Pharmacy Technician Nottingham

Meeveem Limited; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension 2015 Scheme

Flexible working

Free parking

Job summary

PICS is recruiting a Pharmacy Technician to join our team of Clinical Pharmacists at Ashfield North PCN. The successful candidate will support medicines optimisation across GP practices and care homes, under supervision, and contribute to safe, cost-effective prescribing.

You will work with Senior Pharmacy staff, access CPPE pathway for development, participate in care home rounds with GPs, and be part of a multi-disciplinary PCN team across Sutton in Ashfield.

Qualifications

• General Pharmaceutical Council professional registration.
• Good clinical knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law, ethics, and current legislation.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

Responsibilities

• You will be part of a wider team of Pharmacy staff, supporting the care homes, while being supported by our Clinical Lead who is on the PICS leadership team.
• Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations.
• Carry out medicines optimisations tasks including effective medicine administration, supporting medication reviews and medicine reconciliation.
• Support the Clinical Pharmacists in Structured Medication Review and organise necessary monitoring tests.
• Promote antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.
• Promote Electronic Repeat Dispensing and online ordering through the NHS App.
• Assist in streamlining prescription requests with practice reception teams.

Skills

Good clinical knowledge

CPPE pathway access

Job description

About the Role

We are recruiting a Pharmacy Technician to join our team of Clinical Pharmacists at Ashfield North PCN. Pharmacy Technicians work under supervision to ensure effective and efficient use of medicines. The responsibilities of a Pharmacy Technician cover clinical, technical, and administrative categories.

The successful applicant will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicine optimisations throughout the practice teams, promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments which will involve national requirements, NICE guidance, and utilisation of medicines optimisation initiatives.

At PICS, patient safety is at the core of everything we do, and we recognise the importance of the support provided by Pharmacy Technicians in improving best practice to maximise safe and cost-effective prescribing. Our Senior Pharmacy staff will support you to fulfil the requirements of the role and you will have access to the CPPE pathway to develop your skills. We are committed to further the development of Pharmacy Technicians within Primary Care.

You will be part of a wider team of Pharmacy staff, supporting the care homes, while being supported by our Clinical Lead who is on the PICS leadership team.

You will be based at practices and care homes within Ashfield North PCN (all in Sutton in Ashfield) who support a population size of 52,000.

Main Duties

• To undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use.
• To support the medication reviews process
• To conduct medicine optimisation tasks including effective and efficient medicine administration
• Be a key player in the multi-disciplinary PCN team.
• Attending weekly Care Home Ward Rounds with the GPs, face to face and virtually.

Key Requirements

• General Pharmaceutical Council professional registration
• Good clinical knowledge (including terminology) and an understanding of pharmacy law, ethics, and current legislation.
• Evidence of continued professional development

About Us

PICS is the employer for this role. We collaborate with patients and partners to design and deliver clinically robust health and social care solution through Community Services, Out of Hospital Services, GP Practices, and Primary Care Networks. Find out more about us: http://picsnhs.org.uk/.

Benefits of working for PICS

We offer a comprehensive package which includes:

• NHS Pension 2015 Scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Alternative government-based scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Competitive leave entitlement that includes maternity, paternity and adoption leave, study leave allowance, and sickness provisions
• Access to education and training opportunities, depending on your role (CPPE Pharmacy, NHS England Roadmap for First Contact Practitioners, apprenticeship schemes, support professional development)
• Working in a multi-disciplinary team with support from a wide variety of professionals
• A flexible approach to a work-life balance
• Cycle to work scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Access to Blue Light Card scheme
• All staff events and conferences
• Staff engagement (Wellbeing Group, EDI Network, Staff Focus group)
• Free parking across many sites
• Personalised induction into the company and job role

Job Responsibilities

• You will be part of a wider team of Pharmacy staff, supporting the care homes, while being supported by our Clinical Lead who is on the PICS leadership team.
• Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations
• Carry out medicines optimisations tasks including effective medicine administration, supporting medication reviews and medicine reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
• Support the Clinical Pharmacists in Structured Medication Review, ie. Organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR
• Provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and talking local health inequalities
• Manage shared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients
• Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally
• Promote Electronic Repeat Dispensing to patients
• Promote online ordering through the NHS App
• Support practice reception teams in streamlining prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and Clinical Pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests
• Attending weekly Care Home Ward Rounds with the GPs, face to face and virtually.
• Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP Practices
• Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF, IIF, and other contracts
• Support the PCN in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC requirements
• Carry out housekeeping while in patient records e.g. dose optimisation, syncing medicines etc
• Conduct prescribing audits (as requested by Senior Clinical Pharmacist)
• To work at one or more of the 4 practices, and allocated care homes within the PCN

Additional Responsibilities

• Promote our culture of equality and diversity
• Ensure our principles of openness, transparency and candor are upheld
• Continue annual training and CPD to maintain good practices, especially within Safeguarding and IPC.

Professional Development / Personal Performance

• Identify learning needs, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of education to meet identified need.
• Establish own support mechanisms to enable structured reflection, including clinical supervision, development of supportive networks mentoring and coaching.
• Participate in and undertake clinical supervision of colleagues on an individual or group
• Participate in the Divisional appraisal System and demonstrate the achievement of agreed personal objectives.

Physical and Mental Skills

Effort and Environment

Physical Effort

• Frequent long periods of time spent writing up patient related information within agreed time limits. There is a need for speed and accuracy. This is a continuous requirement throughout each day.
• Prolonged periods of time spent in a sitting position at a computer screen when answering the telephone and writing clinical information in patients notes at the same time.
• Infrequent sitting or standing in a restricted position eg: crouching or kneeling to deliver care. Infrequent moderate / occasional intense effort for several short periods.
• Treatment sessions may require the post holder to undertake moving and handling tasks with the patient which may or may not involve using specialist equipment. Occasional requirement to transport bulky equipment to patients homes.

Mental Effort

• Prolonged periods of concentration are required frequently throughout each shift when prioritising referrals and allocating work to other team members. This can often involve changing from one task to another and back to original task with several interruptions in between.
• Prioritising work is essential, as often many tasks are required to be undertaken simultaneously. The post holder is required to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Concentration on reading and writing reports is necessary. Deadlines are applicable for multi-professional meetings.
• Concentration for periods of time when working and discussing health issues with patients, families and carers.

Emotional Effort

• Some patients will have complex needs. Some will have problems that can cause stress for the post holder.
• The post holder can also be faced with distressing circumstances and emotionally demanding situations, which will come about occasionally when dealing clients and their families. There can be frustration when patients do not accept or action health plans.

Working Conditions

• To function effectively across a variety of environments e.g.: GP Practice, patients homes and care homes.
• The post holder can be a lone worker.
• Occasionally the post holder may be exposed to aggressive verbal/physical aggression from patients, relatives and other health and social care professionals over the telephone or face to face

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
• Please provide your registration number of your GPhC professional registration.

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.

Experience

Essential

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).