PCN Pharmacy Technician

Job responsibilities

As PCN Pharmacy Technician, you will

Undertake patient facing conversations to promote understanding and effective medicines use, through shared decision-making.

Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including supply synchronisation and administration support (inhaler technique, formulation choice).

Undertake medicines reconciliation for care home residents and elderly patients recently discharged from hospital.

Visit care homes to optimise medicine safety and improve patient outcomes.

Assist in the audit & management of patients with shared care protocols & high-risk medications.

Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.

Provide advice to patients and multidisciplinary teams within professional limits of expertise and refer to pharmacist or GP when appropriate.

Attend the prescribing committee meetings & develop PCN policies, prescribing protocols and standard operating procedures.

Support the PCN Pharmacy Team to implement the DES and IIF annual targets through quality improvement, educational presentations and multidisciplinary working.

Implement efficient ordering and reduce medication wastage.

Link with community pharmacies to communicate supply issues and solutions.

Promote electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD), online ordering and proxy ordering processes for care homes.

Link with other pharmacy professionals and members of the multi-disciplinary team to support integration across health and social care.

Support staff on secondments and training rotations from other organisations.

Support prescription teams, deliver audits and training and lead change to improve services across the practices.

Deliver changes in prescribing practice according to QIPP agenda, QOF, PCN DES and other enhanced services.

Assist in transportation of vaccine for vaccination campaigns according to national and local protocols.

Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity. The postholder 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

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, care homes, community or hospital pharmacy

Desirable

• Experience of Quality Improvement and Audit

Skills and Competencies

Essential

• Excellent communication skills
• Computer literate with an ability to use Microsoft office packages Ability to effectively manage allocated resources and prioritise own workload to meet strict deadlines
• Influencing and negotiating skills
• Attention to detail, able to work accurately and to identify errors
• Excellent time keeping and prioritisation skills

Desirable

• Computer literate with an ability to use the required GP clinical systems

Attributes

Essential

• Works effectively independently and as a member of a team
• Flexible approach to meet service needs
• Self-motivated and proactive
• Continued commitment to improve skills and ability in new areas of work
• Independently mobile to access all PCN sites, Car Driver/Clean License

Knowledge

Essential

• An appreciation of the NHS agenda and Government targets Good clinical pharmacy knowledge including terminology An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for the improvement Knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law and ethics and current legislation

Desirable

• Knowledge of Primary Care including PCNs, General Practice and community pharmacy

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional registration with GPhC
• 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).