Job summary
The purpose of the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe,
cost-effective prescribing to improve the quality of patient
care. The post holder will help Malvern 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.
In addition, the post holder will be responsible for
encouraging the better understanding of the principles of
medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and promoting good
practice in line with therapeutic developments. This will involve assisting the
PCN in achieving national requirements, NICE implementation and utilisation of
medicines optimisation initiatives.
It is a requirement of the role to be registered
with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacy Technician and enrolled in, undertaking or qualified
from, an approved training pathway. For example, the Primary Care Pharmacy
Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH). We are seeking a Pharmacy Technician preferably with experience of working in Community/Hospital Pharmacy or
Primary Care. 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 Intergrated Care System.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
- Support
the role of PCN Clinical Pharmacists in the delivery of clinical pharmacy
services within Malvern Town PCN and Care Homes.
- 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.
- Help
identify which patients are at risk of medicines wastage, and then visit the
patients home to work with them to see what medicines they have too much of and
what medicines they frequently run out of and why this would be.
About us
Vertis Health is a fast-growing provider
of community-based healthcare services to NHS patients within South Worcestershire.
The organisation utilises the excellent clinical expertise that already resides
within the local NHS environment and harnesses it with efficient administration
pathways to provide patients with more convenient and accessible services. We
hope that by doing this we will not only deliver pathway improvements to
patients but also go some way to relieving the growing volume pressures that
are being experienced within local hospitals and GP practices.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the full job description provided and attached to the NHS Jobs advert, to better understand the job responsibilities and requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the full job description provided and attached to the NHS Jobs advert, to better understand the job responsibilities and requirements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- - Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacy Technician
- - BTEC/NVQ Level 3 Pharmacy services
- - Enrolled in, undertaking or qualified from, an approved training pathway. For example, the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH).
Knowledge
Essential
- -Knowledge and understanding of the health and social care sector
- -Knowledge of safeguarding, confidentiality and GDPR and the best practice approaches
- -Equal Opportunities and Diversity
- -Knowledge of EMIS database
- -Social and health care systems and processes
- -A working knowledge of relevant legislation including Data Protection
Experience
Essential
- -Experience of working in a Primary Care environment
- -Working within a social care/health or related environment in a delivery or front face role
- -Working with people who are vulnerable or face disadvantage
- -Working in an empathetic and empowering way
- -Understanding of prescribing and medicines management issues
- -Good clinical pharmaceutical knowledge including terminology
- -An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies to improve prescribing
- -Understanding of prescribing and medicines management issues
- -Relevant theoretical and practical knowledge of Primary Care Networks, General Practice and evidence-based medicine
- -Awareness of systems to support the management of patients in a primary care setting, delivering pharmaceutical input and support the context of pathways of care
- -Awareness of GP budgets and funding systems
- -Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- -Telecommunication skills (clear, polite telephone manner)
- -Strong IT skills
- -Ability to respond to changing needs, pressures and demands and prioritise accordingly
- -Evidence of working within a team environment
- -Maintaining boundaries and ensuring clarity and understanding of the role
- -Ability to self-manage and be creative in your approach to problem solving
- -Ability and confidence to work on own initiative
- -Use of IT systems including EMIS, Care Notes, Microsoft office, email and database systems (external and internal)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- - Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacy Technician
- - BTEC/NVQ Level 3 Pharmacy services
- - Enrolled in, undertaking or qualified from, an approved training pathway. For example, the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH).
Knowledge
Essential
- -Knowledge and understanding of the health and social care sector
- -Knowledge of safeguarding, confidentiality and GDPR and the best practice approaches
- -Equal Opportunities and Diversity
- -Knowledge of EMIS database
- -Social and health care systems and processes
- -A working knowledge of relevant legislation including Data Protection
Experience
Essential
- -Experience of working in a Primary Care environment
- -Working within a social care/health or related environment in a delivery or front face role
- -Working with people who are vulnerable or face disadvantage
- -Working in an empathetic and empowering way
- -Understanding of prescribing and medicines management issues
- -Good clinical pharmaceutical knowledge including terminology
- -An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies to improve prescribing
- -Understanding of prescribing and medicines management issues
- -Relevant theoretical and practical knowledge of Primary Care Networks, General Practice and evidence-based medicine
- -Awareness of systems to support the management of patients in a primary care setting, delivering pharmaceutical input and support the context of pathways of care
- -Awareness of GP budgets and funding systems
- -Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- -Telecommunication skills (clear, polite telephone manner)
- -Strong IT skills
- -Ability to respond to changing needs, pressures and demands and prioritise accordingly
- -Evidence of working within a team environment
- -Maintaining boundaries and ensuring clarity and understanding of the role
- -Ability to self-manage and be creative in your approach to problem solving
- -Ability and confidence to work on own initiative
- -Use of IT systems including EMIS, Care Notes, Microsoft office, email and database systems (external and internal)
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).
Additional information
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).
