Job summary
Would you
like to join a dynamic and innovative PCN Clinical Pharmacy Team?
Do you
want to be part of our vision to create healthier communities?
Are you
passionate about collaborating with multidisciplinary networks to promote new
ways of delivering the best possible care?
We are seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic Primary Care
Network (PCN) Pharmacy Technician to join our team and contribute to the
delivery of our vision, mission, and values. This is an exciting opportunity to
become part of the highly valued and supportive Clinical Pharmacy Team within Harness
South PCN, working collaboratively alongside our current PCN Pharmacy
Technician.
The successful candidate will play a key role within the
PCN, providing expert pharmaceutical support while participating in both local
Harness initiatives and national programs to innovate care delivery and enhance
patient outcomes.
What We Offer:
The practices place a high value on the expertise of the
Harness Clinical Pharmacy Team, recognising this role as pivotal to the ongoing
development of primary care services. This is a unique opportunity to thrive in
the dynamic and evolving environment of primary care.
While we welcome candidates with diverse experiences,
comprehensive support and training will be provided to facilitate professional
development and success in this role.
Join us in shaping the future of primary care and making a
meaningful impact on the health and well-being of the local population.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- Safe and Effective Prescribing: Assist practice teams in optimising safe and cost-effective prescribing practices, including actioning drug safety alerts and monitoring high-risk medicines.
- Collaboration and Support: Work closely with practice teams to implement efficient repeat prescribing systems and perform medicines reconciliation.
- Clinical Support: Support Clinical Pharmacists in delivering medication reviews to manage patients with long-term conditions and complex polypharmacy, including within General Practice, care homes, and patients' homes.
About us
Harness PCNs provides medical services to a population of
140,000 patients residing across Brent in Neasden, Harlesden, Wembley,
Willesden and Kingsbury. Our 20 GP practices work across two Primary Care
Networks (PCNs).
Harness South PCN provides general and extended medical
services to the patients residing across Neasden, Stonebridge, Harlesden,
Willesden and Park Royal. Harness South PCN consists of a team of 10 practices:
- Brentfield Medical Centre
- Church End Medical Centre
- Forty Willows Surgery
- Freuchen Medical Centre
- Hilltop Medical Practice
- Oxgate Gardens Surgery
- Park Royal Medical Practice
- Roundwood Park Medical Centre
- The Stonebridge Practice
- Walm Lane Surgery
Our mission is to transform primary care delivery in a sustainable
way by a commitment to excellence in everything we do and by working in
partnership with our patients and our communities to make a positive impact on
their health and wellbeing.
If you wish to have this unique opportunity to challenge yourself in the new role as a PCN Pharmacy Technician, we would love to hear from you. We are committed to recruiting the best person for the job.
For further information (no recruitment agencies), please contact:
- Radhika Sanghani, Senior PCN Clinical Pharmacist - r.sanghani@nhs.net or
- Nitesh Kerai, Senior PCN Clinical Pharmacist - nitesh.kerai@nhs.net
All shortlisted applications will involve a single stage face-to-face interview in late February 2025/early March 2025.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Role overview
The Harness South PCN Pharmacy Technician will be joining a
dynamic and innovative Clinical Pharmacy team which has been established for several
years and includes pre-registration pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. This
is an excellent opportunity to be part of a valued team within Harness South
PCN. Whilst the post holder will be bringing their own experience to the role,
they will receive support and training in their development.
The Harness South PCN Pharmacy Technician will be joining
several aspirational GP practice teams working across a maximum of three to
four practices. In addition, the post holder will have the opportunity to
collaborate in the wider Harness work streams promoting new ways of delivering
the best possible care for our local population.
The Harness South PCN Pharmacy Technician will provide
expertise in clinical pharmacy as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing
care for patients within General Practice and community sites; including care
homes and patients homes where required. Experience in General Practice would
be desirable but is not essential.
You will need to be
self-motivated and work autonomously, have excellent written and verbal
communication skills and be able to provide support in the delivery of safe,
effective and efficient systems for repeat prescribing. You will be supporting
the Clinical Pharmacists in the management of long terms conditions, medicines
optimisation and reducing medicines waste. The successful candidate will be
expected to work flexibly Monday to Friday at practice sites and sometimes
remotely and travel between named practices, patient residence and meetings in
line with the Harness lone worker policy.
Key relationships
- Clinical Pharmacy Team
- Clinical Directors and
Harness Board
- General Practices
- Harness Multidisciplinary
Teams
- Integrated Care Pathway Team
- Care Home teams
- Community Pharmacy PCN Leads
and Teams
- Hospital Pharmacy teams
(London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, Imperial College Healthcare
NHS Trust, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust)
- NWL ICB
Medicines Optimisation Team
Job summaryThe main responsibilities include but are not limited to
patient facing and remote consultations:
- Provision of professional
support and clinical expertise to the general practice teams and Clinical
Pharmacists with regards to medication queries, prescribing issues and systems
for safer prescribing
- Support Clinical Pharmacists
with Clinical Medication Reviews and Structured Medication Reviews including
Care Home and Domiciliary Reviews
- To
support practice teams in achieving local medicines optimisation schemes and
QOF
- Support practice teams in the
delivery of long-term condition clinics
- Medicines Reconciliation
- Participate in the delivery
of quality improvement audits
- Medicines information to
practice staff and patients
- Signposting whilst addressing
both public and social care needs of patients
Training will be provided on all relevant policies and
procedures related to the role including mandatory training in basic life
support, safeguarding and infection control.
The role is essential to improving the quality of care of
patients and the productive management of workload in practices. The successful
candidate will be passionate about achieving excellence in care and will be
supported to fulfil their job description.
Key priorities
- Provide professional input to practice teams working to
support in implementation of systems for safer repeat prescribing and medicines
reconciliation
- Liaise with providers including pharmacists in the
community and hospital settings to ensure accurate and effective medication
management
- Provide pharmaceutical support to practices such that
medication related processes are reviewed, best practice principles applied,
and evidence-based values are embedded in all activities
- Ensure optimum benefit for prescribed medication
through high levels of concordance achieved by support for patients and carers
- Support the Clinical
Pharmacists in providing direct care to patients with long-term conditions and
other clinical areas
- Support with care of complex
patients in their own homes or in nursing or residential accommodation as part
of a multidisciplinary team
- Utilise the Pharmacy
Technician skill set to ensure NHS resources are used in a cost-effective
manner to maximise outcomes whilst reducing wastage
- Provide
professional leadership on matters relating to medicine optimisation and quality
improvement
Clinical duties- Apply clinical expertise in
supporting practice teams to deliver Clinical Level 3 Medication Reviews/
Structured Medication Reviews (SMR) face-to-face and remotely to deliver high
quality patient facing services that are centred on and tailored to each
individual patients needs
- Pro-actively and
prospectively work alongside Clinical Pharmacists to reduce inappropriate
polypharmacy and over-diagnosis through systematic, evidence-based
de-prescribing
- Support
practices with achievement of QOF and local medicines optimisation scheme targets
- Promote the principles of
public health; educate and motivate patients to make healthy lifestyle choices
and access services designed to assist health improvement (e.g. smoking
cessation, dietetics, rehabilitation)
- Participate in MDT meetings
to ensure best possible patient care
- Provide professional
telephone/ email advice and support to patients and their carers
- Reconcile the medications of
patients whose care is transferred back to primary care in a timely and
effective manner, liaising with patients and community pharmacies to ensure
patients receive appropriate medication post-discharge
- Interface between community,
hospital and primary care pharmacy colleagues as patients move between care
settings
- Maintain full and complete
records of all patient contacts using appropriate clinical templates and SNOMED
coding
- Provide feedback and seek
advice from the primary care team for patients where the Pharmacy Technician
has clinical concerns around competence to safely manage their medications
Medicine management and repeat prescribing
- Review the ongoing need for
medication and make suitable recommendations to the Clinical Pharmacists and
GPs
- Manage
acute requests for medication in line with NWL ICB formulary and local agreed
standard operating procedures
- Work with practices to ensure
safe and effective systems for the repeat prescribing of medication making
recommendations on the reduction of potential wastage
- Set up systems to ensure the
effective and continuous supply of medication to high risk patients
- Implement changes to
medicines in line with MHRA alerts, and other local or national guidance
- Support practices with the
implementation of appropriate NICE guidance in line with local agreements
- Support practices to comply
with local medicine management guidelines
- Assess and counsel patients
on effective techniques required for the use of medication delivered by devices
- Assist with discharge
communications, letters, scans, emails and other correspondence in a timely
manner
- Ensuring medication records
are kept up to date with records of interventions from within and from outside
the practice
- Take monitoring observations such
as blood pressure, peak flow rate, urine dip stick and record in patient notes
Audit, research and risk stratification- Engage with the Brent
Care/Harness risk stratification procedure to identify high risk patients and
those at risk of non-elective admission to hospital
- Participate in audit
activities in practices and with groups of practices to optimise the use of
prescribing resources. Feedback results of
clinical audit activities in areas agreed with GPs, implement recommendations
and complete full audit/PDSA cycle
- Engage with research
activities being undertaken in the Harness Education and Research Hub
- Proactively identify and
recall patients due for medication review ensuring all appropriate monitoring
tests are performed
- Analyse, interpret and present
prescribing information at practice and population level to support effective
decision-making and change in evidence-based clinical practice
Other duties- Support the development of
integrated care in Brent
- Adhere to relevant Harness
policies and procedures including:
- Information governance
- Equal Opportunities
and Diversity
- Safeguarding
- Communications
- Lone worker
- Health and safety
- Infection control
- Support public health
campaigns at national, Brent and local levels
- Work with practices to ensure
full compliance with Care Quality Commission standards for safe and effective
care
- Participate as a member of
the Harness multidisciplinary team
- Participate in professional
development activities
An enhanced DBS check will be carried out for all successful
candidates.
The post holder will be expected to maintain his or her own
professional indemnity in addition to the Clinical Negligence Scheme for
General Practice (CNSGP) and supply evidence of this to the employer. It is the
responsibility of the post holder to ensure their indemnity covers the scope of
the work being undertaken.
The post holder will be expected to build their skills and competencies over time. This job description is to assist the jobholder to know what his/her main duties are but is not exhaustive. This may be amended from time to time without change to the level of responsibility appropriate to the grade of the post in consultation with the post holder whose agreement shall not be unreasonably withheld.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Role overview
The Harness South PCN Pharmacy Technician will be joining a
dynamic and innovative Clinical Pharmacy team which has been established for several
years and includes pre-registration pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. This
is an excellent opportunity to be part of a valued team within Harness South
PCN. Whilst the post holder will be bringing their own experience to the role,
they will receive support and training in their development.
The Harness South PCN Pharmacy Technician will be joining
several aspirational GP practice teams working across a maximum of three to
four practices. In addition, the post holder will have the opportunity to
collaborate in the wider Harness work streams promoting new ways of delivering
the best possible care for our local population.
The Harness South PCN Pharmacy Technician will provide
expertise in clinical pharmacy as part of a multi-disciplinary team providing
care for patients within General Practice and community sites; including care
homes and patients homes where required. Experience in General Practice would
be desirable but is not essential.
You will need to be
self-motivated and work autonomously, have excellent written and verbal
communication skills and be able to provide support in the delivery of safe,
effective and efficient systems for repeat prescribing. You will be supporting
the Clinical Pharmacists in the management of long terms conditions, medicines
optimisation and reducing medicines waste. The successful candidate will be
expected to work flexibly Monday to Friday at practice sites and sometimes
remotely and travel between named practices, patient residence and meetings in
line with the Harness lone worker policy.
Key relationships
- Clinical Pharmacy Team
- Clinical Directors and
Harness Board
- General Practices
- Harness Multidisciplinary
Teams
- Integrated Care Pathway Team
- Care Home teams
- Community Pharmacy PCN Leads
and Teams
- Hospital Pharmacy teams
(London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, Imperial College Healthcare
NHS Trust, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust)
- NWL ICB
Medicines Optimisation Team
Job summaryThe main responsibilities include but are not limited to
patient facing and remote consultations:
- Provision of professional
support and clinical expertise to the general practice teams and Clinical
Pharmacists with regards to medication queries, prescribing issues and systems
for safer prescribing
- Support Clinical Pharmacists
with Clinical Medication Reviews and Structured Medication Reviews including
Care Home and Domiciliary Reviews
- To
support practice teams in achieving local medicines optimisation schemes and
QOF
- Support practice teams in the
delivery of long-term condition clinics
- Medicines Reconciliation
- Participate in the delivery
of quality improvement audits
- Medicines information to
practice staff and patients
- Signposting whilst addressing
both public and social care needs of patients
Training will be provided on all relevant policies and
procedures related to the role including mandatory training in basic life
support, safeguarding and infection control.
The role is essential to improving the quality of care of
patients and the productive management of workload in practices. The successful
candidate will be passionate about achieving excellence in care and will be
supported to fulfil their job description.
Key priorities
- Provide professional input to practice teams working to
support in implementation of systems for safer repeat prescribing and medicines
reconciliation
- Liaise with providers including pharmacists in the
community and hospital settings to ensure accurate and effective medication
management
- Provide pharmaceutical support to practices such that
medication related processes are reviewed, best practice principles applied,
and evidence-based values are embedded in all activities
- Ensure optimum benefit for prescribed medication
through high levels of concordance achieved by support for patients and carers
- Support the Clinical
Pharmacists in providing direct care to patients with long-term conditions and
other clinical areas
- Support with care of complex
patients in their own homes or in nursing or residential accommodation as part
of a multidisciplinary team
- Utilise the Pharmacy
Technician skill set to ensure NHS resources are used in a cost-effective
manner to maximise outcomes whilst reducing wastage
- Provide
professional leadership on matters relating to medicine optimisation and quality
improvement
Clinical duties- Apply clinical expertise in
supporting practice teams to deliver Clinical Level 3 Medication Reviews/
Structured Medication Reviews (SMR) face-to-face and remotely to deliver high
quality patient facing services that are centred on and tailored to each
individual patients needs
- Pro-actively and
prospectively work alongside Clinical Pharmacists to reduce inappropriate
polypharmacy and over-diagnosis through systematic, evidence-based
de-prescribing
- Support
practices with achievement of QOF and local medicines optimisation scheme targets
- Promote the principles of
public health; educate and motivate patients to make healthy lifestyle choices
and access services designed to assist health improvement (e.g. smoking
cessation, dietetics, rehabilitation)
- Participate in MDT meetings
to ensure best possible patient care
- Provide professional
telephone/ email advice and support to patients and their carers
- Reconcile the medications of
patients whose care is transferred back to primary care in a timely and
effective manner, liaising with patients and community pharmacies to ensure
patients receive appropriate medication post-discharge
- Interface between community,
hospital and primary care pharmacy colleagues as patients move between care
settings
- Maintain full and complete
records of all patient contacts using appropriate clinical templates and SNOMED
coding
- Provide feedback and seek
advice from the primary care team for patients where the Pharmacy Technician
has clinical concerns around competence to safely manage their medications
Medicine management and repeat prescribing
- Review the ongoing need for
medication and make suitable recommendations to the Clinical Pharmacists and
GPs
- Manage
acute requests for medication in line with NWL ICB formulary and local agreed
standard operating procedures
- Work with practices to ensure
safe and effective systems for the repeat prescribing of medication making
recommendations on the reduction of potential wastage
- Set up systems to ensure the
effective and continuous supply of medication to high risk patients
- Implement changes to
medicines in line with MHRA alerts, and other local or national guidance
- Support practices with the
implementation of appropriate NICE guidance in line with local agreements
- Support practices to comply
with local medicine management guidelines
- Assess and counsel patients
on effective techniques required for the use of medication delivered by devices
- Assist with discharge
communications, letters, scans, emails and other correspondence in a timely
manner
- Ensuring medication records
are kept up to date with records of interventions from within and from outside
the practice
- Take monitoring observations such
as blood pressure, peak flow rate, urine dip stick and record in patient notes
Audit, research and risk stratification- Engage with the Brent
Care/Harness risk stratification procedure to identify high risk patients and
those at risk of non-elective admission to hospital
- Participate in audit
activities in practices and with groups of practices to optimise the use of
prescribing resources. Feedback results of
clinical audit activities in areas agreed with GPs, implement recommendations
and complete full audit/PDSA cycle
- Engage with research
activities being undertaken in the Harness Education and Research Hub
- Proactively identify and
recall patients due for medication review ensuring all appropriate monitoring
tests are performed
- Analyse, interpret and present
prescribing information at practice and population level to support effective
decision-making and change in evidence-based clinical practice
Other duties- Support the development of
integrated care in Brent
- Adhere to relevant Harness
policies and procedures including:
- Information governance
- Equal Opportunities
and Diversity
- Safeguarding
- Communications
- Lone worker
- Health and safety
- Infection control
- Support public health
campaigns at national, Brent and local levels
- Work with practices to ensure
full compliance with Care Quality Commission standards for safe and effective
care
- Participate as a member of
the Harness multidisciplinary team
- Participate in professional
development activities
An enhanced DBS check will be carried out for all successful
candidates.
The post holder will be expected to maintain his or her own
professional indemnity in addition to the Clinical Negligence Scheme for
General Practice (CNSGP) and supply evidence of this to the employer. It is the
responsibility of the post holder to ensure their indemnity covers the scope of
the work being undertaken.
The post holder will be expected to build their skills and competencies over time. This job description is to assist the jobholder to know what his/her main duties are but is not exhaustive. This may be amended from time to time without change to the level of responsibility appropriate to the grade of the post in consultation with the post holder whose agreement shall not be unreasonably withheld.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in community or hospital pharmacy
Desirable
- Minimum of 2 years post registration experience
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in community or hospital pharmacy
Desirable
- Minimum of 2 years post registration experience
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
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).
