Pharmacy Technician 37.5 hours per week

The purpose of the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost effective best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care. The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practice, including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines. In addition, the post holder will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments. This will involve assisting the PCN in achieving national requirements, NICE implementation and utilisation of medicines optimisation initiatives.

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. As determined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies

large forward thinking and well-integrated PCN covering the westerly point of

Cornwall comprising of seven GP practices. The PCN have recently implemented a

pharmacy virtual hub which supports practices to complete project & audit

work as well as functioning as a space for sharing best practice across the

PCN.

The post holder will be contributing

towards a one team culture throughout the organisation and promoting

personalised care, focused on what matters to you, not what's the matter

with you. The post holder will be an

integral part of the practice team working as part of the multi-disciplinary

team of doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants and reception/administrators, as

well as functioning as a member of the wider PCN pharmacy team.

general practice;

integration of the pharmacy technician within general practice & promote

issues relevant to prescribing and medicines optimisation.

and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared

decision-making conversations with patients;

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;

the PCN, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home

patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care

settings and linking with local community pharmacists;

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;

clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialist

pharmacists for more complex patients;

antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing;

medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety

audits;

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.

information systems and databases relevant to the positions including incident

reporting, medicines optimisation, prescribing data, cost savings and patient

outcomes;

organisation, planning of own workload & meet set deadlines;

multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including

implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage;

reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, to

allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex

requests;

medicines optimisation systems across PCNs, supporting practices 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;

support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the

implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS);

other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the multi-disciplinary

team to support integration of the pharmacy team across health and social care

including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health.

Penwith PCN has around 67,000 registered practice population, in the far West of the country and is a large, forward-thinking, well-integrated network of7 GP practices. Our geography includes some remote rural locations as well as towns, surrounded on 3 sides by the coast. This role may be working mainly from one practice, but the successful applicant may be required to change location as per the business's needs.

We are looking to recruit a Pharmacy Technician to work with GP practices in and around Penzance, as part of Penwith Primary Care Network (PCN)in West Cornwall. The location listed is the business address, and not necessarily the work location. Additionally, this is a practice-based role, not remote, with technicians working day-to-day alongside GPs, nurses and the wider multidisciplinary team.

We will consider part-time to full-time hours, and you will have the opportunity to be responsible for your own GP practice, allowing you to build strong relationships with patients and practice staff while being supported by the wider PCN pharmacy team.

This role is ideal for a Pharmacy Technician who enjoys patient-facing work, values continuity within a practice team, and wants to contribute to a one team culture-focused on personalised care and medicines optimisation within general practice. We are happy to support technicians through the primary care pharmacy education pathway where needed.

NB - Please note that previous applicants need not apply.

Qualifications

Desirable: - Desirable criteria; - Minimum of 2 years' experience in primary care