PCN Pharmacy Technician

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical

Undertaking patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.

Carrying 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.

Supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacists, and referring to the pharmacist for structured medication reviews, as required.

Providing 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.

Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with the PCN and other specialist pharmacists for more complex patients.

Supporting initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.

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.

Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation incentive schemes (e.g. medicines switches) and patient safety audits.

Monitor timely and manage the prescribing of high risk medicines, including blood tests, set up recalls and contact patients to book regular check-ups if necessary.

Technical and Administrative

Work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return processes and reducing wastage.

Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).

Provide leadership for medicines management systems across PCNs

Support practices with a range of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and implementing Electronic Prescriptions, and safe repeat prescribing systems

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.

Work with, and supervising where appropriate, practice reception and/or Prescription Clerk teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• N/A

Desirable

• Experience in working in a GP practice/primary care.

Qualifications

Essential

• Must have active GPhC registration.

Desirable

• N/A

General

Essential

• General
• Ensure that all activities are monitored and evaluated.
• Attend internal meetings as required.
• Work in accordance with PCN policies, including the equal opportunities policy and practice.
• Attend any training courses and supervision sessions as required.
• Work with due regard to the PCN Health and Safety Policy, ensuring that all practices and procedures are undertaken in accordance with issued guidelines.
• Any other duties as reasonably required
• Undertake any other appropriate duties as may reasonably be required from time to time.
• Special working conditions
• To be prepared to work flexibly if required and at different locations across the primary care network. Part of this role can be done remotely.
• Equality and Diversity
• The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice / consortium procedures and policies, and current legislation
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

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

Cam Medical PCN

Address

Lensfield Medical Practice

48 Lensfield Road

Cambridge

CB2 1EH

Employer's website

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