participate in clinical governance within the PCNs and the member practices

Observe and maintain strict confidentiality with regards to any patient / family / staff / records and information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act and Practices policies and procedures;

Adhere to and participate with practices in infection control policies and procedures

Maintain professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Undertake mandatory training and any other training relevant to the role as required by PCN Practices

Undertake and/or participate in regular audits to monitor standards and quality.

Audits with SLAs, QIF and QOF where appropriate

This job description aims to illustrate the range and nature of responsibilities held by the post holder. The list of duties and responsibilities is not exhaustive and the post holder is expected to be flexible in their approach. The duties associated with the post will inevitably vary and develop and therefore the role will be reviewed on a regular basis and changes made in consultation with the post-holder.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exemptions) Order and as such it will be necessary for a submission for disclosure to be made to the Criminal Records Bureau to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Stafford Central PCN is committed to the fair treatment of its staff, potential staff or users.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Intellectually robust with a good standard of education with at least 2 C/GCSEs in Maths and English (or equivalent)
• NVQ Level in Pharmacy Services or Equivalent
• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Desirable

• Accuracy checking qualifications

Experience

Essential

• An understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality
• Able to work under pressure.
• Hard working, reliable, honest, pleasant and approachable.
• Willingness / availability to support the Practice in its provision of primary care medical services during Surgery opening hours. Qualifications Essential
• NVQ Level in Pharmacy Services or Equivalent
• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Able to work under pressure.
• Hard working, reliable, honest, pleasant and approachable.
• Willingness/availability to support the Practice in its provision of primary care medical services during surgery opening hours opening hours.

Desirable

• General Practice repeat prescribing systems Skills & Knowledge
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of pharmacy procedures
• Understanding of medicines legislation and ethics
• Knowledge of diversity issues and ability to work in non-discriminatory way.
• Medicines management or dispensing role in the community
• Policy / procedure development
• IT skills including MS Word and Excel Desirable
• Skills in analysing and presenting prescribing activity data
• EMIS Web user

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Weeping Cross Health Centre

Address

Bodmin Avenue

Stafford

ST17 0EG

Employer's website

https://www.wxhc.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)