Pharmacy Technician Roxton

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

To work within your professional boundaries as a registered Pharmacy Technician as part of the multi-disciplinary team within general practice. Your role is patient facing to support medicines optimisation and improved prescribing practice, patient care and deliver the practice prescribing agenda.

Job Summary

You will help patients to get the best from their medicines, operating within clear protocols and guidance, reducing clinical risk and waste.

You will facilitate the smooth running of the repeat prescribing service with support from senior colleagues on complex matters and collaboration with the reception / care navigation team to resolve straightforward prescribing queries.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Through patient facing/supporting roles ensure effective medicines use by shared decision-making with patients.

Work with the Practice multi-disciplinary team to support medicine optimisation tasks through effective medicine administration (e.g., checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews, medicines reconciliation, efficient ordering and return process and reduction of waste.

Support medication reviews and reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronise medicines for patient transfers between care settings.

Provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients where competent to do so on aspects such as lifestyle advice, service information and help tackle health inequalities.

Supervise practice reception teams in sorting general prescription requests to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.

Take a central role in the clinical aspects of share care protocols and liaising with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients.

Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.

Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits.

Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings, through clinical audits (e.g., use of antibiotics), quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services.

Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems across the practices with a range of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and implementing Electronic Prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines.

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

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.

Management of workload and personal development

Act on own initiative in prioritising and managing workload, in respect of clinical, managerial, and administrative areas, as necessary.

Maintain own personal and professional development as agreed at your annual review.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Enrolled in, undertaking, or qualified from, an approved pathway such as, (PCPEP) or (MOCH)
• Registered to the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a Pharmacy Technician
• BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical development
• Evidence of continued professional development (CPD)
• Relevant advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of Primary Care Networks, General Practice, and evidence-based medicine.
• Awareness of GP budget-management and funding systems to enable GP clinical pharmacist services
• Pharmacy law, ethics, and current legislation
• An appreciation of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for the improvement of prescribing
• An excellent practical understanding of data protection and confidentiality

Experience

Essential

• To deliver outcomes based on set targets
• Liaise with other colleagues to promote the success of the PCNs and and its Partner organisations in primary care
• Work to perpetuate a culture that is transparent and open
• Effectively manages allocated resources
• Manages time effectively, not being distracted by pressures, retains focus, and delivers to deadlines
• Awareness of and well-developed IT skills to facilitate quick and confident learning of new systems to support the management of patients in a primary care setting (including Microsoft packages)
• Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data
• Works accurately and identifies errors quickly
• Working well with others to deliver goals
• Being motivated to deliver excellent services to support Primary Care in our region
• Is working under appropriate clinical supervision to ensure safe, effective, and efficient use of medicines
• Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community, or hospital pharmacy

Other

Essential

• Access to transport and ability to drive across the locality on a regular basis, including lone visits to patients in their own homes

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

Yorkshire Health Partners Ltd

Address

The Roxton Practice

Pelham Road

Immingham

DN40 1JW

Employer's website

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