Job summary
We are looking for a Pharmacy Technician to join our developing multidisciplinary team across Rockingham Forest Primary Care Network (PCN).
The role of pharmacy within General Practice is part of an existing programme of transformation which is underpinned by the NHS Long Term Plan.
This innovative role offers the successful candidate the opportunity to support and work within the Lakeside Healthcare Pharmacy Team to ensure safe and effective use of medicines for its patients whilst working in line with evolving requirements of PCNs.
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Main duties of the job
This is an innovative role to work within the Lakeside Healthcare Pharmacy team to ensure safe and effective use of medicines for patients within Lakeside Healthcare.
Medicine reconciliation from clinic letters.
Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and ensuring prescribing in practice is in line with ICB Formulary.
Medication reviews.
Support Clinical Pharmacists with general prescription requests and medication queries to allow them to review the more clinically complex requests.
Participate in practice meetings to improve engagement of the role of pharmacy technician within the Lakeside Pharmacy model and to promote issues relevant to prescribing e.g. antimicrobial stewardship and improving quality of prescribing.
Undertake training and development, to ensure the required knowledge and skills for practice-based work e.g. continuing development through CPPE Pathway.
Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation incentive schemes and audits relating to MHRA alerts, drug monitoring and other patient safety initiatives, including high risk drug monitoring for all patients.
Develop 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.
About us
LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. Joining our team presents an opportunity to be part of a large organisation that is changing the way primary care is delivered today.
Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do.
Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service.
About the Practice/Department/Team
Working within the Rockingham Forest Primary Care Network (PCN) you will be part of a forward-thinking Primary Care Network comprising of three surgeries across Corby, Kettering and Oundle. We recognise the value that these roles will bring to our practices and our patients, and we look forward to growing our PCN team. You will be joining an established, dynamic and varied team whose aim is to provide exemplary patient care; finding innovative solutions in general practice to deliver the best care we can to our patients.
We strongly believe in learning and teaching to progress personal development. Further training and development is encouraged to help build your role according to your aspirations and the needs of the business.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role of pharmacy within General Practice is part of an exciting programme of transformationwhich is underpinned by the NHS Long Term Plan.
This is an innovative role to work within the Lakeside Healthcare Pharmacy team to ensure safeand effective use of medicines for patients within Lakeside Healthcare.
As a starting point the role will initially focus on medicines reconciliation from clinic and dischargeletters, and will develop further as the role of the Pharmacy team expands within theorganisation. It is vital that effective systems and procedures are in place to ensure that thisprocess is effective, safe and efficient. The right candidate will be involved in day to daymanagement of this with regular and thorough reviews of all medications. The process alsoensures that patients receive the appropriate monitoring necessary for the medication they areprescribed.
DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Job Responsibilities/Principal Duties to include:
Medicines reconciliation from clinic and discharge letters
Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols
Level 1 medication reviews to include:
o Identifying patients on repeat medication who have not had a medication review.
o Check medical notes to assess if any monitoring is required and arrange asappropriate.
o Update medication as appropriate following defined protocols.
o Remove any old or unnecessary medication from repeat.
o Update quantities to provide appropriate supply each month.
o Review dosage instructions to ensure concise and clear instructions.
Ensure prescribing is in-line with the Lakeside Drug Formulary whilst taking consideration ofCCG prescribing guidance.
Support Clinical Pharmacists with general prescription requests and medication queries toallow them to review the more clinically complex requests.
Liaise with the pharmacist if there are any concerns regarding patient medication regimens.
Promote and support the implementation of electronic repeat dispensing.
Conduct searches for audits and high-risk drug monitoring using clinical systems.
Participate in practice meetings, and other meetings to improve engagement of the role ofpharmacy technician within the Lakeside Pharmacy model and to promote issues relevant toprescribing.
Undertake training and development, to ensure the required knowledge and skills forpractice-based work.
Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibioticprescribing.
Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation incentive schemes and audits relating toMHRA alerts, drug monitoring and other patient safety initiatives.
Develop relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of themulti-disciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across health and socialcare including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health.
Training and personal development:
You will participate in any training and development programmes implemented by LakesideHealthcare. This could include:
Participation in individual performance reviews, including maintaining a record of yourown personal and professional development.
Working with the Senior Pharmacist and the Management team to assess own learningneeds and undertaken any training as appropriate.
Make effective use of learning opportunities inside and outside the workplace, andprovide relevant feedback where appropriate.
Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to sharegood practice and inform others about current and future developments.
Undertake mandatory and statutory training as require.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role of pharmacy within General Practice is part of an exciting programme of transformationwhich is underpinned by the NHS Long Term Plan.
This is an innovative role to work within the Lakeside Healthcare Pharmacy team to ensure safeand effective use of medicines for patients within Lakeside Healthcare.
As a starting point the role will initially focus on medicines reconciliation from clinic and dischargeletters, and will develop further as the role of the Pharmacy team expands within theorganisation. It is vital that effective systems and procedures are in place to ensure that thisprocess is effective, safe and efficient. The right candidate will be involved in day to daymanagement of this with regular and thorough reviews of all medications. The process alsoensures that patients receive the appropriate monitoring necessary for the medication they areprescribed.
DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Job Responsibilities/Principal Duties to include:
Medicines reconciliation from clinic and discharge letters
Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols
Level 1 medication reviews to include:
o Identifying patients on repeat medication who have not had a medication review.
o Check medical notes to assess if any monitoring is required and arrange asappropriate.
o Update medication as appropriate following defined protocols.
o Remove any old or unnecessary medication from repeat.
o Update quantities to provide appropriate supply each month.
o Review dosage instructions to ensure concise and clear instructions.
Ensure prescribing is in-line with the Lakeside Drug Formulary whilst taking consideration ofCCG prescribing guidance.
Support Clinical Pharmacists with general prescription requests and medication queries toallow them to review the more clinically complex requests.
Liaise with the pharmacist if there are any concerns regarding patient medication regimens.
Promote and support the implementation of electronic repeat dispensing.
Conduct searches for audits and high-risk drug monitoring using clinical systems.
Participate in practice meetings, and other meetings to improve engagement of the role ofpharmacy technician within the Lakeside Pharmacy model and to promote issues relevant toprescribing.
Undertake training and development, to ensure the required knowledge and skills forpractice-based work.
Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibioticprescribing.
Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation incentive schemes and audits relating toMHRA alerts, drug monitoring and other patient safety initiatives.
Develop relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of themulti-disciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across health and socialcare including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health.
Training and personal development:
You will participate in any training and development programmes implemented by LakesideHealthcare. This could include:
Participation in individual performance reviews, including maintaining a record of yourown personal and professional development.
Working with the Senior Pharmacist and the Management team to assess own learningneeds and undertaken any training as appropriate.
Make effective use of learning opportunities inside and outside the workplace, andprovide relevant feedback where appropriate.
Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to sharegood practice and inform others about current and future developments.
Undertake mandatory and statutory training as require.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical
- sciences.
- Professional Registration with the GPhC.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Experience of working as a Pharmacy Technician
- in community pharmacy.
Desirable
- Experience of working
- as a Pharmacy
- Technician in either a
- CCG or hospital pharmacy.
Experience
Essential
- Good knowledge of Clinical Pharmacy and
- general medical terminology.
- Good standard of written and spoken English.
- Knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law
- and ethics and current legislation.
Desirable
- Experience of clinical
- systems
- (SystemOne/Emis/Vision).
- An appreciation of NHS
- agenda and CCG targets
- relating to prescribing.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical
- sciences.
- Professional Registration with the GPhC.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Experience of working as a Pharmacy Technician
- in community pharmacy.
Desirable
- Experience of working
- as a Pharmacy
- Technician in either a
- CCG or hospital pharmacy.
Experience
Essential
- Good knowledge of Clinical Pharmacy and
- general medical terminology.
- Good standard of written and spoken English.
- Knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law
- and ethics and current legislation.
Desirable
- Experience of clinical
- systems
- (SystemOne/Emis/Vision).
- An appreciation of NHS
- agenda and CCG targets
- relating to prescribing.
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).
