Pharmacy Technician

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Description

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a Pharmacy Technician in Lincolnshire to support GP practices within the PCN. We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated Pharmacy Technician with a minimum of 2 years experience to join our existing PCN pharmacists team. The successful pharmacy technician candidate will play an important role in complementing our clinical pharmacists and other members of the PCN multi-disciplinary team.

The successful candidate will work with two GP practices.

They will embed into a team of GP's, pharmacists, technicians, practice nurses, occupational therapists, social prescribers and physiotherapists.

They will work with supportive colleagues in the network pharmacist team to promote high-quality prescribing and optimise the management of long-term conditions.

Main duties of the job

This is an evolving job role with huge scope for development as we expand our PCN team further over the years.

The post holder will:

The post holder will support the PCN clinical pharmacists with the Network DES programme.

Liaise with clinicians and administrative staff to resolve medicines-related queries

Monitor practice prescribing and adherence to local and national prescribing policies

Improve service and quality through mechanisms such as audit

The post will also work with patients and their carers to get the best from their medicines, improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practice, including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.

About us

East Lindsey Primary Care Network (PCN) consists of 11 GP surgeries across Lincolnshire and the surrounding villages.

This post will be covering New Conningsby and Horncastle practices.

We pride ourselves on being an active PCN within our local system working with local system partners including NHS trust and residential homes.

We can offer you a generous NHS Pension and 25 days holiday and 8 Bank Holidays and training opportunities as well as the opportunity to influence and develop this new role and team.

We are very team focused and looking for the right person to join us.

We have a team of 3 Clinical Pharmacists working across the PCN.

This is an exciting new role within the PCN and will support the practice based Clinical Pharmacists and the wider PCN work programme including Enhanced Health in Care Homes.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face to face structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription request, while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP practice(s) that make up the PCN.

The post holder will perform face to face medication review of patients, especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities. The post holder will provide support on quality improvement and clinical audit and well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.

This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Educated to GCSE level

Desirable

• NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Skills

Experience

Essential

• Highly specialised clinical technical services and advice concerning care, including reviewing prescriptions, providing specialised advice on doses, possible side effects of drugs, undertakes risk management and ensures compliance with medicines legislation

Desirable

• General practice experience

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

East Lindsey Primary Care Network

Address

Woodhall Spa New Surgery

The Broadway

Woodhall Spa

Lincolnshire

LN10 6SQ

Employer's website

http://www.elpcn.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)