Job Description

Job Summary

Job summary

Are you looking to contribute your skills in a dynamic and supportive environment? A fantastic opportunity to join our ARRS team and be a part of the overall vision of Coventry & Rugby GP Alliance has become available, and we are currently seeking a driven and dedicated individual to fill the role of Pharmacy Technician.

Our Pharmacy Technicians play a vital role as part of a busy team. In this position, you will support us with achieving our goals, while also contributing to the overall success of our organisation.

The post holder will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments. This will involve assisting the PCN in achieving national requirements, NICE implementation and utilisation of medicines optimisation initiatives.

If youre excited by the prospect of tackling new challenges, collaborating with a dynamic team, and helping shape the future of our organisation, we would love to hear from you.

Apply today and take the first step toward an exciting new chapter in your career.

Main duties of the job

The Pharmacy technicians core role responsibilities will cover clinical, and technical and administrative categories.

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. The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, 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

Coventry and Rugby GP Alliance are working with Primary Care Networks across Coventry and Warwickshire to deliver roles as part of the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme including Clinical Pharmacists and Physicians Associates.

At Coventry and Rugby GP Alliance, we pride ourselves on fostering a culture of innovation, growth, and continuous learning. As a member of our team, youll have the opportunity to work alongside talented professionals who are committed to delivering excellence and driving positive change within our industry.

We take pride in offering a robust range of benefits to support our employees, including,

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Annual Leave

: Enjoy 27 days of annual leave for full-time employees, in addition to bank holidays.

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Sick Pay

: Our enhanced sick pay policy ensures you are supported during times of illness.

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Pension Scheme

: Access to the NHS pension scheme to secure your financial future.

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Enhanced Maternity Leave

: We provide generous maternity leave to support new parents.

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Paternity Leave

: We also offer paternity leave to allow new fathers to bond with their newborns.

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Blue Light Discounts

: Take advantage of exclusive discounts available for our staff. After probation you can make a expense claim for the price of your blue light discount card and receive full reimbursement.

We are committed to creating a supportive and rewarding work environment for all our employees.

Job descriptionJob responsibilities

Duties: Clinical Practice

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 new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies

Support the Clinical Pharmacist in Structured Medication Reviews

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.

Technical and Administrative

Support the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.

Implement efficient ordering and return 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.

Promotion of Electronic Repeat Dispensing and online ordering

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

Support practice reception teams in streaming general prescription requests, to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.

Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.

Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services

Supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services;

Support the PCN in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC requirements

This is not an exhaustive list and ad hoc tasks will be assigned as appropriate. The duties of the post may be reviewed and, if appropriate, changed by discussion with the post holder to ensure the provision of effective and efficient services.

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: Up to 34,086.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Employee discount Enhanced maternity leave Health & wellbeing programme Sick pay
Schedule:

Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person

Reference ID: E0046-25-0058