Pharmacy Technician

Meadowgreen Health Centre; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Sheffield is looking for a qualified pharmacy technician to support clinical pharmacy services and work collaboratively with healthcare professionals. The role involves patient interaction, ensuring effective medicine use, and delivering structured reviews. Candidates need prior experience and GPhC registration. This is a chance to enhance patient care within a multi-disciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care.
• Excellent understanding of data protection and confidentiality issues.
• Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of clinical pharmacy services and manage patient queries.
• Conduct patient-facing roles to ensure effective medicines use through shared decision-making.
• Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda and QoF.

Skills

Attention to detail

Excellent communication skills

Analytical thinking

Organizational skills

Negotiation skills

Education

Professional registration with GPhC

BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences

Evidence of continued professional development (CPD)

Job description

The post holder will work with support from the Lead Clinical pharmacist and GPs within the Peak Edge PrimaryCare Network. Engaging with GP Partners and Practice Managers across the 4Practices covering the Peak Edge Network:

Woodseats Medical Centre

Steel City General Practice

Meadowgreen Health Centre

Sloan Medical Centre

Main duties of the job

Support the delivery of clinical pharmacy services, such as reviewing clinic letters and hospital discharge summaries for changes to medication, either new medication added or medication discontinued. It is also expected that any monitoring requirements arising from a secondary care letter will be noted. Several medications have shared care protocols outlining monitoring requirements, any new shared care arrangement should be agreed by a GP familiar with the shared care protocol. Read codes are often used to add a patient to a particular monitoring.

Increase the quality and safety of prescribing through medicine safety initiative and project work.

Deal with patient and healthcare professionals medication related queries.

Action MHRA and CAS Alerts

About us

This role will be part of Peak Edge Primary Care Network.

You will be part of the established pharmacy team.

Job responsibilities

Clinical

Undertakepatient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use,through shared decision-making conversations with patients.

Carry out medicinesoptimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checkinginhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation.Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership withpatients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.

Asdetermined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliationfor new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfersbetween care settings, linking with local community pharmacies

Support theclinical pharmacist to deliver structured medication reviews (SMRs) i.e.,organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR.

Provideexpertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients,including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling localhealth inequalities.

Manageshared care protocols and liaise with clinical pharmacists for more complexpatients.

Supportinitiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibioticprescribing locally.

Technical

Support thePCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisationprocesses are being followed.

Implementefficient ordering processes and reduce medication wastage.

Providetraining and support on the legal, safe, and secure handling of medicines,including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).

Promotionof Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering

Developrelationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of themultidisciplinary team to support integration across health and social careincluding primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health.

Supportpractice reception teams in streaming general prescription requests, to allowGPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.

Support theimplementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GPpractices, care homes and other primary care settings.

Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QoF and locally commissioned enhanced services

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy
• Has attention to detail, able to work accurately, identifying errors quickly and easily.
• Able to effectively manage allocated resources.
• Has a planned and organised approach with an ability to prioritise their own workload to meet strict deadlines.
• Able to think analytically; anticipating obstacles and thinking ahead; using analytical techniques to draw logical solutions to problems.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to adjust communication style and content to suit the audience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with team members, patients, carers, and other healthcare professionals.
• Whilst recognising peoples needs for alternative methods of communication.
• An excellent understanding of data protection and confidentiality issues.
• Experience in Primary Care
• Understand the aims of current healthcare policy within the PCN.
• Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data.
• Influencing and negotiating skills.

Qualifications

• Professional registration with GPhC BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
• Evidence of continued professional development (CPD)
• Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges.

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.