Practice Pharmacy TechnicianNHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Practice Pharmacy Technician to join our dynamic and forward-thinking team at Brookside Group Practice working 20 hours a week.

Main duties of the job

Reconcile the medications of patients whose care is transferred back to primary care in a timely and effective manner liaising with patients and other providers to ensure patients receive appropriate medication on discharge.

Proactively engage with patients whose care has been transferred to reduce potential readmission including identifying and rectifying unexplained variation.

Provide telephone support for patients with medication queries.

Manage requests to prescribe medication from specialists in line with Berkshire West formulary and locally agreed guidelines.

Work with pharmacy service team to:

• Develop safe, effective and efficient systems for the repeat prescribing of medication at scale across the PCN.
• Develop and implement systems to ensure the effective and continuous supply of medication to high-risk patients, and ensure safe and effective management of high risk medication
• Develop and implement changes to medicines in line with MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local or national guidance

Please see the attached job description for a full list of the main duties of the role.

Job description

Provide feedback and seek advice from pharmacist for patients where the post holder has clinical concerns around competence to safely manage their medications.

Manage requests to prescribe medication from specialists in line with Berkshire West formulary and locally agreed guidelines.

Update patient medication records in line with incoming clinical correspondence.

Refer patients to their community pharmacist for support with using their medicines.

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

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

Please see the attached Job Description for further information.

About us

The Practice serves approximately 31,000 patients from our 4 surgeries in Earley, Lower Earley, Winnersh and Wilderness Road.

Due to our size, we value communication and teamwork. We operate a strongly relational team structure and endeavour to listen well, encourage ownership and involvement and enable staff to grow in their individual development. We, therefore, spend a lot of time investing in team meetings and communication across the organisation. We are a member of Berkshire West Clinical Commissioning Group.

We recently won the HSJ (Health Services Journal) Digital Award for our innovative work we've done to refine our triage processes and model of care.

Other key aspects of the Practice include:

Use of Anima to aid triage/consultation

Strong IT and systems including Emis Web, Accu-Rx, DXS, ANIMA Documents

Longstanding Training Practice with GP Registrars, Physician Assistants trainees and others

Opportunities for clinical leadership and development

Specialist gynaecological, dermatology and physio services on site

Our own Primary Care Network, serving 31,000 patients

High Achieving QOF and highly successful PCN