Job responsibilities
Role Description and Responsibilities
Work
alongside all GP practice staff as an integrated part of the team, undertaking
numerous medicines related activities.
Support reception staff to process
repeat prescription ordering. Review requests that come in, ensure that any
appropriate monitoring has been done or arrange this, contact patients to
understand any issues that arise. Pass to prescriber for clinical review and issuing
with appropriate information attached.
Medicines reconciliation from
discharge letters and out patient appointments to ensure timely and safe
changes and address any concerns ahead of issuing by prescribers.
Help patients to
get the best from their medicines by:-
o Dealing with ad-hoc patient and healthcare-related queries
regarding medications.
o Be involved with Annual Chronic Disease review process as part of
GP practice MDT by helping review and discuss any medication queries with
patients and support new medication initiation.
o Specific clinics to review medications to help understanding of
own medicines, support medication synchronisation, concordance.
Help ensure
practice is following appropriate prescribing guidelines via audit and review
of safety alerts and new guidance.
Support
initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic
prescribing.
Take a central role in running and enhancing practices
current processes on safe prescribing and monitoring of High Risk Drugs.
Take a
central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with
specialist pharmacists for more complex patients
Promotion of electronic repeat dispensing and online
ordering
Work with local
pharmacies to ensure good relationship for benefit of patients.
Support nurse and
HCA with monitoring and regulations around storage of medications in surgery.
Teach students
and GP trainees on how practice prescribing system works and their role within
it.
Support research
projects that are being undertaken within the practice.
Work
alongside all PCN Pharmacy staff as an integrated part of the team, undertaking
numerous medicines related activities.
Support the
monitoring of medications in accordance with protocols and medication/patient
risk stratification tools
Help patients to
get the best from their medicines by:-
o Liaising with PCN pharmacists with clinical queries
o Arranging SMRs both via audit process and ad-hoc for those that
need
o Work with PCN Pharmacy Technicians to support audit work required
for PCN contract
o Participate in PCN pharmacy
meetings to improve engagement between practice and PCN
Work
alongside all ICB staff as an integrated part of the team, undertaking numerous
medicines related activities.
Carry out medicine switches in GP practices in line with practice and ICB
agreed specific protocols reviewing patients records; amending records and
informing patients
Increase awareness of role of pharmacy technician
within the practice and to promote issues relevant to prescribing and medicines
optimisation
Contribute to
minimising clinical risks and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.
To undertake,
participate and share the outcomes of clinical audits to facilitate improvement
and changes in practice
Assist the practice
in achieving national requirements, NICE implementation and utilisation of
medicines optimisation initiatives.
General
To be
responsible for the organisation, planning and of own workload to meet set
deadlines
To utilise GP
practice clinical systems to conduct prescribing audits e.g. EMIS
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
Handle function specific information, which may be sensitive, complex or
confidential and appropriately recording, transferring and/or coordinating such
information in accordance with the Data Protection Act; Caldicott Guidelines
and the Confidentiality Code of Conduct
This job
description is intended to provide an outline of the key tasks and
responsibilities only. There may be other duties required of the post-holder commensurate
with the position. This description will be open to regular review and may be
amended to take into account development within the practices.
All members
of staff should be prepared to take on additional duties or relinquish existing
duties in order to maintain the efficient running of the practice.