Job summary
We are seeking an experienced Pharmacy Technician to join our Parkstone Tower Practice to support the practice to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes.
Job Type: Permanent Full-time
Hours: 37 hours per week
Main duties of the job
- Provide medicines optimisation advice to Doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to promote the safe, effective, quality and cost-effective use of medicines.
- To reconcile medicines using the practice protocols for newly registered patients and following hospital discharge or outpatient consultation. Work with patients/carers and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines intended.
- Carry out housekeeping whilst in patient records e.g. Dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation
- Support repeat prescribing systems and processes in practice with a focus on quality improvement and supporting safe prescribing.
- Coordinate monthly prescriptions for care homes
- Support the Prescription Clerks, Patient Services and Call Hub team by helping with queries relating to prescription requests and look for ways to improve the efficiency and safety of the prescription issuing process, ensuring queries are resolved and scripts issued in line with the practice prescribing protocol timeframe (usually 2 working days)
Please see Job Description for full details.
About us
Shore Medical is a GP Super Partnership with 6 practices across Poole and Bournemouth. We aspire to offer exceptional care to our 58,000 patients and are innovative in our approach to developing new teams and pathways to ever improve how general practice is delivered.
We have a friendly and supportive team of more than 200 staff, with over 40 GPs, Pharmacists, Paramedics, Nurses, Mental Health specialists and our range of administrative staff. We have a great social side to our team with Summer and Christmas parties, running and paddle boarding groups as well as many other events throughout the year.
The Practices in the Partnership are
- Lilliput Surgery
- Poole Road Medical Centre
- Wessex Road Surgery
- Heatherview Medical Centre
- Fernside Surgery
- Parkstone Tower Practice
Situated in beautiful Dorset with the prestigious Blue Flag beaches of Bournemouth and Sandbanks, the Jurassic coastline and a wealth of attractions and countryside to visit we are lucky to be in such a fantastic area.
We offer
- Friendly and supportive working environment
- Continuous CPD
- NHS Pension Scheme with Life Insurance
- Free parking at most of the sites
- Cycle to work scheme
- Refer a Friend scheme
- Summer & Christmas parties
Job description
Job responsibilities
-
Provide medicines optimisation advice to
Doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to promote the safe,
effective, quality and cost-effective use of medicines.
-
To reconcile medicines using the practice
protocols for newly registered patients and following hospital discharge or
outpatient consultation. Work with patients/carers and community pharmacists to
ensure patients receive the medicines intended.
-
Carry out housekeeping whilst in patient
records e.g. Dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation
-
Support repeat prescribing systems and processes
in practice with a focus on quality improvement and supporting safe
prescribing.
-
Coordinate monthly prescriptions for care homes
-
Support the Prescription Clerks, Patient
Services and Call Hub team by helping with queries relating to prescription
requests and look for ways to improve the efficiency and safety of the
prescription issuing process, ensuring queries are resolved and scripts issued
in line with the practice prescribing protocol timeframe (usually 2 working
days)
Please see Job Description for full details
Job description
Job responsibilities
-
Provide medicines optimisation advice to
Doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to promote the safe,
effective, quality and cost-effective use of medicines.
-
To reconcile medicines using the practice
protocols for newly registered patients and following hospital discharge or
outpatient consultation. Work with patients/carers and community pharmacists to
ensure patients receive the medicines intended.
-
Carry out housekeeping whilst in patient
records e.g. Dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation
-
Support repeat prescribing systems and processes
in practice with a focus on quality improvement and supporting safe
prescribing.
-
Coordinate monthly prescriptions for care homes
-
Support the Prescription Clerks, Patient
Services and Call Hub team by helping with queries relating to prescription
requests and look for ways to improve the efficiency and safety of the
prescription issuing process, ensuring queries are resolved and scripts issued
in line with the practice prescribing protocol timeframe (usually 2 working
days)
Please see Job Description for full details
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- A minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
- Up to date clinical pharmacy therapeutic knowledge and practical knowledge of medicines optimisation principles and evidence based medicine
- Knowledge of pharmacy law and ethics, medicines optimisation, including legislation and policy
- Awareness of systems to support management of patients in a primary care setting, delivering pharmaceutical input and support in the context of pathways of care and the business of the practice
- Understanding of the NHS agenda and the issues affecting primary care
- Experience of change management and putting ideas into practice
- Experience dealing with difficult situations
- Experience of completing clinical audits
Desirable
- Experience as a primary care pharmacy technician or part of a primary care medicines optimisation team
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for the improvement of prescribing
- Experience of analysing prescribing data
- Knowledge of SystmOne clinical system
Qualifications
Essential
- BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Pharmaceutical Science or NVQ Level 3 Diploma in pharmacy service skills or equivalent with underpinning knowledge
- Current registration as a pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- BTEC Level 4 in Pharmaceutical Science
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- A minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
- Up to date clinical pharmacy therapeutic knowledge and practical knowledge of medicines optimisation principles and evidence based medicine
- Knowledge of pharmacy law and ethics, medicines optimisation, including legislation and policy
- Awareness of systems to support management of patients in a primary care setting, delivering pharmaceutical input and support in the context of pathways of care and the business of the practice
- Understanding of the NHS agenda and the issues affecting primary care
- Experience of change management and putting ideas into practice
- Experience dealing with difficult situations
- Experience of completing clinical audits
Desirable
- Experience as a primary care pharmacy technician or part of a primary care medicines optimisation team
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for the improvement of prescribing
- Experience of analysing prescribing data
- Knowledge of SystmOne clinical system
Qualifications
Essential
- BTEC Level 3 Diploma in Pharmaceutical Science or NVQ Level 3 Diploma in pharmacy service skills or equivalent with underpinning knowledge
- Current registration as a pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- BTEC Level 4 in Pharmaceutical Science
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).
