Job responsibilities
Pharmacy
technicians play an important role; complementing our clinical pharmacy team along with the wider practice team. Not only will you be working
closely within the practice, you will be expected to work closely with
colleagues outside of the organisation such as the PCN, community
pharmacies, CCG pharmacy professionals and secondary care. The pharmacy
technicians core responsibilities will cover clinical, technical and
administrative duties.
The purpose of the role is to
improve patient care by implementing best practice and maximising
prescribing safety. The post holder will help patients get the most from
their medicines, improve repeat prescribing processes, lead and promote
repeat dispensing/online ordering as well as aiming to reduce medicine
waste.
The role is
funded under the additional role reimbursement scheme (ARRS). The
post-holder will be required to enrol on the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy
Education Pathway (PCPEP). You will have a key role in the pharmacy team.
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 practice, support medication reviews and medicines
reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines
for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local
community pharmacies.
- Support the Clinical Pharmacist in Structure Medication Reviews (SMR) i.e. organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR
- 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.
- Manage shared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients.
- Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.
- Support
the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within
GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.
- Support the practice to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services
Technical and Administrative
- Support the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.
- Support prescription team by implement efficient ordering processes and reducing medication wastage.
- Provide
training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of
medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription
Service (EPS).
- Promotion of Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering
- Develop
relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the
multidisciplinary team to support integration across health and social
care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and
mental health.
- Support and provide leadership for practice
reception teams in streaming general prescription requests, so as to
allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex
requests.
- Support the practice in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC requirements.
All Pharmacy Technicians must work within their competencies, and have professional indemnity for their role.
The post-holder will:
Develop
a culture that promotes equality and values diversity. The post-holder
must be aware of and committed to the Equality and Diversity policies of
the appointing GP practices and comply with all the requirements of
these policies and actively promote Equality and Diversity issues
relevant to the post.
Ensure the principles of openness, transparency and candor are observed and upheld in all working practices.
The
post holder will have, or acquire through training provided by the
organisation, the appropriate level of safeguarding and knowledge,
skills and practice required for the post and be aware of and comply
with the organisations safeguarding protection policies and procedures.
Ensure that any infection prevention and control issues are reported to the line manager/Infection Prevention and Control
Equality and diversity:
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
Acting
in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting
them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies,
and current legislation
Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
Behaving
in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is
non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and
rights.
Personal/Professional development:
The
post-holder will participate in the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy
Education Pathway (PCPEP) and any other training required by the
practices as part of this employment, with such training to include:
Participation
in an annual individual performance review, including taking
responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or
professional development
Taking responsibility for own
development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and
activities to others who are undertaking similar work
Quality:
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
Contribute
to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team
activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the
teams performance
Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
Effectively manage own time, workload and resources
