Job responsibilities
Post Overview
The Pharmacy Technician will be part of the Primary Care Network
(PCN) managing the care of people registered with both The Three Spires Medical
Practice and Lander Medical Practice.
Our aim is to provide exemplary patient care; finding innovative
solutions in general practice to deliver the best care we can to our patients.
The successful Pharmacy Technician will play an important role in
complementing our clinical pharmacists, community pharmacists and other members
of the PCN multi-disciplinary team and will support the PCN Clinical
Pharmacists in the delivery of clinical pharmacy services. 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 lead improvements to maximise
safe, cost effective best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of
patient care. The post holder will help patients to get the best from their
medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving
repeat prescribing processes in General Practice, including promotion of repeat
dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce
wasted medicines.
In addition, the post holder will be responsible for
encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of
medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and promoting good
practice in line with therapeutic developments. This will involve assisting the
PCN in achieving national requirements, NICE implementation and utilisation of
medicines optimisation initiatives.
It is a requirement of the role to be registered with the General
Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacy Technician.
Key Responsibilities
Clinical
Undertake patient facing and patient supporting
roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making
conversations with patients.
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.
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
Support the Clinical Pharmacist in Structure Medication Reviews (SMR)
i.e. organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR
Provide expertise to address both the public health and social care
needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in
tackling local health inequalities.
Manage shared care protocols and liaise with
Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients.
Support initiatives for antimicrobial
stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.
Technical and administrative
Support the PCN multi-disciplinary team to
ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.
Implement efficient ordering and return processes and reducing
medication wastage.
Provide training and support on the legal, safe
and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the
Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
Promotion of Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD)
and online ordering
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.
Support practice reception teams in streaming
general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to
review the more clinically complex requests.
Support the implementation of national
prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other
primary care settings.
Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF
and locally commissioned enhanced services
Support the PCN in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC
requirements
Collaborative
Working Relationships
Liaise with clinicians and administrative staff
to resolve medicine related queries.
Work collaboratively with the PCN team.
Develop relationships and work closely with
community, hospital and MMT pharmacy colleagues and the wider health system.
Liaise with other stakeholders for the
collective benefit of patients.
Participate in Practice meetings, patient
participation groups and other meetings to improve engagement with the role of
the Pharmacy Technician.
