Pharmacy Technician - Old Court House Surgery

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

The Pharmacy Technician is to undertake the following clinical responsibilities in delivering health services:

a. Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective

medicines use, through shared decisionmaking conversations with

patients

b. Conduct medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine

administration (e.g., checking inhaler technique), support medication

reviews and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation

skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their

medicines effectively.

c. Support, as determined by the PCN, medication reviews and medicines

reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronise medicines for

patient transfers between care settings and linking with local community

pharmacists.

d. 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.

e. Maintain a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaise with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients.

f. Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate

antibiotic prescribing.

g. Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive

schemes and patient safety audits.

h. Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking clinical audits (e.g., use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and the Investment and Impact Fund (IIF) objectives.

i. Attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed

j. Contribute to public health campaigns through advice or direct care.

k. Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area at all times.

Technical & administrative responsibilities:

The technical and administrative responsibilities of the Pharmacy Technician include:

a. Work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation including implementing efficient ordering and return processes and reducing wastage

b. Supervise practice reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests

c. Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems across PCNs, supporting practices with a range of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and implementing electronic prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems and timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines

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

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

f. Support delivery of QOF, IIF, incentive schemes, QIPP and other quality or cost effectiveness initiatives

g. Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner

h. Duties may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility.

i. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels.

Implement local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

Monitor practice prescribing against local, national and formulary guidelines and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed only by the hospital or subject to shared care agreements.

Work with GPs and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing.

Medicine information to practice staff and patients

Answer relevant medicine-related queries from GPs, other network staff, healthcare teams (e.g. Community pharmacy) and patients.

Suggest and recommend solutions and/or possible alternatives e.g. around out of stock medications.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Working in Community pharmacy or similar level hospital experience
• Working under appropriate clinical supervision to ensure safe, effective and efficient use of medicines

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Meets the specific 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)
• Evidence of commitment to and able to demonstrate CPD including Management qualification /professional development.

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

Sutton Primary Care Networks

Address

The Old Court House Surgery

Throwley Way

Sutton

Surrey

SM1 4AF

Employer's website

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