Pharmacy Technician

Meadowgreen Health Centre

The closing date is 27 May 2024

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Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge in Primary Care? The Peak Edge Primary Care Network (PCN) is looking for a pharmacy technician to join their growing pharmacy team to deliver a clinical pharmacy service at a PCN and practice level. This is an evolving job role with huge scope for professional development.

The Peak Edge PCN is a network covering over 58,000 patients in Sheffield. We are a growing team of pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians who are innovative and committed to delivering high quality care for our patients. We are seeking a pharmacy technician to complement the team and to play a key role in delivering the PCN agenda.

Main duties of the job

Support the delivery of clinical pharmacy services such as reviewing clinic letters and hospital discharge summaries for changes to medication, either new medication added, or medication discontinued. It is also expected that any monitoring requirements arising from a secondary care letter will be noted. Several medications have shared-care protocols outlining monitoring requirements, any new shared-care arrangement should be agreed by a GP familiar with the shared care protocol. Read codes are often used to add a patient to a particular monitoring register.

Increase the quality and safety of prescribing through medicine safety initiatives and project work.

Deal with patient and healthcare professional medication-related queries

Action MHRA and CAS Alerts.

About us

Peak Edge Primary Care Network covers 4 GP practices:

Meadowgreen Health Centre

Woodseats Medical Centre

Steel City General Practice

Sloan Medical Centre

You will be joining an established team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

Date posted

25 April 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A0963-24-0003

Job locations

Jordanthorpe Health Centre

1 Dyche Close

Sheffield

S8 8DJ


Job description

Job responsibilities

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

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.

As determined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies

Support the clinical pharmacist to deliver structured medication reviews (SMRs) i.e., organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR.

Provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.

Manage shared care protocols and liaise with clinical pharmacists for more complex patients.

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

Support the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.

Implement efficient ordering processes and reduce medication wastage.

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

Promotion of Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering

Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the multidisciplinary team to support integration across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health.

Support practice reception teams in streaming general prescription requests, to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.

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

Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services.

Support the PCN in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC requirements.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

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.

As determined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies

Support the clinical pharmacist to deliver structured medication reviews (SMRs) i.e., organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR.

Provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.

Manage shared care protocols and liaise with clinical pharmacists for more complex patients.

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

Support the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.

Implement efficient ordering processes and reduce medication wastage.

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

Promotion of Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering

Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the multidisciplinary team to support integration across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health.

Support practice reception teams in streaming general prescription requests, to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.

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

Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services.

Support the PCN in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC requirements.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Good clinical pharmacy knowledge including terminology.
  • An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for the improvement of prescribing.
  • Knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law and ethics and current legislation.
  • Has attention to detail, able to work accurately, identifying errors quickly and easily.
  • Able to effectively manage allocated resources.
  • Has a planned and organised approach with an ability to prioritise their own workload to meet strict deadlines.
  • Able to think analytically; anticipating obstacles and thinking ahead; using analytical techniques to draw logical solutions to problems.
  • Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to adjust communication style and content to suit the audience.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with team members, patients, carers, and other healthcare professionals. Whilst recognising peoples needs for alternative methods of communication.
  • An excellent understanding of data protection and confidentiality issues.
  • Able to travel across the PCN.

Desirable

  • Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy

Qualifications

Essential

  • Qualifications & Experience: Professional registration with GPhC BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences Evidence of continued professional development (CPD)

Desirable

  • Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges.
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Good clinical pharmacy knowledge including terminology.
  • An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for the improvement of prescribing.
  • Knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law and ethics and current legislation.
  • Has attention to detail, able to work accurately, identifying errors quickly and easily.
  • Able to effectively manage allocated resources.
  • Has a planned and organised approach with an ability to prioritise their own workload to meet strict deadlines.
  • Able to think analytically; anticipating obstacles and thinking ahead; using analytical techniques to draw logical solutions to problems.
  • Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to adjust communication style and content to suit the audience.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with team members, patients, carers, and other healthcare professionals. Whilst recognising peoples needs for alternative methods of communication.
  • An excellent understanding of data protection and confidentiality issues.
  • Able to travel across the PCN.

Desirable

  • Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy

Qualifications

Essential

  • Qualifications & Experience: Professional registration with GPhC BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences Evidence of continued professional development (CPD)

Desirable

  • Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Meadowgreen Health Centre

Address

Jordanthorpe Health Centre

1 Dyche Close

Sheffield

S8 8DJ


Employer's website

https://meadowgreenhealthcentre.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Meadowgreen Health Centre

Address

Jordanthorpe Health Centre

1 Dyche Close

Sheffield

S8 8DJ


Employer's website

https://meadowgreenhealthcentre.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

PCN Manager

Lesley Holmes

lesley.holmes5@nhs.net

Date posted

25 April 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A0963-24-0003

Job locations

Jordanthorpe Health Centre

1 Dyche Close

Sheffield

S8 8DJ


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