Pharmacy Technician (Ventnor Medical Practice)

NHS; Ventnor; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS seeks a Pharmacy Technician for Ventnor Medical Practice to join a dedicated team providing patient care. Responsibilities include supporting clinical teams, administering prescribed medications, conducting safety audits, and addressing community health needs. This part-time or full-time role offers competitive NHS Band 5 equivalent salary.

Qualifications

• GPhC registration required.
• Experience in a primary care setting preferred.
• Understanding of healthcare provision in GP practices essential.

Responsibilities

• Support safe, accurate, and timely supply of prescribed medications.
• Conduct audits regarding patient safety in prescribing.
• Provide administrative support to clinicians regarding medication.

Skills

Communication

Time Management

Problem Solving

Organizational Skills

Education

Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Qualifications as per GPhC criteria

Tools

IT systems knowledge (SystmOne)

Job description

Pharmacy Technician (Ventnor Medical Practice)

Please note, this role is advertised by One Wight Health - GP Federation, on behalf of Ventnor Medical Practice.

Ventnor Medical Practice will be the employer for this post.

Hours: Part-time or Full time

Salary:Up to equivalent of a band 5

VentnorMedical Practice are looking for a Pharmacy Technician who will work directly forthe Practice within a broad team of professionals.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is a Pharmacy Technician and is an integral part of the generalpractice team, working within their professional boundaries.

This role will work under the supervision of the ClinicalPharmacist to ensure the safe, accurate and timely supply of prescribedmedication to patients.

They will provide technical and administrativesupport to the clinicians.

The PharmacyTechnician will support the organisation's clinical teams with queriesregarding medication from patients.

The Pharmacy Technician will completeaudits regarding patient safety in the prescribing of medication and presentthe information for sharing with the clinical team.

About us

At Ventnor Medical Practice we aim to provideholistic patient care within a safe, effective, caring, responsive and friendlyenvironment.To help us achieve this we have well trained,highly skilled clinical and non-clinical teams who enjoy a good work lifebalance to ensure resilience of our team. Our GP Partners and Management team ensurethis is maintained in accordance with local and national policies and isachieved in a responsible financial way.

Job responsibilities

ThePharmacy Technician is to assume the following key responsibilities indelivering health services

a.Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effectivemedicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.

b.Conductmedicine optimisation tasks including effective medicineadministration(e.g., checking inhaler technique), support medication reviewsand medicines reconciliation. When required, utilise consultation skillsto work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicineseffectively.

c.Support,as determined by the organisation, medication reviews and medicinesreconciliation for new care home patients and synchronise medicines for patienttransfers between care settings and linking with local community pharmacists.

d.Providespecialist expertise, when competent, to address both the publichealthand social care needs of patients including lifestyle advice, service informationand help in tackling local health inequalities.

e.Maintaina central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaise withspecialist pharmacists for more complex patients.

f. Supportinitiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriateantibioticprescribing.

g.Assistin the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentiveschemesand patient safety audits.

h.Supportthe implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GPpractices, care homes and other primary care settings. This will be achievedthrough undertaking clinical audits (e.g., use of antibiotics), supporting qualityimprovement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework andenhanced services.

i.Attenda formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once aperformance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regularbasis so that new objectives can be agreed.

j.Contributeto public health campaigns (e.g., COVID-19 or flu clinics) through advice ordirect care.

k.Toalways maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area.

Technical and Administrative:

a.Workwith the multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisationincluding implementing efficient ordering and return processes and reducing wastage.

b.Assistpractice reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requestsso as to allow Clinical Pharmacists to review the more clinically complexrequests.

c.Providesupport for medicines optimisation systems with a range of services to get thebest value from medicines by encouraging and implementing electronicprescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems and timely monitoring andmanagement of high-risk medicines.

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

e.Developrelationships with other Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacists and members of themulti-disciplinary team within the PCN, or wider afield within the locality tosupport the integration of the pharmacy team across health and social careincluding primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and mental health.

f.Supportthe delivery of QOF, incentive schemes, QIPP and other quality or costeffectiveness initiatives.

g.Undertakeany tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role,ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner.

h.Dutiesmay vary from time to time without changing the general character of the postor the level of responsibility.

i. There may be, onoccasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent uponfactors such as workload and staffing levels.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Meets the specific qualification and training requirements as specified by the GPhC criteria to register as a Pharmacy Technician.
• Training requirements and further information are available at GPhC.
• Enrolled in, undertaking or qualified from, an approved training pathway. For example, the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH).

Experience

• Is working under appropriate clinical supervision to ensure safe, effective and efficient use of medicines.
• Experience working in a primary care setting.
• Understanding and knowledge of healthcare provision in GP practices, QOF and enhanced services.
• An appreciation of the new NHS landscape including the relationships between individual practices, PCNs and the commissioners.
• Good clinical system IT knowledge of SystmOne.

Skills

• Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email and face to face.
• Knowledge of IT systems, including the ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports.
• Good personal organisational skills.
• Effective time management.
• Demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience and work well under pressure.

Other requirements

• Flexibility to work outside of core office hours.
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own home.

Qualities and Attributes

• Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.
• Ability to use own initiative, discretion and sensitivity.
• Able to get along with people from all backgrounds and communities, respecting lifestyles and diversity.
• Ability to use own initiative, discretion and sensitivity
• Flexible and cooperative.
• Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals.
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations.
• Able to finish work tasks.
• Problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance and health and safety.

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.