Primary Care Network Pharmacy Technician

Lakeside Healthcare Group

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Job summary

Lakeside Healthcare is continuing to expand its team of Pharmacy Technicians across the organisation and its Primary Care Network member practices. We aim to build the largest Pharmacy Technician workforce in General Practice. We value the contribution that Pharmacy Technicians make within our multi-disciplinary teams, and we aim to continue to safely push the boundaries in-order to develop the Pharmacy Technician role.

Main duties of the job

Your role will be to predominately support our Pharmacists with Medicines Reconciliation and Medication Reviews. 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. As a starting point the role will initially focus on medicines reconciliation from clinic and discharge letters, and will develop further as the role of the Pharmacy team expands within the organisation. It is vital that effective systems and procedures are in place to ensure that this process 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 also ensures that patients receive the appropriate monitoring necessary for the medication they are prescribed.

If you are working across a Primary Care Network, you will be required to complete the 15 month CPPE Training pathway for Pharmacy Technicians. Please see the CPPE website for further information.

Within the Supporting Information of your application please state the number of hours and days you wish to work.

About us

LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are the largest true partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire. 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. We strive to ensure we connect and respond to all needs with compassion, care and respect to improve the lives and wellbeing of the communities we serve.

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

St Neots PCN is an average sized yet forward-thinking Primary Care Network (PCN) comprising of three practices within central St Neots and Great Staughton. We have built and developed a growing pharmacy team and recognise the value that these roles will bring to our practices and our patients, we now look forward to growing our PCN team.

Date posted

23 April 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£24,000 to £28,000 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A3007-24-0112

Job locations

Doctors Surgery

14 Huntingdon Street

St. Neots

Cambridgeshire

PE19 1BQ

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 as appropriate

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 of CCG 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 antibiotic prescribing.

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 Lakeside Healthcare. This could include:

Participation in individual performance reviews, including maintaining a record of your own personal and professional development.

Working with the Senior Pharmacist and the Management team to assess own learning needs 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 required.