Job summary
CHOC
PCN are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Pharmacy Technician who
shares our values and is committed to providing excellent care, to join our
growing team.
As
a Pharmacy Technician you will support our GP practices and work closely with
our team of Clinical Pharmacists. The successful candidate will share our
values and have the energy, skills and enthusiasm to contribute to shaping how
we support our patients. You will be required to act within your professional
boundaries, supporting and working alongside a multi-disciplinary team within
general practice and a Primary Care Network.
The
purpose of the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost effective
best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care. The post
holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching
medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing
processes in General Practice, promoting digitalisation, minimising clinical
risk, and aiming to reduce wasted medicines. In addition, you will be
responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the
principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and
promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments. This will
involve assisting the PCN in achieving national requirements, implementation of
NICE guidelines, and utilisation of medicines optimisation initiatives.
Main duties of the job
- Undertake patient facing and supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use
- Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration, reconciliation, and actioning hospital-initiated medication changes.
- Utilise skills to work with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively
- Support medication reviews and reconciliation for care home patients. And synchronise medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking with local pharmacists
- Provide expertise to address the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice and service information
- Take a central role in the use of shared care protocols and liaising with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients
- Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship
- Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation, management incentive schemes and patient safety audits;
- Support the Pharmacy team with Structured Medication Reviews
- Work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing waste
- Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems, support practices with a range of services by encouraging and implementing Electronic Prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines
- Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines
- Please see job description attached
About us
Congleton and Holmes Chapel (CHOC) Primary Care Network (PCN) About us
- 49,500 patient population across Congleton & Holmes Chapel
- Friendly, experienced staff with low turnover
- Wide array of roles supported including clinical pharmacists, SPLWs, ANPs, paramedics, first contact physios, and mental health practitioners
- Research within the PCN
- PCN Education Clinical Lead providing monthly mentorship to a range of PCN team roles
We are a dynamic, forward thinking PCN team who are passionate about developing and delivering excellent quality local services to meet the needs of our patients. We are committed to working together to deliver high quality care for our patients. We aim to bring together collaborative working for health, social care and the voluntary sector, by improving systems and processes, enabling increased time to deliver improved patient care. We will achieve more by harnessing the strengths of our stakeholders. Our mission is to place the patient at the heart of everything we do within the community delivered by a multi-disciplinary team improving our patients health.
We are looking for Candidates to join our PCN Clinical Pharmacy team. We currently have an Advanced Practitioner Clinical Pharmacist, three Clinical Pharmacists and a Pharmacy Technician.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Personal
development and Professional responsibilities
Applicants
must:
- Have experience
of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care,
community or hospital pharmacy
- Be registered
with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC);
- Meet the specific
qualification and training requirements as specified by the GPhC criteria to
register as a Pharmacy Technician;
- Undertake the
CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP), as per the requirements
of the PCN Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme
- Take
responsibility for own development, learning and performance and keep up to
date with their own requirements for continuing professional development (CPD)
Clinical
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), medicines reconciliation, and actioning
hospital-initiated medication changes. 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 expertise
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
Clinical Pharmacist team with Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs), e.g. by
ordering necessary monitoring tests, and prioritising patients
Technical
and Administrative responsibilities
- Work with the PCN
multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including
implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage;
- Provide
leadership for medicines optimisation systems across the PCN, 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;
- Provide training
and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines
- Develop
relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the
multidisciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across
health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary
care, and mental health teams.
Supervision
- The postholder
will have access to appropriate clinical supervision and an appropriate named
individual in the PCN to provide general advice and support.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Personal
development and Professional responsibilities
Applicants
must:
- Have experience
of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care,
community or hospital pharmacy
- Be registered
with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC);
- Meet the specific
qualification and training requirements as specified by the GPhC criteria to
register as a Pharmacy Technician;
- Undertake the
CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP), as per the requirements
of the PCN Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme
- Take
responsibility for own development, learning and performance and keep up to
date with their own requirements for continuing professional development (CPD)
Clinical
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), medicines reconciliation, and actioning
hospital-initiated medication changes. 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 expertise
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
Clinical Pharmacist team with Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs), e.g. by
ordering necessary monitoring tests, and prioritising patients
Technical
and Administrative responsibilities
- Work with the PCN
multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including
implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage;
- Provide
leadership for medicines optimisation systems across the PCN, 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;
- Provide training
and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines
- Develop
relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the
multidisciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across
health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary
care, and mental health teams.
Supervision
- The postholder
will have access to appropriate clinical supervision and an appropriate named
individual in the PCN to provide general advice and support.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Applicants must
- Have experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy
- Be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC);
- meet the specific qualification and training requirements as specified by the GPhC criteria to register as a Pharmacy Technician;
- Undertake the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP), as per the requirements of the PCN Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme
- Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance and keep up to date with their own requirements for continuing professional development (CPD)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Applicants must
- Have experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy
- Be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC);
- meet the specific qualification and training requirements as specified by the GPhC criteria to register as a Pharmacy Technician;
- Undertake the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP), as per the requirements of the PCN Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme
- Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance and keep up to date with their own requirements for continuing professional development (CPD)
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).
