Job Description

Practice Pharmacy Technician

The Manor Group

Hours: Full-time (although applications for part-time will be considered and flexible working opportunities are available)

Salary: Band 5 equivalent

We are a large, friendly GP Practice in Oxford, with approximately 26,000 patients, looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Pharmacy Technician to join our Pharmacy team. The role is based across both the Manor Surgery and Kennington Health Centre.

The successful applicant will help develop and manage medicines optimisation services and improve the quality and safety of care offered to our patients. It is expected that as part of this role you will enrol on a Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway if you have not completed this already. This is an 18-month programme designed to support you in meeting a range of competencies in order to deliver safe and effective patient care.

You will play an important role within The Manor Group, complimenting the work of our Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technician as well as the wider multi-disciplinary team. You will help patients get the best from their medicines, use existing protocols to maximise cost-effective preparations, improve repeat prescribing processes (including use of electronic repeat dispensing and online ordering), minimising clinical risk and reducing avoidable wasted medicines.

The role will include visiting our local care home settings with support from our Clinical Pharmacists, to undertake medicines reconciliation, medication reviews and there will be opportunities to shape the medicines ordering processes to reduce medicines wastage. You will work with the Pharmacists to ensure our hospital discharge letters are reviewed in a timely manner and medicines reconciliation is performed accurately to ensure medicine changes are made when patients are discharged back home into the community. This is a patient facing role in Practice, with phone call and occasional face to face interactions with patients to assess medicines use and communicate changes to medicines.

We are looking for someone who is trained as a Pharmacy Technician, with excellent communication skills and a commitment to working as part of a strong and effective clinical team. This is an exciting role for someone looking to develop their clinical and management skills in primary care in a supportive team.

How to apply: Please email a CV and covering letter to manorsurgery.hr@nhs.net

For further information and/or to arrange an informal discussion about the role, please contact Adela Messinger on 01865 762535 or by email at manorsurgery.hr@nhs.net. This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

Job Title:

Practice Pharmacy Technician

Employer:

The Manor Group

Reports to:

Lead Pharmacist

Key relationships:

Patients

GPs, nurses and other practice staff

Practice based GP prescribing leads and Pharmacists

Community pharmacists and support staff

Job Summary:

To support the Practice based Clinical Pharmacists to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

To undertake medicines reconciliation in accordance with practice protocols and to update patients' medical records / prescribing accordingly.

To support the achievement of the practice's prescribing Quality and Outcomes Framework targets.

Working with the Clinical Pharmacists and Prescriptions Clerk to contribute to the review and development of repeat prescribing protocols / Standard Operating Procedures to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of repeat prescribing systems.

To deal with medication queries including acute medication requests, patient medication and prescription queries. This may involve removing unwanted items, checking review dates, ensuring necessary blood tests and monitoring has been carried out, prescription synchronization etc

To provide advice to GPs, staff and patients in changes to prescribing to support the improvement of prescribing safety, quality and cost effectiveness.

To participate in medication audits.

To assist in the appropriate monitoring and management of prescribing budgets and to liaise with the medicines management team at the Oxfordshire CCG.

To prepare evidence-based resources and information to support the implementation of rational cost-effective prescribing.

To support the Practice Based Clinical Pharmacists to provide medication reviews, patient information leaflets, medicine awareness; and to undertake community visits as appropriate, particularly to our local care homes

To take a proactive approach to the safe handling of prescriptions, including assessment of risk and making recommendations for improvement.

To respond to medication queries from patients and staff in a professional manner referring to the appropriate GP in accordance with practice protocols.

To advise on the sourcing and safe management of medicines as appropriate.

To assist in the submission of claims for personally administered drugs as required.

Be responsible for the organisation, planning and of own workload to meet set deadlines.

Professional

:

Agree objectives and a personal development plan and participate in the appraisal process

Develop and facilitate good working relationships with community pharmacists and other local providers of healthcare

Plan and organise own workload, including audit and project work, and training sessions for members of the practice team, patients, and carers

Participate in staff meetings to discuss and implement changes as well as to keep abreast of developments within the Practices and locality

Attend local, regional and national meetings of relevance as agreed

Contribute to the Practices development plans

Maintain high standards, clinically and administratively, in line with CQC requirements

Complete mandatory training requirements - to include CPR, anaphylaxis, immunisations, safeguarding, information governance Maintain professional appearance and professional conduct with colleagues, patients and relatives
Maintain effective liaison with other agencies and staff concerned with patient care and with all other disciplines within the practice, with appropriate regard to confidentiality

Undertake any other duties commensurate with the post holder's grade as agreed with the post holder's line manager

Health & Safety:

Demonstrate knowledge and application of principles of Health and Safety in the workplace: to include fire, infection control, COSHH, cold chain procedures as per practice policy
Assist in promoting and maintaining own and others' health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health & Safety Policies

Identify the risks involved in work activities and undertake such activities in a way that manages those risks

Identify and report significant events, following procedures related to professional standards

Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintain work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards - clean cupboards and restock as per schedule

Equality and Diversity:

Support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, respecting their privacy and dignity needs

Behave in a manner which is welcoming to everyone, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights

This job description is not exhaustive and is intended to be an outline only. Changes may be made by agreement at any time.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 13.50 per hour

Benefits:

Company pension
Work Location: In person