Pharmacy Technician

Job description

Job responsibilities

The following are the core responsibilities of the Pharmacy Technician. There may be on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels:

a. Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.

b. Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.

c. As determined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies

d. Support in Structured Medication Reviews (SMR)

e. Provide specialist expertise, where competent, to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.

f. Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liasing with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients.

g. Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.

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

i. Support the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.

j. Implement efficient ordering and return processes and reducing medication wastage.

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

l. Promotion of Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering

m. Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the multi-disciplinary team to support integration across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and mental health.

n. Support practice reception teams in streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.

o. Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.

p. Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services

q. Supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services;

r. Support the PCN in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC requirements

s. 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 PCN and comply with all the requirements of these policies and actively promote Equality and Diversity issues relevant to the post.

t. Ensure the principles of openness, transparency and candour are observed and upheld in all working practices.

u. 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.

v. Ensure that any infection prevention and control issues are reported to the line manager/Infection Prevention and Control

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional registration with GPhC
• Meets the standard qualification and training requirements as specified by the GPhC criteria to register as a Pharmacy Technician.
• 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)
• Experience of working as a qualified registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy.

Desirable

• BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
• Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Heart of Lincoln Medical Group (HLMG)

Address

Lincoln Healthcare Partnership PCN

Lindum Business Park

Lincoln

LN6 3QX

Employer's website

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