Pharmacy TechnicianNHS

Job summary

Pharmacy Technician - Warwickshire East PCN

South Warwickshire GP Federation

Salary: £30,191 - £36,479 (Depending on experience)

Job type: Full-time, permanent

Location: The successful candidate will be required to travel between/or based atSoutham Surgery, Southam.Due to the geography and nature of the role a clean UK driving license and full use of car is essential.

Job summary

Warwickshire East PCN are looking to recruit Pharmacy Technicians who are passionate for delivering a quality service to their patients. The post holder will support the practice based Clinical Pharmacist to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes. This role will proactively transfer workload relating to medicines optimisation issues to improve patients care, safety and free up clinical staff to spend more time on clinical care.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

The Pharmacy Technician will support the medicine management role of the Clinical Pharmacist to deliver a safe, efficient, and consistently effective General Practice model of care, including supporting and assisting a cluster of GP practices. 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.

Essential

Professional registration with GPhC.

BTEC or NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences.

Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.

Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy.

Has appreciation of new NHS architecture including the relationship between individual provider, PCN and commissioners.

Knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law and ethics and current legislation.

Computer literate with an ability to use the required GP clinical systems desirableand Microsoft office packages essential

Evidence of planning and delivering projects and services on time. Has a planned and organised approach with an ability to prioritise their own workload to meet strict deadlines.

Job description

Job Summary:

To support the Practice Based Clinical Pharmacist to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes. To proactively transfer workload relating to medicines optimisation issues to improve patients care, safety and free up clinical staff to spend more time on clinical care.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Support the Clinical Pharmacist at GP federation level in their role in each of the PCN practices.

Improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medicines.

Support the clinical pharmacist with medicines and prescribing queries from patients and staff.

Support the clinical pharmacist to improve the safety and quality of prescribing following hospital admissions and attendance.

Carry out medicines switches in GP practices in line with practice and CCG/ CSU agreed specific protocols reviewing patients records, amending records and informing patients.

Carry out housekeeping whilst in patient records e.g. dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation.

Support improving prescribing processes in general practice.

Promotion of electronic repeat dispensing and online ordering.

Use and maintain information systems and databases relevant to the position including incident reporting, medicines optimisation, prescribing data, cost savings and patient outcomes.

Work closely with GP practices within their designated PCN.

Participate in practice meetings, patient participation groups, and other meetings to improve engagement of the role of pharmacy technician within the PCN model and to promote issues relevant to prescribing and medicines optimization.

Liaise with other pharmacy stakeholders e.g. CCG/ CSU Medicines Optimisation team, community pharmacy, and hospital pharmacy teams.

Handle function specific information, which may be sensitive, complex or confidential and appropriately recording, transferring and/or coordinating such information in accordance with the Data Protection Act; Caldicott Guidelines and the Confidentiality Code of Conduct.

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

To utilise GP practice clinical systems to conduct prescribing audits e.g. EMIS Web.

To undertake, participate and share the outcomes of clinical audits to facilitate improvement and changes in practice.

Ensure that all major MHRA drug alerts, where appropriate and within level of competence, are acted upon within practices over an appropriate time frame and to advise on any medication changes that occur as a result.

To assist in the monitoring of prescribing expenditure at individual practice level and propose changes to ensure containment within identified resource.

To undertake learning and development to ensure the required knowledge and skills for practice-based work.

To carry out other duties which are appropriate to the skills and competencies of the post holder and grade of the post as the priorities of the service change.

Contribute to the achievement and maintenance of good to outstanding CQC registration status.

About us

Overview of our organisation

SWGP Federation is made up of GP practices from areas including Warwick, Leamington, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Kenilworth. We work together to deliver enhanced services for the 300,000 patients we cover, as well as improving working practices for our staff. We are proud to offer high levels of patient care across South Warwickshire. Our purpose is to grow, support and enable Primary Care in South Warwickshire by offering additional services and enabling individual practices to focus more time on delivering patient care.

o 25 days annual leave + bank holidays

o NHS Pension

o Health & Wellbeing support

o Vivup Employee Assistance Programme

o Bike2work Scheme

o Access to the Blue Light card

The Warwickshire East PCN consists of the following practices:

Southam Surgery - Stowe Drive, Southam CV47 1NY

St Wulfstan Surgery - Northfield Road, Southam CV47 0FG

Harbury Surgery - Mill Street, Harbury, Leamington Spa CV33 9HR

Fenny Compton Surgery - High Street, Fenny Compton, Southam CV47 2YG

Kineton Surgery - Old School, Market Square, Kineton CV35 0LP