Job summary
Innovations in Primary Care (IPC), a federation of the GP Practices within the Coastal West Sussex area, is looking for a Pharmacy Technician to work for the Rural North Chichester Primary Care Network (PCN) - comprising of four practices: Loxwood Medical Practice, Petworth Surgery, Pulborough Medical Group and Riverbank Medical Centre.
We have a full-time position available at Loxwood and Petworth.
The successful candidate will join our existing team of Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians. You will support
the development of excellent utilisation of pharmacy within primary care to
pro-actively help patients stay safe and well and out of hospital. This
includes using medicines knowledge to help improve the efficiency and resilience
of General Practice teams.
Additional Information
Applicants must have experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, the community or hospital pharmacy.
Interview Details
Please note, interviews are planned to take place on 16th
November 2022.
Main duties of the job
A relatively new role in General
Practice combining patient-facing, analytical and administrative elements of
work. The post-holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines
by communicating changes to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat
prescribing processes, promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering,
minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.
About us
IPC is an innovative and ethical company providing high quality, integrated, patient-focused NHS services. We achieve this by harnessing the collective knowledge, skills, experience and energy of our clinicians and staff. If you believe in the importance and effectiveness of providing excellent care where patients need it and would like to apply to join us in this role, we would love to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key responsibilities
- Support the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.
- Stream general prescription requests and work the reception teams, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.
- Assist patients with responses to medication queries
- Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation and increased use of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
- Promote Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering as appropriate to patient and practice needs.
- Implement efficient ordering and return processes and reduce medication wastage, liaising with patients as needed.
- Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.
- Help to organise and run various systems for the delivery of QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services.
- Review and develop policies in line with CQC compliance.
- Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the multi-disciplinary team including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and mental health.
- Contribute to the delivery of effective daily processes for the transfer of care between hospitals and GPs including effective signposting, record updates and relate communication.
- Through the use of audit and action planning, help to tackle health inequalities.
Please see the attached job description for full details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key responsibilities
- Support the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.
- Stream general prescription requests and work the reception teams, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.
- Assist patients with responses to medication queries
- Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation and increased use of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
- Promote Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering as appropriate to patient and practice needs.
- Implement efficient ordering and return processes and reduce medication wastage, liaising with patients as needed.
- Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.
- Help to organise and run various systems for the delivery of QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services.
- Review and develop policies in line with CQC compliance.
- Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the multi-disciplinary team including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and mental health.
- Contribute to the delivery of effective daily processes for the transfer of care between hospitals and GPs including effective signposting, record updates and relate communication.
- Through the use of audit and action planning, help to tackle health inequalities.
Please see the attached job description for full details.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional registration with GPhC
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
- Evidence of continued professional development (CPD)
- Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community, or hospital pharmacy
- Good clinical pharmacy knowledge including terminology
- Computer literate (MS office packages)
- Excellent organisation skills
- Excellent communication skills with ability to adjust to suit the audience
- Strong understanding of data protection and confidentiality
- Self-motivated and proactive
- Be willing to commit to/have already completed the CPPE pathway
Desirable
- Experience of working in a GP practice
- Experience using SystmOne or EMIS
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional registration with GPhC
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
- Evidence of continued professional development (CPD)
- Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community, or hospital pharmacy
- Good clinical pharmacy knowledge including terminology
- Computer literate (MS office packages)
- Excellent organisation skills
- Excellent communication skills with ability to adjust to suit the audience
- Strong understanding of data protection and confidentiality
- Self-motivated and proactive
- Be willing to commit to/have already completed the CPPE pathway
Desirable
- Experience of working in a GP practice
- Experience using SystmOne or EMIS
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
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).
