Job Description

Overview

Pharmacy Technicians play an important role, complementing clinical pharmacists, community pharmacists and other members of the surgery and PCN MDT.

Purpose of the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost effective best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care. You will help the patient get the best from their medications by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing in general practice and minimising the risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.

Alongside the role they will also encourage the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines.

This will also involve assisting the PCN in achieving national requirements, NICE implementation and utilisation of medicines optimisation initiatives.

Duties

Clinical :

Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medication use, carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation, as determined by the PCN, support clinical pharmacists in structure medication reviews (SAR), provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, manage shared protocols and liaise with clinical pharmacists for more complex patients.

Technical and Administrative:

Support the PCN MDT to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed, implement efficient ordering and return processes and reducing medication wastage, provide training and support to others where needed, promotion of electronic repeat dispending (eRD) practice prescription hub, drums, dosette boxes and online ordering, support practice reception teams in streaming general prescription requests to allow clinical pharmacists and GP more time to review complex cases, support national implementation of prescribing policies and guidance within GP practice, support PCN to deliver on QIPP and QOF and other locally enhanced services and support the surgery and PCN in reviewing and developing policies for CQC requirements and DSQS audit and relevant SOP's.

All Technicians must work within their competencies and have professional indemnity for their role

Qualifications

Essential

Professional registration with GPhC BTEC/NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Pharmaceutical Sciences Evidence of Continued Professional Development

Desirable

Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy Ability to demonstrate how to influence and persuade partners of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges
Job Type: Permanent

Pay: 17.23 per hour

Expected hours: No more than 33 per week

Work Location: In person