Pharmacy technician

The Parchmore Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a registered Pharmacy Technician to join its team. The successful candidate will support the primary care network in optimising medicines and participating in patient care across multiple GP practices. This role offers opportunities for training and professional development within a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Competitive terms

NHS Pension scheme offered if eligible

Qualifications

• Experience of patient consultation.
• Experience of working with GPs.

Responsibilities

• Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use.
• Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration.
• Support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation.
• Provide specialist expertise to address public health needs of patients.
• Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes.

Skills

Good clinical knowledge

Excellent communication skills

Organisational skills

Computer literate

Ability to work on own initiative

Enthusiastic and self-motivated

Education

BTEC in pharmaceutical sciences / NVQ level 3 or equivalent

Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Job description

An exciting opportunity for a registered Pharmacy Technician to join the Pharmacist Team at One Thornton Heath PCN to develop and support medicines optimisation across ourwell-established primary care network of six GP practices in North Croydon.

The role requires participation in all aspects of patient care through knowledge gained from training, working for One Thornton Heath PCN across three GP practices as part of their multidisciplinary healthcare professional teams and will be supported and supervised by a GP Supervisor. This is a key position within our developing PCN and involvement in routine care including care homes ensures the post holder has the necessary breadth of training and ongoing clinical challenge.

Main duties of the job

Main DutiesInclude

Support thePCN to reduce medicines related harm.

Lead on highrisk drugs monitoring and medicines safety audits

About us

One Thornton Heath Primary Care Network is an establishednetwork of 6 GP practices with many years' experience of collaborative working.

Allthe practices are committed to providing high quality care for the 54,000registered patients within the PCN. This new post will join the team of 1THPCN staff currently working successfully across the three Thornton Heath practices.

Thepost holder will be employed by a lead training practice on behalf of the PCNand the lead practice will provide regular support and clinical supervision,reporting to the PCN Clinical Directors and Business Lead

Fulltraining will be given

Competitiveterms and NHS Pension scheme offered if eligible.

Job responsibilities

JOBDESCRIPTION FOR THE POST OF

PHARMACYTECHNICIAN

OneThornton Heath Primary Care Network

REPORTS TO: PCN Clinical Directors andBusiness Lead

Job Summary:

Therole requires participation in all aspects of patient care through knowledgegained from training, working for One Thornton Heath PCN across six GPpractices as part of their multidisciplinary healthcare professional teams andwill be supported and supervised by a GP Supervisor. This is a key position within our developingPCN and involvement in routine careensures the post holder has the necessary breadth of training and ongoingclinical challenge.

Job Responsibilities:

·Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensureeffective medicines use, through shared-decision making conversations withpatients.

· Carry out medicinesoptimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checkinginhaler technique), supporting medication reviews, and medicinesreconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work inpartnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.

· Support, as determined bythe PCN, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care homepatients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between caresettings and linking with local community pharmacists.

· Provide specialistexpertise, where competent, to address both the public health and social careneeds of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help intackling local health inequalities.

· Take a central role in theclinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialistpharmacists for more complex patients.

· Support initiatives forantimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.

· Assist in the delivery ofmedicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safetyaudits.

· Support the implementationof national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homesand other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertakingclinical audits, supporting quality improvement measures and contributing tothe Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services.

Main DutiesInclude:

· Support thePCN to reduce medicines related harm.

· Lead on highrisk drugs monitoring and medicines safety audits

Person Specification

Knowledge/Skills

• Good clinical knowledge
• Good understanding of Primary Care structure and General Practice
• Excellent communication skills written and verbal
• Organisational skills
• Accuracy
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• Computer literate including Microsoft office packages and web based searching
• Conducts oneself in a professional manner at all times
• Be able to travel freely and travel between multiple sites on a daily basis if required
• Enthusiastic and self-motivated
• Able to work under pressure

Experience

• Experience of patient consultation
• Experience of working with GPs

Qualifications

• BTEC in pharmaceutical sciences / NVQ level 3 or equivalent.
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.