Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
We are seeking an enthusiastic and forward-thinking pharmacy
technician to join our like-minded PCN. We endeavour to find the best pharmacy
talent to join our team. The successful pharmacy technician candidate will play
an important role in complementing our clinical pharmacists and other members
of the PCN multi-disciplinary team. This is an evolving job role with huge
scope for development as we expand our PCN team further over the years.
It is a requirement of the role to be registered with the General
Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacy Technician. We are seeking a pharmacy
technician preferably with previous experience of working in primary care.
The Pharmacy Technician role is a new development within our PCN and we expect
the successful candidate to contribute to the delivery of a comprehensive
primary care medicines management system acting on current best practice /
service change requests from our clinical commissioning group. The Pharmacy
Technician will be required to undertake activities predominantly at a practice
level, but will need to be flexible to work to the wider demands of the
network. For example, the role will involve liaising with community pharmacy
teams to highlight and manage problems identified by community pharmacy, such
as medicines waste.
An understanding of primary care operations and use of SystmOne would be an
advantage but is not essential.
Main Duties:
The post holder will:
Support the role of PCN Clinical Pharmacists in the delivery of
clinical pharmacy services
Perform medicines improvement work to maximise safe,
cost-effective best practice in prescribing under the supervision of the GP or
Clinical Pharmacist
Improve the use of
medicines and help patients with medication adherence.
Assist with medication safety monitoring systems (e.g. high-risk
drugs)
Liaise with clinicians and administrative staff to resolve
medicine-related queries
Monitor practice prescribing and adherence to practice, local and
national prescribing policies
Improve service and quality through mechanisms such as audits
To
support with the requirements as outlines in the PCN DES, including but not
limited to providing additional hours for Extended Access.
Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility:
Operational
Support the Clinical Pharmacists in Structured Medication Reviews
(e.g. organise necessary monitoring tests before SMR and identification of appropriate patients)
Undertake patient-supporting roles to ensure effective medicines
use through shared decision-making
Support medicine reconciliation of patients whose care is
transferred back into primary care in a timely and effective manner liaising
with patients and other providers to ensure patients receive appropriate
medication on discharge
Liaise
with PCN dispensaries and community pharmacies to aid effective medicines
reconciliation
Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective
medicine administration, supporting medication reviews and medicines
reconciliation post-discharge and other transfers of care
Assist with the development and implementation of systems to
ensure safe and effective monitoring of high-risk medication
Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce
inappropriate antibiotic prescribing
Assist Clinical Pharmacists with any searches, data collection,
medicine safety tasks
Work with pharmacy team to develop safe, effective and efficient
systems for repeat prescribing
Increase uptake of
Electronic Repeat Dispensing
Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF and locally
commissioned enhanced services
Review and analyse prescribing data across the network using
available tools producing reports and feedback for practices
Undertake, participate and share outcomes of clinical audits to
facilitate improvement
Implement changes to medication that result from CAS/MHRA alerts,
product withdrawal and other local/national guidance
Collaborating Working Relationships
Work collaboratively with the PCN team
Develop relationships and work closely with community, hospital
and MMT pharmacy colleagues and the wider health system
Liaise with other stakeholders for the collective benefit of
patients
Participate in practice meetings, patient participation groups and
other meetings to improve engagement with the role of pharmacy technician
Practice Targets
Support practices in achieving QOF
To be aware of the prescribing budget and identify and action
areas for cost improvement
Work with PCN team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC
standards where medicines are involved
PCN responsibilities:
Identify,
report and or process any issues of concern relating to safeguarding and
quality of care arising from working with patients and referring onwards as
appropriate.
Participate
in the induction and training of new members of staff and contribute to PCN
development.
Professional
development:
Work with your line manager
to undertake continual personal and professional development, taking an active
part in reviewing and developing the roles and responsibilities.
Adhere to organisational
policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working,
information governance, and health and safety.
Undertake the CPPE Primary Care Education Pathway
Work with your line manager
to access regular clinical supervision, to enable you to deal effectively
with the difficult issues that people present.
Miscellaneous:
Work as part of the team to
seek feedback, continually improve the service and contribute to business
planning.
Undertake any tasks
consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that
work is delivered in a timely and effective manner.
Duties may vary from time to time, without changing the general
character of the post or the level of responsibility.