Main area: Pharmacy, medicines management, technician, prescribing
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
Hybrid working: between multiple sites and home
Job ref: 996-ICB-5355-25
Employer: NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB
Employer type: NHS
Site: The Council House, First floor, Town Derby
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 pa, pro-rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 05/02/2025
NHS AfC: Band 5
NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the health statutory body for the Derby City and Derbyshire population. ICSs are partnerships of health and care organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined-up services and to improve the health of people who live and work in their area. Serving a total population of 1,053,000 with a budget of over £1.6 billion, the ICB has a staff base of approximately 500 people.
At DDICB we are passionate about making diversity and inclusion part of our DNA. We have staff engagement forums, a diversity and inclusion network run by and for our people, and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. Together, we are building an inclusive culture, where difference is celebrated and people feel able to bring their whole self to work.
We are a disability confident employer and offer a range of family-friendly, flexible working arrangements and inclusive employment policies to support our people in the workplace.
Job overview
2 WTE substantive posts.
NHS Derby and Derbyshire ICB Pharmacy Team are seeking qualified pharmacy technicians with experience of working in primary care to contribute to the development and implementation of the medicines optimisation plan. You should have a BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences or NVQ level 3, be registered or eligible to register with the GPhC, and have demonstrable post-qualification experience.
The role will be based either at The Council House in Derby or Scarsdale in Chesterfield. There is a requirement to travel to GP practices across Derbyshire.
Derby & Derbyshire ICB organisation is now working to a hybrid model, with staff splitting their time between base, GP practices, and working remotely.
Main duties of the job
Working with a number of GP practices across Derbyshire, you will be delivering prescribing-related cost-efficiencies and minimising medicines waste in line with agreed standard operating procedures.
Providing education, advice, and support to practices to improve the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness of prescribing.
Retrieve, analyse, interpret, and present patient-related prescribing and clinical data from practice clinical computer systems and written notes to allow a clinical decision about medicines to be made by the clinician.
Implement prescribing changes and inform the patient, practice staff, and local community pharmacies.
Deliver education to healthcare professionals, care home and social care staff, patients, and the public to promote effective medicines optimisation.
Liaise with GPs, secondary care, community social care, community pharmacy, other providers, patients, and carers to deliver medicines optimisation.
Maintain confidentiality at all times in line with data protection and Caldicott guidance.
Working for our organisation
At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working-friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Education
* BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent
* Registered with GPhC
Experience
* Demonstrable post-qualification experience
* Experience in primary care
* Experience in hospital
* Experience in community pharmacy
Communication
* Skills for communication on complex information and administrative matters, requiring developed interpersonal and oral/written communication skills;
* Conflict resolution skills and the ability to resolve issues in a prompt and professional manner
* Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data, and letters
Physical skills
* Skills for manipulating information. Advanced keyboard skills, use of a range of software.
Autonomy
* Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales, working flexibly around conflicting demands.
* Ability to work as part of a team and work flexibly to provide support to other departments and teams as and when necessary;
Values
* Demonstrate the behaviours that underpin the ICBs core value of 'One Team'
NO AGENCIES PLEASE.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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