Senior Pharmacy Technician (Primary Care)

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Whitley Bay; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

NPC North Tyneside Neighbourhood practices is seeking a Senior Pharmacy Technician to coordinate the medicine hub activities and maintain high standards of patient care. You will work under the Clinical Pharmacy Service to deliver medicines management in a primary care setting, including medicines reconciliation and processing repeat prescriptions.

You will collaborate with the clinical and managerial team, supervise staff where needed, and contribute to medicines management audits and

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating medicine hub activities to maintain high standard patient care.
• Ability to work with clinical and managerial teams in primary care.
• Supervisory experience of pharmacy staff.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside staff to prioritise workload and may supervise pharmacy staff.
• Interpret prescriptions for drug problems, ensuring safety and referring as needed.
• Interpret medicine supply information and ensure continuation of supply.
• Assist and coach practice staff in data collection for reviews and audits.
• Support governance and operational issues; collaborate with the Clinical Pharmacy Service.

Skills

Team supervision

Medicines management

Data analysis

Communication

Job description

Working for NPC North Tyneside Neighbourhood practices, you will be working between 49 Marine Avenue, Park Parade, Nelson and Spring Terrace surgeries. The Senior Pharmacy Technician will co-ordinate the medicine hub activities to the extent necessary to ensure the development and maintenance of a high standard of patient care, sound teamwork and close co-operation with the clinical and managerial team. The post holder will work under the management of the Clinical Pharmacy Service to deliver a comprehensive medicines management in a primary care setting to ensure a safe and efficient service is maintained, delivering a range of medicines management activities including medicines reconciliation and repeat prescription requests. Pharmacy staff in all sectors and other healthcare professionals will ensure a patient orientated medicines management service is provided, conducting medicines reviews for patients. To work closely with the Clinical Pharmacist to adopt a team approach to medicines management. To work with the Clinical Pharmacist to develop and undertake medicines management audits, to support discussion within the practice and agree subsequent actions.,

• Work alongside other staff and develop their skills to prioritise workload. May supervise medicines technicians, Pharmacy technicians, student pharmacy technicians and pre-registration pharmacists.
• Interpret prescriptions for drug problems such as drug dosage, form and administration. Considers legality, clarity and risk associated with prescribed medicines and prescriptions and make basic interventions to ensure medicines are safe for patients and be able to refer as appropriate to medicines management technician or pharmacist.
• Interpret basic medicine supply information and consider appropriate solutions ensure continuation of supply, referring as appropriate. Assess situations concerning the availability of prescribed medicines and refer non-standard prescriptions to relevant authority.
• Assist and coach practice staff in the collation and analysis of data for reviews/ audits as required improving medicines management within the practice.
• Support embedded systems to ensure governance and operational issues are reviewed, discussed weekly with the team and escalated as required. Northumbria Primary Care Ltd (NPC) is a pioneering partnership with local GPs and now manages several GP practices with around 130,000 registered patients in Northumberland and North Tyneside.

Whilst appointees will have a base practice within NPC, they may be asked to work at other practices across our group. We do however limit this as much as possible as we appreciate continuity is vital to effective primary care. Please note that NPC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.