NVQ Level 3 Pharmacy Technician

Job description

Job responsibilities

Role responsibilities

1) Strategic Alignment

To support the identification and delivery of the elements of the agreement of funding allocation for the practice pharmacist and support to the GP practice.

To support the practice pharmacist to ensure that processes are in place for the effective dissemination of prescribing-related policies, guidelines and alerts e.g. LMSG guidance.

To support the identification and sharing of best practice and ensure these are reflected in working practices and plans.

To operate in a sensitive environment.

To support the pharmacist by preparing and delivering performance reports/briefings for the practice.

Be responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of agreed projects, ensuring inputs are on time, to quality standards in a cost-effective manner.

Demonstrate effective stakeholder engagement across a multidisciplinary team and organisations

To compete any mandatory training associated with the additional roles funding for pharmacy technicians.

2) Responsibilities of patient care

To contribute to the development of and to implement patient medication change programmes within the GP practice and associated care homes to increase value for money and/or improve quality in prescribing.

To implement agreed medicines support programmes/services in line with practice priorities and identified patient needs.

To work with the practice pharmacist and support technical medication reviews; this may include domiciliary visits to support concordance and implement measures to optimise medicines use and identify/reduce waste.

Provide verbal and written advice, information, and support to patients to support improved medicines compliance and medicines waste reduction and refer to practice pharmacist as required.

To investigate, identify and advise the practice on additional prescribing actions to ensure prescribing spend is within budget.

To manage and deal with multiple complex problem-solving issues involving all aspects of medicine management and quality concurrently, using own knowledge and skills within a framework of broad policies and guidance and being aware of own limitations and referring them to the practice pharmacist when appropriate.

To assist in the management of high-risk drug monitoring and patients with shared care agreements.

To be responsible for all actions and decisions, as a registered pharmacy technician in accordance with the Code of Ethics of the General Pharmaceutical Council.

3) Responsibilities for Policy and Service Development Implementation

To participate in the identification and development of and be responsible for implementation of practice medicines management and quality policies and guidelines within practice, care homes and social care in line with national and local policies and compliance with medicines related acts to improve cost effective and safe prescribing.

To ensure appropriate systems in place for medicines reconciliation for all patients transferred out of and back into the practice.

4) Responsibilities for Financial and Physical Resources

Responsible for the implementation of medicines management and optimisation changes in practices to deliver cost savings as part of the QIPP programme.

To develop and implement schemes and actions plans for the practice delivery of incentive scheme and QIPP targets, leading implementation of prescribing formulary.

Responsible for the safe use of GP practice IT system.

5) Responsibilities for Workforce Development

To regularly proactively set up and coordinate meetings in practice and present (including PowerPoint) verbal and written guidance and information regarding medicines optimisation projects and audits.

To be responsible for implementing change in practices in a variety of ways including liaising with GPs, practice staff and patients.

To establish links and effectively communicate and collaborate with external providers of healthcare and other stakeholders e.g. community pharmacies, acute hospitals and social care.

6) Responsibilities for Information Resources

To carry out manual and computerised searches of patient records and use this information to create databases, reports, and recommendations to prescribers for patient medication changes.

To interrogate, analyse and interpret complex GP practice prescribing data from the national ePACT database generating regular reports and recommendations for GP practice prescribing improvements.

To document and report all confidential patient activity carried out at practice level to provide evidence of work carried out.

7) Communication and Relationships

Develop effective networks and working relationships with other GP practices, community pharmacists, commissioners, other health and social care professionals and staff to integrate the implementation of medicines Management and optimisation development in primary care.

Provide advice and support to community pharmacies, GP practices, members of the medicines quality team and other health and social care professionals in relation to local and local national medicines management and optimisation and pharmacy developments.

8) Responsibilities for Research and Development

To implement GP practice and associated care homes and social care audit programmes and quality reporting including medicines reconciliation to ensure delivery of national and local medicines policies and standards.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NVQ level 3 Pharmacy technician course

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Warren Lane Doctors Surgery

Address

Warren Lane Surgery

Leicester Forest East

Leicester

Leicestershire

LE3 3LW

Employer's website

https://www.foresthousemedicalcentre.co.uk/homepage (Opens in a new tab)