Pharmacy Technician

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

To work with the clinicians in each practice team to rationalise and manage medicines, prescribing, repeat prescribing and the medicine review processes within each practice.

To support practices in the delivery of local and national NHS / ICB targets and objectives.

Management Line

Clinical management will be through the Clinical Pharmacist lead with line management provided by the Belper PCN management team.

Knowledge, Skills And Experience

Essential

1. Professional registration with GPhC
2. Evidence of continued professional development
3. Demonstrate ability to influence partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different medication management options
4. Awareness of systems to support management of patients in a primary care setting
5. Excellent clinical pharmacy knowledge including terminology
6. Understanding of pharmacy law, ethics and current legislation
7. Self-motivated, able to manage own time and work on own initiative
8. Understand and be able to work in a multidisciplinary team
9. Computer literate
10. Clear understanding of patient confidentiality framework

Desirable

1. Knowledge of local and national priorities
2. Experience of working in Primary Care
3. Experience of working in Community pharmacy
4. Knowledge of GP computer systems
5. Critical Appraisal skills
6. Understanding of PACT data

6. Key Working Areas

Primary Roles:

- Medication reconciliation

- Support the practices to achieve cost effective prescribing

To provide advice and support as part of the MDT; to promote the clinically appropriate use of medicines at practice level.

Carry out medicines optimisation tasks under direction of PCN Pharmacists

- Working towards undertaking a patient facing role to ensure effective medicines use through shared decision making conversations with patients

Day to Day Workload to include:

Direct discussions with patients on a range of medicine related issues e.g. medication compliance and post discharge reviews

Support pharmacists in medication reviews / deprescribing for care home patients

Medicines reconciliation after hospital discharge and from clinic letters

Manage shared protocols and liaise with pharmacist for more complex patients

Support clinical pharmacist in structured medication reviews

Support initiatives to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing

To carry out audits on prescribing as required

Provide training and support to reception and administration teams

Communications And Working Relationships:

Within the PCN:

Clinical Pharmacists

Prescribers in each practice

Practice staff

Primary Health care teams

External:

ICB Medicines Management Team

ICB Practice Pharmacists

Community Pharmacists

Pharmacists and other staff from neighbouring PCNs

Secondary Care

Nursing and residential homes

Pharmaceutical Industry

Key Challenge of role

Influencing and implementing change in the management of medicines at practice level in line with the rapidly developing national and local agenda.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Current registration as a pharmacy technician with GPhC

Desirable

• Experience of working in primary care

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

Belper PCN

Address

c/o Riversdale Surgery

Belper

Derbyshire

DE56 1AY