Pharmacy technician

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB DESCRIPTION FOR THE POST OF

PHARMACY TECHNICIAN

One Thornton Heath Primary Care Network

REPORTS TO: PCN Clinical Directors and Business Lead

Job Summary:

The role requires participation in all aspects of patient care through knowledge gained from training, working for One Thornton Heath PCN across six GP practices as part of their multidisciplinary healthcare professional teams and will be supported and supervised by a GP Supervisor. This is a key position within our developing PCN and involvement in routine care ensures the post holder has the necessary breadth of training and ongoing clinical challenge.

Job Responsibilities:

· 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.

· Support, as determined by the PCN, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking with local community pharmacists.

· 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.

· Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients.

· Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.

· Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits.

· 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, supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services.

Main Duties Include:

· Support the PCN to reduce medicines related harm.

· Lead on high risk drugs monitoring and medicines safety audits

Person Specification

Knowledge/Skills

Essential

• Good clinical knowledge
• Good understanding of Primary Care structure and General Practice
• Excellent communication skills written and verbal
• Organisational skills
• Accuracy
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Computer literate including Microsoft office packages and web based searching
• Conducts oneself in a professional manner at all times
• Be able to travel freely and travel between multiple sites on a daily basis if required
• Enthusiastic and self-motivated
• Able to work under pressure

Experience

Essential

• Experience of patient consultation
• Experience of working with GPs

Qualifications

Essential

• BTEC in pharmaceutical sciences / NVQ level 3 or equivalent.
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Evidence of continuing 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

The Parchmore Group

Address

Parchmore Medical Centre

97 Parchmore Road

Thornton Heath

Surrey

CR2 7ND

Employer's website

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