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: Full time
Salary: £14.50 per hour
Ventnor Medical Practice is looking for a Pharmacy Technician who will work directly for the 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 general practice team, working within their professional boundaries.
This role will work under the supervision of the Clinical Pharmacist to ensure the safe, accurate, and timely supply of prescribed medication to patients.
They will provide technical and administrative support to the clinicians.
The Pharmacy Technician will support the organisation's clinical teams with queries regarding medication from patients.
The Pharmacy Technician will complete audits regarding patient safety in the prescribing of medication and present the information for sharing with the clinical team.
Job Responsibilities
The Pharmacy Technician is to assume the following key responsibilities in delivering health services:
1. Undertake patient-facing and patient-supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
2. Conduct medicine optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g., checking inhaler technique), support medication reviews, and medicines reconciliation. When required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
3. Support, as determined by the organisation, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronise medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking with local community pharmacists.
4. Provide specialist expertise, when competent, to address both the public health and social care needs of patients including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.
5. Maintain a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaise with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients.
6. Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.
7. Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits.
8. Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes, and other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking clinical audits (e.g., use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures, and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services.
9. Attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed.
10. Contribute to public health campaigns (e.g., COVID-19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care.
11. Always maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area.
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
* 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
* 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.
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