Senior Pharmacy Technician

NHS; Rugby; On-site; GBP 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Rugby is seeking an experienced Pharmacy Technician to lead a team and oversee clinical services within a dynamic pharmacy environment. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership and clinical skills, experience in primary care, and a commitment to patient safety and quality service. The position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to work across multiple locations in the PCN footprint.

Benefits

On-site parking

Flexible working hours

Training and support

Qualifications

• Registered with the GPhC as a Pharmacy Technician.
• Completed CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway.
• 2 years experience in a Primary Care setting.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of Pharmacy Technicians.
• Conduct patient-facing roles for medicines optimisation.
• Implement national prescribing policies.

Skills

Leadership

Patient communication

Attention to detail

Analytical thinking

Problem-solving

Education

GPHC Registration as a Pharmacy Technician

BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent

Completed CPPE Pathway

Tools

EMIS

Microsoft Office

Job description

If you are an experienced Pharmacy Technician with at least 2 years Primary Care experience and a particular interest in leadership, then we have anexciting opportunity for you to help shape our future dispensary services. Working with our enthusiasticand dynamic pharmacy team to provide the best clinical service for patients, you will liaise closely withother healthcare professionals. The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, experienced medicinemanagement pharmacy technician with good clinical skills and managerial skills with a working knowledgeof the medicines optimisation agenda.

Main duties of the job

Lead and line manage the team of 6 Pharmacy Technicians located across the practices within Rugby Health PCN. Provide mentorship and guidance to the team to support each ofthem to develop in their roles.

Assist the Advanced Practitioner- Clinical Pharmacist Lead operationally to oversee the PCN Clinical Pharmacyservice provided through the Pharmacy Technicians.

Manage and monitor performance of other Rugby Health Pharmacy Technicians by assistingwith recruitment and on-going performance management to include interviewing, induction andprobation review.

About us

Rugby Health is a private company limited by shares, whollyowned by all the Rugby GP practices. As a GP led organisation, we represent 12GP practice shareholders and cover over 125,000 patients. We describe our work as building on the coreof current primary care services and enable greater provision of proactive,personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care. Our aimis to move from reactively providing appointments to proactively caring for thepeople and communities we serve.

Why Work For Us?

On-site parking at GP practices

Flexible hours and working arrangements considered from day 1

Dynamic and adaptable team

Training and support, enabling you to develop within the role

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

Undertake patient facing and patient supportingroles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-makingconversations with patients

Carry out medicines optimisation tasks includingeffective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supportingmedication reviews, and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utiliseconsultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they usetheir medicines effectively

Support, as determined by the PCN, medicationreviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients andsynchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linkingwith local community pharmacists.

Provide specialist expertise, where competent,to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, includinglifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local healthinequalities; e. take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared careprotocols and liaising with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients

Take a central role in the clinical aspects ofshared care protocols and liaising with specialist pharmacists for more complexpatients

Support initiatives for antimicrobialstewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing

Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisationand management incentive schemes and patient safety audits

Support the implementation of nationalprescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and otherprimary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking clinicalaudits (e.g. use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures andcontributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services

Technical and Administrative Responsibilities:

Work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team toensure efficient medicines optimisation, including implementing efficientordering and return processes, and reducing wastage

Supervise practice reception teams in sortingand streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and clinicalpharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests

Provide leadership for medicines optimisationsystems across the PCN, supporting practices with a range of services to getthe best value from medicines by encouraging and implementing ElectronicPrescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and timely monitoring andmanagement of high-risk medicines

Provide training and support on the legal, safeand secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of theElectronic Prescription Service (EPS)

Develop relationships with other pharmacytechnicians, pharmacists and members of the multi-disciplinary team to supportintegration of the pharmacy team across health and social care includingprimary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health

Handle specific information, which may besensitive, complex or confidential and appropriately recording, transferringand/or coordinating such information in accordance with the Data ProtectionAct; Caldicott Guidelines and the Confidentiality Code of Conduct

To be responsible for the organisation andplanning of own workload to meet set deadlines

To undertake learning and development tomaintain the required knowledge and skills for practice-based work

To carry out other duties which are appropriateto the skills and competencies of the post holder and grade of the post as thepriorities of the service change

Any other duties as maybe requested by the Clinical Lead or Operations Director of the PCN

You will be registered with the GPhC as a Pharmacy Technician and have completed the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway

Person Specification

Other

• Self-motivated
• Adaptable
• Full Driving Licence and access to a car

Qualifications

• GPHC Registration as a Pharmacy Technician
• BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmacy services
• Completed CPPE Pathway
• Accredited checking technician

Experience

• 2 years Primary Care experience
• Experience of supervising a clinical team
• Experience of leadership
• Comfortably computer literate with an ability to use
• clinical systems (desirable) and Microsoft office packages
• Understand the aims of current healthcare policy 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 with
• team members, patients, carers, and other healthcare
• professionals. Whilst recognising peoples needs for
• alternative methods of communication
• Influencing and negotiating skills
• An excellent understanding of data protection and
• confidentiality issues
• Experience of performance management
• EMIS User Skills
• Experience of medicines reconciliation
• Understanding of community pharmacy systems
• Ability to develop and implement policy and
• procedure to sustain a quality service
• Understanding of QOF/PCN DES/IIF

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.

Various locations across the PCN footprint

£36,852 a yearwith access to NHS Pension

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Reference number

A5360-25-0009

Job locations

Various locations across the PCN footprint