Job summary
Salary: £28,280 per year.
Job type: We are looking for a full time employee to work 37.5 hours per week Monday - Friday. The PCN will consider part time hours for the right candidate, 22.5 hours per week minimum.
Location:The successful candidate will be required to work across all Kenilworth & Warwick practices. Due to the geography and nature of the role a clean UK driving license and full use of car is essential.
Kenilworth & Warwick PCN are
looking to recruit a Pharmacy Technician who is passionate for delivering a
quality service to their patients. The post holder will support the practice
based Clinical Pharmacist to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and
efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing
medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes. This role will proactively
transfer workload relating to medicines optimisation issues to improve patients
care, safety and free up clinical staff to spend more time on clinical care.
Main duties of the job
The Pharmacy
Technician will support the medicine management role of the Clinical Pharmacist
to deliver a safe, efficient, and consistently effective General Practice model
of care, including supporting and assisting a cluster of GP practices. 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.
About us
SWGP Federation is made up of 31 GP
practices from areas including Warwick, Leamington, Stratford-upon-Avon, and
Kenilworth. We work together to deliver enhanced services for the 300,000
patients we cover, as well as improving working practices for our staff. We are
proud to offer high levels of patient care across South Warwickshire. Our
purpose is to grow, support and enable Primary Care in South Warwickshire by
offering additional services and enabling individual practices to focus more
time on delivering patient care.
o 25 days holiday + bank holidays
o
NHS Pension
o
Health & Wellbeing support
o
Bike2work Scheme
The Kenilworth and Warwick PCN consists of the following practices.
Castle Medical Centre - 22
Bertie Road, Kenilworth CV8 1JP
Abbey Medical Centre - 42
Station Road, Kenilworth CV8 1JD
Avonside Health Centre - Portabello Way, Warwick
CV34 5GJ
Priory Medical
Centre - Priory Medical Centre, Priory Road, Warwick, CV34
4NA
Chase Meadow Health Centre - 2 Alder
Meadow, Chase Meadow, Warwick CV34 6JY
Job description
Job responsibilities
Support the Clinical Pharmacist
at GP federation level in their role in each of the PCN practices.
Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in and compliance
with their medicines.
Support the clinical pharmacist with medicines and prescribing queries
from patients and staff.
Support the clinical pharmacist to improve the safety and quality of prescribing following hospital admissions and attendance.
Carry out medicines switches
in GP practices in line with practice and CCG/ CSU agreed specific
protocols reviewing
patients records; amending
records and informing patients.
Carry out housekeeping whilst
in patient records e.g. dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation.
Support improving prescribing processes in general practice.
Promotion of electronic repeat
dispensing and online
ordering.
Use and maintain information
systems and databases relevant to the position including incident reporting, medicines optimisation, prescribing data, cost
savings and patient outcomes.
Work closely with GP practices
within their designated PCN.
Participate in practice
meetings, patient participation groups, and other meetings to improve engagement of the role of pharmacy
technician within the PCN model and to promote issues
relevant to prescribing and medicines optimization.
Liaise with other pharmacy
stakeholders e.g. CCG/ CSU Medicines Optimisation team, community pharmacy,
and hospital pharmacy teams.
Handle function specific
information, which may be sensitive, complex or confidential and appropriately recording, transferring
and/or coordinating such information in accordance with the Data Protection Act; Caldicott Guidelines and the Confidentiality Code of Conduct.
To be responsible for the organisation, planning and of own workload to meet set deadlines.
To utilise GP practice clinical systems to conduct prescribing audits e.g. EMIS Web.
To
undertake, participate and share the outcomes of clinical audits to facilitate
improvement and changes in practice.
Ensure
that all major MHRA drug alerts, where appropriate and within level of
competence, are acted upon within practices over an
appropriate time frame and to advise on any medication changes that occur
as a result.
To assist in the monitoring of prescribing expenditure at individual practice level and propose changes to ensure containment within identified resource.
To undertake learning and development to ensure the required knowledge and skills for practice-based work.
To
carry out other duties which are appropriate to the skills and competencies of the post holder and grade of the post as the priorities of the service
change.
Contribute to the achievement and maintenance of
good to outstanding CQC registration status.
*Please see document attached for full job description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
Support the Clinical Pharmacist
at GP federation level in their role in each of the PCN practices.
Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in and compliance
with their medicines.
Support the clinical pharmacist with medicines and prescribing queries
from patients and staff.
Support the clinical pharmacist to improve the safety and quality of prescribing following hospital admissions and attendance.
Carry out medicines switches
in GP practices in line with practice and CCG/ CSU agreed specific
protocols reviewing
patients records; amending
records and informing patients.
Carry out housekeeping whilst
in patient records e.g. dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation.
Support improving prescribing processes in general practice.
Promotion of electronic repeat
dispensing and online
ordering.
Use and maintain information
systems and databases relevant to the position including incident reporting, medicines optimisation, prescribing data, cost
savings and patient outcomes.
Work closely with GP practices
within their designated PCN.
Participate in practice
meetings, patient participation groups, and other meetings to improve engagement of the role of pharmacy
technician within the PCN model and to promote issues
relevant to prescribing and medicines optimization.
Liaise with other pharmacy
stakeholders e.g. CCG/ CSU Medicines Optimisation team, community pharmacy,
and hospital pharmacy teams.
Handle function specific
information, which may be sensitive, complex or confidential and appropriately recording, transferring
and/or coordinating such information in accordance with the Data Protection Act; Caldicott Guidelines and the Confidentiality Code of Conduct.
To be responsible for the organisation, planning and of own workload to meet set deadlines.
To utilise GP practice clinical systems to conduct prescribing audits e.g. EMIS Web.
To
undertake, participate and share the outcomes of clinical audits to facilitate
improvement and changes in practice.
Ensure
that all major MHRA drug alerts, where appropriate and within level of
competence, are acted upon within practices over an
appropriate time frame and to advise on any medication changes that occur
as a result.
To assist in the monitoring of prescribing expenditure at individual practice level and propose changes to ensure containment within identified resource.
To undertake learning and development to ensure the required knowledge and skills for practice-based work.
To
carry out other duties which are appropriate to the skills and competencies of the post holder and grade of the post as the priorities of the service
change.
Contribute to the achievement and maintenance of
good to outstanding CQC registration status.
*Please see document attached for full job description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional registration with GPhC.
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical
- sciences.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in
- primary care, community or hospital pharmacy.
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualifications of a relevant nature. e.g.
- FdSc in Medicines Management/Pharmacy Services; BTEC Therapeutics
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional registration with GPhC.
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical
- sciences.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in
- primary care, community or hospital pharmacy.
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualifications of a relevant nature. e.g.
- FdSc in Medicines Management/Pharmacy Services; BTEC Therapeutics
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).
