Primary Care Network Pharmacy Technician

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Clinical

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

As determined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for care home patients and synchronising medicines for patients transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies

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

Technical and Administrative

Work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage

Supervise practice reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests

Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems across PCNs, 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, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)

Develop relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the multi-disciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health.

Medicines quality improvement and safety

Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance

Provide leadership on person centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

Implementation of local and national guidelinesTake a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulationSupport 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 (e.g. use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced servicesCare Quality CommissionWork with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involvedProfessional DevelopmentBe willing to be enrolled in or have qualified from an approved training pathway meeting the requirements of the UK-wide Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK (APTUK) National Competency Framework for Primary Care Pharmacy technicians (currently the CPPE or PCPEP training pathways)

Work with your line manager to undertake continual personal and professional development taking an active part in reviewing and developing the role and responsibilities

Adhere to organisations policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety

Work with your line manager to access a minimum of one supervision session per month by a senior clinical pharmacist or GP clinical supervisor

Research and evaluation

Critically evaluate and review literature

Identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice

Generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level

Apply research evidence base into the workplace

Health and Safety/Risk Management

Must always comply with the Health and Safety policies, in particular following safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting Systems

Comply with the Data Protection Act (2018) and the Access to Health Records Act (1990).

Benefits

Competitive salary package

Support for professional development and training

Flexible working options to accommodate work-life balance

Supportive and established team of 3 pharmacists and 2 pharmacy technicians

Person Specification

Transport

Essential

• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own homes

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community, or hospital pharmacy

Desirable

• Knowledge and Understanding of Primary Care Networks and General Practice

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional registration with General Pharmaceutical Council BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences

Desirable

• Completed the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) primary care pathway

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

Childwall and Wavertree Primary Care Network

Address

75 Hartsbourne Avenue

Liverpool

L25 1RY

Employer's website

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