Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
The following are the
core responsibilities of the Pharmacy Technician. There may be, on occasion, a
requirement to carry out other tasks, this will be dependent upon factors such
as workload and staffing levels. The pharmacy technician will work within their
scope of clinical practice
Key responsibilities
- Work with the
Clinical Pharmacists, Community Pharmacists and Clinicians in - accordance with agreed practice prescribing
standard operating procedures.
- Process repeat
medication request, including conversion of acute requests to repeat medicines,
changing quantities of medicines.
- Issuing
prescriptions in line with agreed clinical protocols and within competency.
- Provide advice and
guidance to patients regarding medication optimisation and lifestyle e.g
inhaler techniques.
- Provide medication
review services to patients via clinics in the practice, domiciliary visits and
in residential and nursing homes, and to deliver pharmaceutical care plans that
maximise cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient care.
- Support the
achievement of the practices prescribing targets ie QOF, IIF and local
incentive scheme.
- Dealing with
medication queries including acute medication requests, patient medication and
prescription queries.
- To update and
maintain accurate patient medication records on the practice clinical system,
including advice given and advice taken.
- Liaise with primary
and secondary care colleagues to ensure correct medicines are continued
following the transfer of care.
- To assist the
Senior Clinical Pharmacist with data analysis of prescribing behaviour in line
with NICE guidance and local clinical commissioning directives.
- To assist with the
development and review of medicine audits.
- Provide a contact
for patients and colleagues with medication queries.
- Project
work/prescribing initiatives under the support of the Pharmacist.
- Conduct medication
reconciliation following discharge from hospital, clinic visits and other
transfers of care, to ensure that medication changers are safely implemented in
a timely fashion.
- To link with
hospital and community pharmacy colleagues to address discrepancies, supply
issues and queries within competency.
- Liaise with wider
health care team including primary care staff, community nurses and care home
staff with medication queries.
- To undertake
regular audits.
- To support the safe
and effective repeat prescribing of high risk medicines, ensuring that regular
monitoring as per local/shared care guidance is taking place.
- Supporting patients
to manage their medicines, for example, synchronisation of medications,
reviewing patients suitability for monitored dosage systems, and setting up
electronic repeat dispensing.
- To document
interventions made to patients medications in their health care records to
ensure there is a clear audit trail and changes are clearly accounted for.
- To promote cost
effective, safe, evidence based prescribing in accordance with local formulary,
medication optimisation strategy and national guidance.
- Attend local
meetings seeking to improve access to medicines or repeat prescribing
processes.
- Ensure patients and
their families / carers views are taken into account in every stage of the
decision making process.
- Seek advice from
clinical lead as appropriate.
Development and
Improvement
- Contribute to the
development of efficient and effective services
Performance and Quality
- Liaise with
reception, admin, and clinical teams to ensure effective care is delivered
Communications
- Communicate
effectively by competent use of email, telephone, written, and face-to-face
communication
- Ensure timely and
accurate handling of messages/tasks, ensuring all unresolved or urgent matters
are prioritised
- The post holder has
access to confidential patient information and will, therefore need to have a
working knowledge and adhere to all aspects of information governance, data
protection and confidentiality policies. Ensure that patient confidentiality is
maintained at all times
Internal Relationships
The post holder will
work with little supervision, prioritising and managing their own workload on a
day-to-day basis
General
- To ensure ongoing
compliance with the CQCs (Care Quality Commission) essential standards of
quality and safety
- To comply with all
relevant Health and Safety regulations and policy
- To comply with and
actively promote NCPCs Equality and Diversity Policy
- To support
sustainability practices and recognise the shared responsibility of carrying
out duties in a resource efficient way
- To undertake any
other duties as appropriate
Salary is £13.49 to
£16.66 per hour.
Benefits:
Company events
Company pension
Employee discount
Flexitime
Free flu jabs
Free parking
On-site parking
Private medical
insurance
Sick pay
Store discount
Birthday day off
Schedule:
Day shift
Flexitime
Monday to Friday
Weekend availability
