PCN ARRS Pharmacy Technician

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Core activities of Pharmacy Technician

Daily prescription queries

Providing support to Clinical Pharmacists in managing daily patient prescription requirements. To include the resolution of patient / pharmacy queries. In particular focussing on:Out of stock medicationsPharmacy queriesETP queries

Discharge Summaries

Managing and processing discharge summaries and clinical letters.

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

Reviewing Patient Medication

Running Medication Review clinics either patient facing or virtually, including in Care Homes.

To include carrying 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.

Providing 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.

Vaccination Programmes

Supporting vaccination programmes for patients and staff as required

MHRA Alerts

Managing MHRA alerts and actions, including leading the receipt and understanding of the alert, communicating with PCN contacts and completing all associated actions.

Actions may include, carrying out audits and patient searches, contacting patients and sending patient letters.

EclipseAlerts

Managing Eclipse alerts. To include running searches and deciding on the appropriate course of action based on findings, communicating with PCN contacts and completing all associated actions.

Actions may include, carrying out audits and patient searches, contacting patients and sending patient letter.

Audits

Undertaking clinical audits, supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services.

Assisting in the delivery of medicines optimisation incentive schemes (e.g. medicines switches) and patient safety audits.

Leadership

Being the point of contact for ICB for cost switches and cost savings

Supporting initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.

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

Developing 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.

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

Ensuring practices security surrounding prescriptions pads, administration and staff training is robust.

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

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

Support trainees such as Pre-registration Pharmacy technicians and Foundation Pharmacists with their learning needs as required

Training requirements

All pharmacy technicians must have completed or be enrolled in, be undertaking or be prepared to start the CPPE approved 15-month training pathway (PCPEP). Pharmacy technicians must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. Entry to the PCPEP programme will include the option for an accreditation of Prior Learning (APEL) process.

Person Specification

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Relevant advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of general practice and evidence based medicine
• 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

Experience

Essential

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

Qualifications

Essential

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

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Wyvern Health Partnership

Address

Priory Road

Swindon

SN3 2EZ

Employer's website

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