Job responsibilities
a.
undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective
medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients;
b.
carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine
administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication
reviews, and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation
skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines
effectively and engage with the ICB Medicines Optimisation Team to improve quality of prescribing;
c.
Work with dispensing team to maintain compliance to DSQS to include annual clinical audit and standard operating procedures;
d.
provide specialist expertise, where competent, to address both the public
health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service
information, and help in tackling local health inequalities;
e.
take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and
liaising with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients;
f.
support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate
antibiotic prescribing;
g.
assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive
schemes and patient safety audits including monitoring Drug Safety Alerts and actioning when necessary;
h.
support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within
GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings. This will be achieved
through undertaking clinical audits (e.g. use of antibiotics), supporting
quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes
Framework and enhanced services;
Technical and Administrative responsibilities of the Pharmacy Technician:
a.
work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines
optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return processes,
and reducing wastage;
b.
supervise practice reception teams in sorting and streaming general
prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review
the more clinically complex requests;
c.
provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems across the practice, supporting
practices with a range of services to get the best value from medicines by
encouraging and implementing Electronic Prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing
systems, and timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines;
d.
provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of
medicines, especially to new staff undertaking their dispensing NVQ, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service
(EPS); and
e.
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.