Pharmacy Technician (1 day or 2 mornings per week)

TWNS PCN; Newent; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Newent is looking for a registered Pharmacy Technician to join their award-winning team. This role involves working with pharmacists and GPs, supporting medication reviews, and promoting patient safety. Ideal candidates will have GPhC registration, experience in primary care, and excellent communication skills. This position offers flexibility of hours and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Access to national training

Integration within a supportive team

Qualifications

• Must be a registered pharmacy technician with GPhC.
• Previous primary care experience is essential.
• Ability to work independently and within a team.

Responsibilities

• Support the Clinical Pharmacist with medication reviews.
• Conduct effective medicines reconciliation.
• Promote electronic repeat dispensing.

Skills

Team player

Attention to detail

Flexible and adaptable

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Organizational skills

Education

GPhC registration

Completed CPPE/NHSE GP training pathway

Tools

GP clinical systems

Microsoft Office

Job description

Pharmacy Technician (1 day or 2 mornings per week)

Wehave an exciting opportunity for a registered pharmacy technician to join our Newent practice, which forms part of thewell-established TWNS PCN award winning pharmacy team. The 5 practices arealready experienced in working with clinical pharmacists and technicians and this role provides a great opportunity to join an experienced team as well as have accessto national training through the NHSE Clinical training pathway. You will work closely with the clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, GPs,Community Pharmacists, Reception teams and other health professionals topromote the safe, effective and high quality, cost effective use of medicines.

Weare looking for candidates with previous primary care experience who are team players, enthusiastic and adaptable tochange, with a good level of competence in use of IT. This post will be based at Newent and is for 7.5 hours per week which can be worked as one day or 2 half days.

Main duties of the job

Thepost holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines througheffective medicines reconciliation after discharge and on other transfers ofcare, medication reviews, identification of patients suitable for electronicrepeat dispensing, promotion of online ordering, providing assurance ofmonitoring of high risk drugs, and handling of prescription queries within theareas of competence. This is not exhaustive of the potential candidates role ingeneral practice, where we will use individual skills to complement and developthe work undertaken in the team.

Keyskills and qualifications vital for this role are: being GPhC registered, experience in GP practice, ateam player and also able to work independently and recognising limitations,having attention to detail, able towork accurately, identifying errors quickly and easily, excellent verbal andwritten communication skills, organisational and prioritisation skills,flexibility and adaptability to the needs of practices and work pressures.

About us

TWNS PCN has 5 practices based in Newent,Staunton, West Cheltenham and 2 in Tewkesbury. We are led by proactive and forward thinking GPs and Business Managers who have recognised the benefit the pharmacy team can give to general practiceand have worked to grow and develop the team since it was established in 2016,being early adopters through the National Pilot of Clinical Pharmacists in GPpractice. The Pharmacy team were proud Clinical Pharmacy Congress 2018 winnersof the "Excellence in GP Practice" award and finalists for "Pharmacy Team of the Year" in the General Practice Awards 2022. We place our technicians in one practice for continuity and to enable effective integration within the practice teams, but we meet regularly to ensure thatprocesses are similar between surgeries and support each other. This post will be based in Newent.

If you would like further information and/or to arrangean informal discussion about the role, please e-mail Jackie Aberdeen

Job responsibilities

Main duties and responsibilities:

Support the role ofthe Clinical Pharmacist at PCN level on the delivery of the new ClinicalPharmacy in General Practice model

As determinedby the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for patienttransfers between care settings.

Carry outhousekeeping whilst in patient records e.g. dose optimisation and medicinessynchronisation

Promotion ofelectronic repeat dispensing and online ordering

Use and maintain information systems and databases relevant to theposition including incident reporting, medicinesoptimisation, prescribing data, cost savings and patient outcomes

Work closely with GPpractices and the ICB Practice Support Pharmacist in General Practice lead

Support practicereception teams in streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPsand clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests

Liaise with otherpharmacy stakeholders e.g. ICB Medicines Optimisation team, community pharmacy,and hospital pharmacy teams.

Support the MedicinesOptimisation team in the delivery of the Medicines Optimisation strategy

Handlefunction specific information, which may be sensitive, complex or confidentialand appropriately recording, transferring and/or coordinating such informationin accordance with the Data Protection Act; Caldicott Guidelines and theConfidentiality Code of Conduct

To beresponsible for the organisation, planning and of own workload to meet setdeadlines

To utilise GPpractice clinical systems to conduct prescribing audits e.g. SystmOne

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

As instructed bythe ICB Medicines Safety Officer, ensure that all major MHRA drug alerts, whereappropriate and within level of competence, are acted upon within practicesover an appropriate time frame and to advise on any medication changes thatoccur as a result

Toassist in the monitoring of prescribing expenditure at individual practicelevel and propose changes to ensure containment within identified resource

To undertakelearning and development to ensure the required knowledge and skills forpractice based work

To carry outother duties which are appropriate to the skills and competencies of the postholder and grade of the post as the priorities of the service change

General

The postholder will:

Develop a culture that promotesequality and values diversity. Thepostholder must be aware of and committed to the Equality and Diversitypolicies of the appointing GP Network and comply with all the requirements ofthese policies and actively promote Equality and Diversity issues relevant tothe post.

Ensure the principles of openness,transparency and candour are observed and upheld in all working practices.

Thepost holder will have, or acquire through training provided by theorganisation, the appropriate level of safeguarding and knowledge, skills andpractice required for the post and be aware of and comply with theorganisations safeguarding protection policies and procedures.

Ensurethat any infection prevention and control issues are reported to the linemanager/Infection Prevention and Control

Person Specification

Skills and Competencies

• Computer literate with an ability to use the required GP clinical systems (desirable) and Microsoft office packages (essential)
• Understand the aims of current healthcare within the PCN
• Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data
• 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
• Influencing and negotiating skills
• An excellent understanding of data protection and confidentiality issues

Attributes

• Works effectively independently and as a member of a team
• Flexible approach to meet service needs and ensure a stakeholder focused response
• Self-motivated and proactive
• Continued commitment to improve skills and ability in new areas of work
• Able to undertake the demands of the post with reasonable adjustments if required
• Independently mobile to be able to work across several sites and travel to meet with stakeholders
• Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
• Demonstrate ability to work in a busy environment; ability to deal with both urgent and important tasks and to prioritise effectively whilst also supporting others
• Excellent time keeping and prioritisation skills

Qualifications

• Professional registration with GPhC
• Completed the CPPE/ NHSE GP training pathway

Experience

• Experience of working in a primary care setting

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.