Job summary
Gibson Lane Practice is looking for a dynamic and motivated part time Pharmacy Technician (24 hours per week) to join our Clinical Pharmacist.
Our ideal candidate acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside our pharmacist in General Practice. In this role they will be supported by a Clinical Pharmacist.
The successful applicant will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The purpose of the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost-effective best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care. You will help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes in general practice, including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will provide support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will carry out medicine switches in line with practice and ICB agreed specific protocols reviewing patient's records, amending records and informing patients.They will help support the repeat prescriptions system promoting electronic repeat dispensing and online ordering. Carry out housekeeping whilst in patient records eg dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation.
The post holder will be the first port of call to answer and deal with any medicines related queries from administration and reception staff. The aim of which is to improve the quality of care for our patients and operational efficiencies within the PCN, so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service to patients within General Practice.
About us
Gibson Lane Practice is committed to providing a positive working environment for all of our staff, where staff are actively encouraged to develop and grow. Our staff consists of 6 GP Partners, 4 GPs, 3 GP Registrars, plus a dedicated Nursing Team, Pharmacist, a Health & Wellbeing Coach, Patient Coordinators, Admin, Secretarial and a Management team who are open, supportive and make for a fantastic team.
We are active with the local PCN and are forward thinking in terms of developing new initiatives to offer enhanced services to our patients.
The practice is a teaching practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Pharmacy Technician is to assume the following key responsibilities in delivering health services.
a. Undertake patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicine use through shared decision-making conversations with patients
b. Conduct medicine optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. When required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively
c. Support, as determined by the organisation, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronise medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking with local community pharmacists
d. Provide specialist expertise, when 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. Maintain a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaise 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
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
i. Attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed
j. Contribute to public health campaigns (e.g., COVID-19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care
k. To always maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Pharmacy Technician is to assume the following key responsibilities in delivering health services.
a. Undertake patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicine use through shared decision-making conversations with patients
b. Conduct medicine optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. When required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively
c. Support, as determined by the organisation, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronise medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking with local community pharmacists
d. Provide specialist expertise, when 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. Maintain a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaise 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
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
i. Attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed
j. Contribute to public health campaigns (e.g., COVID-19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care
k. To always maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- - Experience working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician.
- - Understanding of prescribing and medicines management issues.
- - Good clinical pharmaceutical knowledge including terminology.
- - An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies to improve prescribing.
Desirable
- - Experience of working within primary care.
- - Relevant theoretical and practical knowledge of Primary Care Networks, - General Practice and evidence-based medicine.
- - Awareness of systems to support the management of patients in a primary care setting, delivering pharmaceutical input and support the context of pathways of care.
- - Awareness of GP budgets and funding systems.
- - Knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law and ethics and current legislation.
- - Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data.
Qualifications
Essential
- - Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacy Technician (GPhC)
- - BTEC/NVQ3 Pharmacy Services (or equivalent).
- - Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development.
- - Enrolled in, undertaking or qualified from, an approved training pathway. For example, the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH) or courses approved by the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK (APTUK) as meeting the requirements of the UK-wide APTUK/PCPA National Competency Framework for Primary Care Pharmacy Technicians
Desirable
- - Experience working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician.
- - Experience of working within primary care.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- - Experience working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician.
- - Understanding of prescribing and medicines management issues.
- - Good clinical pharmaceutical knowledge including terminology.
- - An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies to improve prescribing.
Desirable
- - Experience of working within primary care.
- - Relevant theoretical and practical knowledge of Primary Care Networks, - General Practice and evidence-based medicine.
- - Awareness of systems to support the management of patients in a primary care setting, delivering pharmaceutical input and support the context of pathways of care.
- - Awareness of GP budgets and funding systems.
- - Knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law and ethics and current legislation.
- - Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data.
Qualifications
Essential
- - Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacy Technician (GPhC)
- - BTEC/NVQ3 Pharmacy Services (or equivalent).
- - Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development.
- - Enrolled in, undertaking or qualified from, an approved training pathway. For example, the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH) or courses approved by the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK (APTUK) as meeting the requirements of the UK-wide APTUK/PCPA National Competency Framework for Primary Care Pharmacy Technicians
Desirable
- - Experience working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician.
- - Experience of working within primary care.
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).
