Job responsibilities
JOB DESCRIPTION
JOB TITLE: PHARMACY
TECHINICIAN
Reporting to: LEAD
CLINICAL PHARMCIST
Job
responsibilities:
Assist in the delivery of the Holderness Health
Prescribing and Medicines Management Plan and the delivery of patient services
as determined by Holderness Health policy and local and national guidance.
Recognise and work within own competencies using own
judgement, resourcefulness and common sense.
Assist in the delivery of a robust and safe system for
prescribing repeat medications.
Promotion of electronic repeat dispensing and online
ordering.
Adhere to repeat prescribing policy, ensuring necessary
clinical reviews and monitoring are conducted at appropriate intervals.
Undertake medicine reconciliation to ensure all repeat
medications are accurate, maintained up-to-date and are synchronised on the
clinical system.
Effectively communicate with pharmacy colleagues in other
sectors to promote best care for patients in relation to medicines management.
Support the Lead Clinical Pharmacist and the clinical
pharmacy team in training student technicians, dispensers, and allied
healthcare professionals.
Support the development and implementation of Standard
Operating Procedures
Discuss medication with patients and counsel patients on
the correct use and care of their medicines.
Identify and report problems in administration of
medicines such as medicine interactions and other physical factors that may
affect patient compliance.
Liaise with Clinical Pharmacists, GPs and Non-Medical
Prescribers about prescriptions to ensure accuracy and prevent risk.
Ensure that all errors and near misses are logged in
accordance with Holderness Healths procedures and undertake any activity
necessary to rectify or prevent errors.
Support the work that maximises cost-effective prescribing
and improves the quality of patient care.
Support local care homes in the ordering and management of
repeat prescriptions for their residents, ensuring medicines optimisation is provided
for vulnerable patients.
Work with patients either face to face or over the
telephone.
Support the Lead Clinical Pharmacist with the development
of technician led, patient facing clinics.
Promote high quality, cost effective and evidence based
use of medicines within Holderness Health.
Assist in the safe and appropriate storage of medicines.
Participate in education and training for staff, carers
and patients on medicines management issues.
Keep up-to-date with current pharmacy practice, new drugs
and their uses for the purpose of continuing professional development.
Maintain accurate and complete records in accordance with
data protection principles to ensure patient confidentiality.
Other responsibilities:
Follow agreed protocols, referring to Clinical Pharmacists
or GPs as appropriate.
Follow local and national Infection Control guidelines.
Contribute to achievement of the highest possible quality
standards such as the QOF and other agreed Key Performance Indicator targets.
Attend in-house educational and staff meetings as
appropriate.
Assist with the training of other staff members and also
with the education of doctors and nurses in training as appropriate.
Positively facilitate change.
Demonstrate pro-active engagement with the practice
population and wider community to promote healthy living and encourage uptake
of services. This may include visits to local schools, community centres and
other groups as necessary.
Undertake additional tasks as required within your general
role.
Business responsibilities:
Maintain the ethos and culture of Holderness Health.
Positively promote Holderness Health.
Engage in enhanced and extended services.
Attend in-house governance, educational and staff meetings
as appropriate
Help plan, develop and support the introduction of new
working processes to optimise quality
Build and maintain relationships with other healthcare
professionals, including GPs, the wider practice team, Care Home teams,
Community Services staff and community pharmacists.
Safeguarding:
Be responsible for and committed to safeguarding and
promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults, children and young people and for
ensuring that they are protected from harm.
Be aware of your duties and responsibilities regarding
current legislation and adhere to Holderness Health policies and procedures on
Child Protection and Safeguarding Adults.
Recognise the types and signs of abuse and neglect.
Ensure the Safeguarding Lead is alerted to, and kept fully
informed of, any concerns you may have in relation to safeguarding adults,
children and young people.
Learning and development:
Participate in any training programme implemented by
Holderness Health as part of this employment.
Participate in individual performance reviews, including
maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
Work with departmental and senior management to assess own
learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate.
Develop and utilise a written Personal Development Plan.
Make effective use of learning opportunities within and
outside the workplace, evaluating their effectiveness and feeding back relevant
information.
Disseminate learning and information gained to other team
members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and
future developments.
Undertake mandatory and statutory training as required.
Team working:
Understand own role and scope in the organisation and
identify how this may develop over time.
Work as an effective and responsible team member,
supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working.
Accept delegation from senior staff, prioritise own
workload and ensure effective time management strategies are embedded in own
practice.
Participate in team activities that create opportunities
to improve patient care.
Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting
on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and
enhance the teams performance.
Participate and support local projects as agreed with the
management team.
Confidentiality:
In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job
Description, you may have access to confidential information relating to
patients and their carers, Holderness Health staff and other healthcare
workers. You may also have access to information relating to Holderness Health
as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be
regarded as strictly confidential.
Information relating to customers, carers, colleagues,
other healthcare workers or the business of Holderness Health may only be
divulged to authorised persons in accordance with Holderness Health policies
and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and
sensitive data.
Health & Safety:
You will assist in promoting and maintaining your own and
others health, safety and security as defined in Holderness Health policies
including:
Using personal security systems within the workplace
according to guidelines.
Identifying the risks involved in work activities and
undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
Making effective use of training to update knowledge and
skills.
Using appropriate infection control procedures,
maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
Reporting potential risks identified.
Equality and Diversity:
You will support the equality, diversity and rights of
customers, carers and colleagues, including:
Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples
rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Holderness Health
procedures and policies, and current legislation.
Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of
customers, carers and colleagues.
Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the
individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings
priorities and rights.
