Job summary
This opportunity to provide 12 months ofmaternity
cover will allow you to work as part of a clinical pharmacy team to deliver
care to our 70,000 patients across five 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. The clinical pharmacy team provide support to the
extended access service on a rota basis.
About us
Healthier West Wirral PCN supports a population of over 70,000 patients across 5 different Practices
including Marine Lake Medical Practice, Myrtle Group Practice, 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.