Job summary
This is a fantastic opportunity for a
new role helping to develop our dispensary using your clinical and management
skills in a friendly and rapidly growing practice.
We are looking to recruit an experienced
and enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician to join our practice in Tangmere. This
will be a dual role of day-to-day management of our dispensary and working with our clinical
staff and wider team to ensure safe, accurate and timely supply of
prescribed and dispensed medication.
Main duties of the job
To provide support to our GPs,
Clinical Pharmacist, Dispensers and other clinical staff and reception teams.
Management duties
Overseeing the effective running of
our onsite dispensary, ensuring effective and efficient processes to dispense
medication to our patient population,
Clinical duties
Coordinating discharge summaries and
medication reviews, playing a central role in repeat prescribing processes,
liaising with our patients, responding to medication queries and updating
medical records.
About us
Tangmere Medical Centre is a
semi-rural dispensing practice on the outskirts of Chichester, based in a large
purpose built surgery with onsite parking. We have a relatively small but growing
population of nearly 8000 patients, of which we dispense to just under 5000.We
have a younger patient demographic and are currently looking after one care
home.
We are a friendly, multi-disciplinary
team with 28 staff with a wide range of healthcare professionals. This includes a
Paramedic, Nurse Prescriber, Care Coordinators, Social Prescriber and First
Contact Physiotherapist, and we are hoping to expand our team with more GP's
and a Clinical Pharmacist.
We have a fantastic team of
reception, admin and dispensing staff who manage as much of the prescription
requests, correspondence, workflow and queries as much as possible, so the
clinical staff can get on with seeing the patients. And they even make great
cakes!
We have excellent patient reviews and
a strong, active Patient Participation Group, who often come onto site for fund
raising and to help with flu clinics.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the Pharmacy Technician. This will be a dual role of helping to manage our Dispensary and ensure it is compliant and up to date with prescribing policies and CQC compliance.
There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels. The pharmacy technician will work within their scope of clinical practice and:
- Support the practice to achieve financial targets.
- Use practice templates to monitor high risk drugs.
- Work with our Admin team to identify blood tests, recalls and reviews using established protocols and forward these to the appropriate clinician.
- 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 initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing
- Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines
- Participate in CQC related work. Including conducting medication related audits, arranging patient appointments and gathering information all in preparation for CQC inspections and reviews
- Support the pharmacist's in handling acute medication requests within competency and escalating any that are out of scope.
- Support and respond to medicine related queries from clinicians, patients and relatives both face to face, via phone or via email. Queries can include issues with interactions or ADRs, availability of stock, swallowing difficulties, cost-effectiveness, urgent requests or extra supplies.
- Review hospital discharge notifications and outpatient hospital letters and reconcile medication against current repeats, flagging up and correcting discrepancies.
- Help review medication with the pharmacists and make recommendations for prescribing changes to improve outcome and ensure prescribing of the most cost-effective product
- Promote safe use of medication, reporting of medicine related incidents and pro-actively preventing safeguarding incidents.
- Responding to and actioning drug safety alerts
- Use knowledge of GP computer prescribing systems and community pharmacy dispensing systems to advise on solving problems related to prescribing/dispensing and other areas to develop the skills of practice dispensing staff
- Observe the principles of clinical governance when developing policies, protocols, guidelines, SOPs and procedures.
- Manage efficient dispensary procedures and processes to become more streamlined within financial constraints
- Manage staffing levels in the Dispensary
- Ensure effective induction and training for new dispensary staff
- Act as mentor for dispensing staff in training and development
Job description
Job responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the Pharmacy Technician. This will be a dual role of helping to manage our Dispensary and ensure it is compliant and up to date with prescribing policies and CQC compliance.
There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels. The pharmacy technician will work within their scope of clinical practice and:
- Support the practice to achieve financial targets.
- Use practice templates to monitor high risk drugs.
- Work with our Admin team to identify blood tests, recalls and reviews using established protocols and forward these to the appropriate clinician.
- 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 initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing
- Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines
- Participate in CQC related work. Including conducting medication related audits, arranging patient appointments and gathering information all in preparation for CQC inspections and reviews
- Support the pharmacist's in handling acute medication requests within competency and escalating any that are out of scope.
- Support and respond to medicine related queries from clinicians, patients and relatives both face to face, via phone or via email. Queries can include issues with interactions or ADRs, availability of stock, swallowing difficulties, cost-effectiveness, urgent requests or extra supplies.
- Review hospital discharge notifications and outpatient hospital letters and reconcile medication against current repeats, flagging up and correcting discrepancies.
- Help review medication with the pharmacists and make recommendations for prescribing changes to improve outcome and ensure prescribing of the most cost-effective product
- Promote safe use of medication, reporting of medicine related incidents and pro-actively preventing safeguarding incidents.
- Responding to and actioning drug safety alerts
- Use knowledge of GP computer prescribing systems and community pharmacy dispensing systems to advise on solving problems related to prescribing/dispensing and other areas to develop the skills of practice dispensing staff
- Observe the principles of clinical governance when developing policies, protocols, guidelines, SOPs and procedures.
- Manage efficient dispensary procedures and processes to become more streamlined within financial constraints
- Manage staffing levels in the Dispensary
- Ensure effective induction and training for new dispensary staff
- Act as mentor for dispensing staff in training and development
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ Level 3 Diploma in Pharmacy Service Skills (QCF) plus Level 3 QCF Diploma in Pharmaceutical Science or GPhC accredited equivalent prior to July 2011
Desirable
- Completed CPPE pathway or close to finishing
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience
- Experience of managing or supervising a pharmacy or other small team
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of working in a GP practice or PCN
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ Level 3 Diploma in Pharmacy Service Skills (QCF) plus Level 3 QCF Diploma in Pharmaceutical Science or GPhC accredited equivalent prior to July 2011
Desirable
- Completed CPPE pathway or close to finishing
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience
- Experience of managing or supervising a pharmacy or other small team
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of working in a GP practice or PCN
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).
Additional information
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).