Are you a dedicated Pharmacy Technician looking to make a significant impact on patient care?
Debenham Group Practice, part of Suffolk Primary Care, is seeking a skilled and compassionate Pharmacy Technician to join our dynamic multi-disciplinary team. Located in the rural town of Debenham, this role offers a genuine opportunity to make a real difference in improving the quality and safety of care we provide to our patients. Debenham Group Practice deploys a diverse multi-disciplinary team and a supportive environment, one in which we hope you will thrive. This role offers flexible working hours.
Main duties of the job
1. Undertake patient-facing and patient-supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use through shared-decision-making conversations with patients.
2. Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews, and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
3. Support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients, synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, and linking with local community pharmacists.
4. Provide specialist expertise, where 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. Take 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. 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 efficient medicines optimisation.
8. Help guide and advise practice care navigation in sorting and streaming general prescription requests to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.
9. Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems across practices, supporting with a range of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and implementing Electronic Prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines.
10. Provide training and support on the legal, safe, and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
11. Plan and organise own workload, and support Clinical Pharmacists and colleagues, as well as patients and carers.
12. Maintain registration as a pharmacy technician and comply with appropriate professional codes.
13. Maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with medical/therapeutic evidence and opinion, local and national service, legislation, and policy developments. Agree on objectives and a personal development plan, and participate in the appraisal process.
14. Attend local, regional, and national meetings of relevance as agreed with the post holder's line manager.
15. Undertake any other duties commensurate with the post holder's grade as agreed with the post holder's line manager.
Person Specification
Experience
* Have 3 years' experience as a pharmacy technician within a hospital, community or primary care setting.
* Experience of Clinical Audit.
* Experience of using TPP SystmOne.
* Ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges.
Qualifications
* GCSE in Maths, English and Science or equivalent NVQ.
* Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Services and be registered with the GPhC.
* Evidence of Continued Professional Development.
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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