Pharmacy Technician

Job description

Job responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Assist patients with complex day to day medication queries and provide advice to patients and staff under supervision
• Deal with drug alerts and put structured plans in place to prepare alternatives when supply issues occur
• Manage weekly medication prescriptions for pharmacies
• Reconcile medication on hospital discharges
• Process hospital letters with medication requests/amendments
• Audit patients with high levels of medications and look at ways to improve polypharmacy
• Add/amend medication on patient records and ensuring processes are followed to allow relevant checks to be made by clinicians
• Help ensure that the Administration and all clinicians are prescribing in the most cost effective way and provide them with up to date information on most cost effective products and ways to do this.
• Assist in annual prescribing/medication projects set out by NHS England and Sussex ICB including Medicines Optimisation Incentive Scheme (MOIS) cost containment projects
• Monitor Drug and Device alerts from the MHRA
• Up keep of patient records to ensure prescriptions are written in line with MEP (Medicines, Ethics and Practice) & GPhC (General Pharmaceutical Council) guidance.
• Conduct audits to increase patient safety and monitoring
• Conduct clinical sessions working with patients to review or titrate their medication either face-to-face or on the phone
• Liaising with local pharmacies, community nurse teams, local hospitals, local care homes and PCN Pharmacy team
• Responding to the needs and wants of the business to ensure excellent patient care
• Work autonomously to identify shortfalls in medication safety
• Undertake projects using their skills to aid both the patients and the Practice
• Maintain accurate patient records and ensure confidentiality is upheld at all times

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Essential Qualifications
• - Pharmacy Technician (NVQ level 3 or equivalent)
• - Good standard of general education, including maths and english
• - Experience within a pharmacy, dispensary of preferrably General Practice
• - Strong understanding of medication prescribing, administration practices and protocols
• - Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, with a focus on patient care

Desirable

• Desirable Qualifications
• - Experience of using TPP SystmOne clinical system
• - Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment while maintaining attention to detail
• - Proficiency in using pharmacy software systems and technology

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

Henfield Medical Centre

Address

Deer Park

Henfield

West Sussex

BN5 9JQ

Employer's website

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