Cardiovascular Primary Prevention PCN Pharmacy Technician

Job description

Job responsibilities

Nottingham West PCN is a group of GP practices (12) that are committed to work together to add additional services and roles to support the workload in GP practices. We cover 108,865 patients within our locality. Our network works closely with all practices and other key members of the network including pharmacies, Citizens Advice, Voluntary Sector and Local District and Borough Councils. Our aim is to continually improve services to patients utilising all available resources.

Our PCN work in partnership with PICS to provide a host organisation for employment contracts, HR and corporate support. The day-to-day work is situated in the GP practices and the everyday line management is undertaken by staff within the Primary Care Network.

JOB PURPOSE

Pharmacy Technicians play an important role, complementing Clinical Pharmacists, Community Pharmacists, and other members of the PCN multi-disciplinary team. Pharmacy Technicians are different to Clinical Pharmacists as they are not able to prescribe or make clinical decisions, instead working under supervision to ensure effective and efficient use of medicines.

The purpose of the role is to work within a multi-disciplinary team that focuses on Cardiology Primary and Secondary prevention. The post holder will work with colleagues to support the identification of patients with undiagnosed Hypertension, Atrial Fibrillation and Hyperlipidaemia.

The post holder will support the team to maximise safe, cost effective best practice in prescribing and supporting patients with lifestyle changes to improve the quality of patient care. The post holder will also help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching medications under agreed and approved protocols.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical

• Support the Clinical Pharmacist in identification of clinically appropriate patients to be under the cardiology service.
• Carry out medicines optimisation reviews and utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
• Undertake telephone consultations and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
• Support patients with lifestyle advice, smoking cessation and obesity management.
• Support the clinical pharmacist around identification and ordering of cardiology tests, including blood tests.
• Support the clinical pharmacist to ensure all patients are followed up in a clinically appropriate manner.

Technical and Administration

• Support the PCN pharmacist cardiology team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.
• Implement and be responsible for efficient identification of suitable patients and communication to patients around the need for referral into the cardiology service.
• Implement efficient patient recall and follow up processes.

General Duties

• Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity. The post holder must be aware of and committed to the Equality and Diversity policies of the appointing GP Federation and comply with all the requirements of these policies and actively promote Equality and Diversity issues relevant to the post.
• Ensure the principles of openness, transparency and candor are observed and upheld in all working practices.
• The post holder will have, or acquire through training provided by the organisation, the appropriate level of safeguarding and knowledge, skills and practice required for the post and be aware of and comply with the organisations safeguarding protection policies and procedures.
• Ensure that any infection prevention and control issues are reported to the line manager/Infection Prevention and Control.

Personal/Professional Development

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, directly or under supervision.
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
• Effectively manage own time, workload, and resources.

For more information, please see the supporting documents.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Qualifications

Essential

• Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
• Please provide your registration number of your GPhC professional registration.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.

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

Primary Integrated Community Services

Address

Unit H4 Ash Tree Court

Nottingham Business Park

Nottingham

Nottinghamshire

NG8 6PY

Employer's website

http://picsnhs.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)