Clinical Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

The Pharmacy Technician will support the role of the Clinical Pharmacist to deliver the General Practice model of care. The purpose of the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost-effective prescribing in order to improve quality, efficiency and patient care. The post holder will support patients to maximise the benefits from their medication, at the same time minimising clinical risk. This will include switching medications in accordance with approved protocols, reducing medicines wastage and improving repeat prescribing processes (including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering).

Main duties of the job

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Carry out medicines switches in GP practices in line with practice and ICB agreed specific protocols reviewing patients records; amending records and informing patients
• Carry out housekeeping whilst in patient records e.g. dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation
• Promotion of electronic repeat dispensing and online ordering
• Report on key performance indicators for CPGP to demonstrate added value for patients and general practice in accordance with NICE guidance
• Use and maintain information systems and databases relevant to the position including incident reporting, medicines optimisation, prescribing data, cost savings and patient outcomes
• Work closely with GP practices and the ICB Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice lead
• Support the Medicines Optimisation team in the delivery of the Medicines Optimisation strategy
• To be responsible for the organisation, planning and of own workload to meet set deadlines
• To utilise GP practice clinical systems to conduct prescribing audits e.g. SystmOne.
• To undertake, participate and share the outcomes of clinical audits to facilitate improvement and changes in practice

About us

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly, innovative, expanding and forward thinking teams. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician to join our General Practice teams as we expand and develop our services.

Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice is part of an exciting programme of transformation to develop a new model of care which addresses our ambition to deliver person-centred, co-ordinated care across the district. The Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice model is supported by the direction of national policy including the Five Year Forward View and GP Forward View where there is a need to better utilise the role of pharmacy within primary care to pro-actively help patients stay safe and well and out of hospital as well as helping to reduce the demands on general practice.

The successful candidate will work across and support practices within the Brunel Primary Care Network 6 working within Park Lane Practice, Phoenix Surgery