Job summary
Its an exciting time to join our growing PCN Pharmacy team. This great
opportunity will allow you to work as part of a 15 person clinical pharmacy team to deliver care to our 70,000 patients across six practices. Clinical
Pharmacy in General Practice model is supported by the direction of national policy including the
Five Year Forward View and GP Forward View where there is a need to better utilise the role of
pharmacy within primary care to pro-actively help patients stay well and out of hospital as well as
helping to reduce the demands on general practice. Pharmacy technicians play an important role,
complementing clinical pharmacists, community pharmacists and other members of the PCN multidisciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
The purpose of the role is to support improvements to maximise safe, cost effective best practice in
prescribing to improve the quality of patient care. The post holder 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.
About us
Healthier West Wirral PCN supports a population of over 70,000 patients across 6 different Practices
including Marine Lake Medical Practice, Heswall and Pensby Group Practice, Commonfield Road
Surgery, Upton Group Practice, West Wirral Group Practice and Greasby Group Practice.
We are an ambitious and forward thinking organisation that has already had much success building a
large PCN team including Physician Associates, Care Coordinators and Paramedics.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities
- Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
- 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.
- As determined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies.
- Support the Clinical Pharmacist in Structure Medication Reviews (SMR) i.e. organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR.
- Provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.
- Manage shared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients.
- Support the PCN to deliver on QOF, IIF and other locally commissioned enhanced services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Duties and responsibilities
- Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
- 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.
- As determined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies.
- Support the Clinical Pharmacist in Structure Medication Reviews (SMR) i.e. organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR.
- Provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.
- Manage shared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients.
- Support the PCN to deliver on QOF, IIF and other locally commissioned enhanced services.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Who we're looking for
- -Professional registration with GPhC
- -BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
- -Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care,
- community or hospital pharmacy
- -Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective
- merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Who we're looking for
- -Professional registration with GPhC
- -BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
- -Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care,
- community or hospital pharmacy
- -Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective
- merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges
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.