Pharmacy Technician

Consett Medical Centre; Consett; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in England seeks a Pharmacy Technician to enhance patient care through safe and effective prescribing. The successful candidate will work within a dynamic pharmacy team, assisting with medication queries, optimizing prescribing processes, and contributing to a culture of medication safety. Ideal candidates will possess NVQ level 3 in Pharmacy Services and excellent interpersonal and IT skills. This role offers a comprehensive experience in a large GP practice with a focus on quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Ability to work under pressure and prioritize workload.
• Experience with patient/customer care.
• Understanding of prescribing and medicines management.

Responsibilities

• Support the practice team in medicine optimisation processes.
• Respond to medication-related queries by patients and professionals.
• Review and action clinic letters for medication changes.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Ability to organise and prioritise workloads

Ability to multi-task

Experience with clinical systems

Excellent IT skills

Education

NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services

Qualified and registered with the GPhc

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

SystmOne

Job description

Consett Medical Centre is looking torecruit a Pharmacy Technician to join an established pharmacy team to maximisesafe, cost-effective prescribing to improve the quality of patient care.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will help patients get the bestfromtheir medicines, use existing protocols to maximise cost-effective prescribing,improve repeat prescribing processes, minimising clinical risk and reducingavoidable wasted medicines

In addition, the post holder will develop and encourage a positive culture of medicines optimisation principles to assist the practice achieve local and national medicines related objectives.

About us

Consett Medical Centre is a large GP Practicewith over 17,000 patients.This job description is intended asguide to the principal duties and responsibilities of the post. It must not be regarded as precisely definingall duties and will be subject to amendment in the light of developing practiceneeds. Successful candidate will beexpected to engage in any training to meet the demands of the role.

Job responsibilities

General Responsibilities

• Support the practice team to ensure efficient medicine optimisation processes are being followed.
• Follow shared care protocols and increase the quality and safety of prescribing through medicine safety initiative and project work.
• Respond to medication related queries generated by patients, GPs, other health care professionals and staff including repeat prescribing, medication review, medicines reconciliation and supply issues with medications.
• Review of and actioning of clinic letters and hospital discharge summaries for changes to medication and medication related monitoring.
• Acting upon tasks arising from secondary care correspondence.
• Support of the practice reception team in streaming general prescription requests, to enable GPs, nurses and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.
• Support patients to manage their medications, including provision of patient information and medication counselling, arrangement of monitored dosage systems, synchronisation of patient's medication and setting up of electronic repeat dispensing under the supervision of the pharmacy team.
• Work with practice team to highlight patients who require ongoing monitoring and to promote patients to attend appointments for long term monitoring.
• Action acute medication requests.
• Maintain accurate and contemporaneous record keeping in clinical notes.
• Support the practice to deliver PCN DES, QOF, QASI and locally commissioned enhanced services.
• Support the practice in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC requirements.
• Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.
• Present at patient group meetings or appropriate events to give advice on the appropriate use of medicines.
• Attend and participate in training programmes as a part of continuous education.
• Ensure adherence to own professional revalidation and ensuring own competency is up to date for current role.
• Assist with the provision of medication related training and education sessions the practice team and other clinical and non-clinical teams.

KNOWLEDGE,SKILLS AND EXPERTISE REQUIRED:

Excellentinterpersonal skills including ability to work as part of a team and the abilityto motivate others.

Abilityto organise and prioritise workloads.

Abilityto complete work within defined timescales.

Abilityto multi-task and perform under stressful situations with a can-do attitude

Demonstratetact, diplomacy and tolerance at all times, with utmost importance given to patientcare.

Experienceof prescribing within clinical systems.

COMMUNICATIONSAND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

Reportsto the Practice Pharmacist Team on a day-to-day basis.

Liaisewith all practice staff, attached staff, external agencies including CCG staffand members of the public.

Maintainconfidentiality.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Good standard of general education and vocational qualifications, NVQ level 3 Pharmacy Services (or equivalent), Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP) or willingness to complete, Qualified and registered with the GPhc as a pharmacy technician, Evidence of ongoing CPD.

Experience

• Ability to deal professionally and efficiently with members of the public and other members of the multidisciplinary team, Genuinely passionate about patient/customer care, Must be able to demonstrate a flexible approach and cope under pressure on a daily basis, Understanding of prescribing and medicines management issues, Proven experience in challenging and constantly changing working environment, Ability to develop good communication links with staff at all levels and other agencies, Ability to organise and prioritise workload, Excellent IT skills, knowledge of software packages including Microsoft Word/Excel/ Outlook/Teams.
• Experience of working within the NHS/Public sector, Experience working with SystmOne

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.