Practice Pharmacy Technician

Brookside Group Practice; Reading; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 34,000; Part time

Job summary

Brookside Group Practice in Reading is seeking a Practice Pharmacy Technician to join our dynamic team on a 20-hour week. You will reconcile medications for patients returning to primary care and liaise with patients and providers to ensure appropriate medication on discharge.

You will proactively support patients at risk of readmission, provide telephone responses to medication queries, and manage requests to prescribe from specialists in line with local formulary and guidelines.

Qualifications

• No formal qualifications listed in the advert.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile the medications of patients whose care is transferred back to primary care in a timely and effective manner liaising with patients and other providers to ensure patients receive appropriate medication on discharge.
• Proactively engage with patients whose care has been transferred to reduce potential readmission including identifying and rectifying unexplained variation.
• Provide telephone support for patients with medication queries.
• Manage requests to prescribe medication from specialists in line with Berkshire West formulary and locally agreed guidelines.
• Develop safe, effective and efficient systems for the repeat prescribing of medication at scale across the PCN.
• Develop and implement systems to ensure the effective and continuous supply of medication to high-risk patients, and ensure safe and effective management of high risk medication.
• Develop and implement changes to medicines in line with MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local or national guidance.

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Practice Pharmacy Technician to join our dynamic and forward-thinking team at Brookside Group Practice working 20 hours a week., Reconcile the medications of patients whose care is transferred back to primary care in a timely and effective manner liaising with patients and other providers to ensure patients receive appropriate medication on discharge. Proactively engage with patients whose care has been transferred to reduce potential readmission including identifying and rectifying unexplained variation. Provide telephone support for patients with medication queries. Manage requests to prescribe medication from specialists in line with Berkshire West formulary and locally agreed guidelines. Work with pharmacy service team to:

• Develop safe, effective and efficient systems for the repeat prescribing of medication at scale across the PCN.
• Develop and implement systems to ensure the effective and continuous supply of medication to high-risk patients, and ensure safe and effective management of high risk medication
• Develop and implement changes to medicines in line with MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local or national guidance, Due to our size, we value communication and teamwork. We operate a strongly relational team structure and endeavour to listen well, encourage ownership and involvement and enable staff to grow in their individual development. We, therefore, spend a lot of time investing in team meetings and communication across the organisation. We are a member of Berkshire West Clinical Commissioning Group.

We recently won the HSJ (Health Services Journal) Digital Award for our innovative work we've done to refine our triage processes and model of care. Other key aspects of the Practice include: Use of Anima to aid triage/consultation Strong IT and systems including Emis Web, Accu-Rx, DXS, ANIMA Documents Longstanding Training Practice with GP Registrars, Physician Assistants trainees and others

The Practice serves approximately 31,000 patients from our 4 surgeries in Earley, Lower Earley, Winnersh and Wilderness Road.