Pharmacy Technician

Job description

Job responsibilities

- Support practice clinical pharmacists and practice clinical teams to provide a safe and effective repeat prescribing service.

- Comply with legal and professional requirements and with safe systems of work for re-authorising repeat prescriptions.

- Co-ordinate medication review appointments and any changes of medication as advised by the clinical team.

- Liaise with pharmacies on the supply of prescribed drugs, alert clinicians of any supply issues and forward recommendations of alternatives.

- Medicines reconciliation post discharge and on other transfers of care.

- Bring queries to clinical team to include under or over usage.

- Day to day handling of prescription queries within area of own competence.

- Delivery of training and development to practice administrative staff who process repeat prescription requests to support improved co-ordination and effective pharmacy administration. Use and maintain information reporting systems and databases relevant to the position including incident reporting, prescribing data and patient outcomes.

- Participate in practice meetings, and other meetings to improve engagement of the role and to promote issues relevant to prescribing.

- Liaise with multidisciplinary team, prescribing support team, community pharmacy and hospital pharmacy teams.

- Handle function specific information, which may be sensitive, complex or confidential and appropriately recording, transferring and/or coordinating such information in accordance with the GDPR; Caldicott Guidelines and the Confidentiality Code of Conduct.

- Be responsible for the organisation and planning of own workload to meet set deadlines.

- Utilise GP practice clinical systems to conduct prescribing audits.

- Support the clinical pharmacists/technicians and practices with the work required under Northeast and North Cumbria ICB

- Support the clinical pharmacists in shared care monitoring and processes.

- In collaboration with practice Clinical Pharmacists and GP Prescribing Leads ensure that all major MHRA drug alerts, where appropriate and within levels of competence, are acted upon within practices over an appropriate time frame and to advise on any medication changes that occur as a result

- Undertake training and development, to ensure the required knowledge and skills for practice based work.

- Escalate problems or issues to line manager that requires additional support or input.

- Carry out other duties which are appropriate to the skills and competencies of the post holder and grade of the post as the priorities of the service change.

- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with GP practices, staff and other healthcare professionals.

- The post holder will 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 practice 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 candour are observed and upheld.

- 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Society and have a BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences.
• Evidence of continuing Professional development
• Good IT Skills
• Excellent communications skills (verbal and written)
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Ability to work safely under pressure
• Work as part of a team
• Have excellent time management and workload prioritisation skills
• Understand clinical governance and risk management
• Awareness of current medicines Management Agendas
• Knowledge of audit and research
• Demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
• Self-Motivation
• Adaptable
• Ability and willingness to travel to all practices within the Primary Care Network
• In date DBS check
• Safeguarding adult and children training
• Immunisation status
• UK Work Permit (if required)

Desirable

• Medicines Reconciliation Certificate / Equivalent
• Previous work within patient facing role
• Understanding of GMS contracts and Medicines Management Incentive Schemes
• Experience of NHS IT Systems.

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

South Grange Medical Centre

Address

Coatham Surgery

Coatham Road

Redcar

Cleveland

TS10 1SR

Employer's website

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