This Pharmacy Technician role will be a PCN role aligned to Yarm Medical Practice for the full working hours.
The postholder 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 Practice 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.
Main duties of the job
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 reviews and medicines reconciliation. When required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medications 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, 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. Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits.
About us
We are a premises-owning, five Partner, training practice with a growing list size, currently around 15,000. We have two Salaried GPs, a Clinical Pharmacist, two Advanced Care Practitioners, two Nurse Practitioners, three Practice Nurses, one Nursing Associate, and two Healthcare Assistants, and a strong close-knit administrative team providing clinical support.
As well as the Practice staff, patients can also access additional roles including Social Prescribers, Adult and Child Mental Health Workers, Physicians Associate, and First Contact Practitioners through BYTES Primary Care Network.
We have a strong reputation as a teaching and training Practice. We share our passion for Primary Care through providing placements for sixth form students, teaching all years of medical/nursing students, allied health professionals, and GP Registrars. Each week we provide 'clinical huddle' as well as 'lunch and learn' for all staff, where we have covered topic areas such as menopause, dementia awareness, and self-defense.
Job responsibilities
When a practice employs or engages a Pharmacy Technician, the organisation must ensure that they have the key clinical, technical, and administrative responsibilities as outlined within this job description for delivering health services.
The postholder 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 Practice 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.
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.
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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