Pharmacy Technician

To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work.

To ensure compliance with appropriate medicines legislation.

To provide a safe and specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

Undertaking

medication reviews, including reviews to ensure adherence to monitoring and

shared care protocols.

Ensuring

patient safety when they are transferred between care providers through

reconciliation of prescribed medicines.

patients regarding changes to their medicines in a professional manner and have

the capacity to support and reassure patients when necessary, dealing with any

issues or concerns that may arise within the boundaries of the post.

assess and facilitate patient concordance with prescribed medicines.To record all relevant pharmaceutical information in patient's medical notes and interventions in line with practice policy.

Carry out housekeeping whilst in patient records e.g. dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation.

Conduct

appropriate clinical/physical assessments e.g. BP, pulse and pulse oximetry

(within approved competence)

Provide

vaccinations within scope of practice and under suitable direction.

Analyse

and interpret prescribing data from a range of sources.

Support

improvements in clinical care through regular practice-based audit and

implementing change.

Liaise

with Clinical Pharmacist, GPs & Community Pharmacists on issues regarding

medication supply.

with medication related queries from patients and staff on a day-to-day basis.

Assist practice with MHRA drug alerts, where appropriate and within levels of competence. Working with the practice to ensure actions are undertaken over an appropriate time frame and to advise on any medication changes that occur as a result.

Promote

cost-effective, safe, evidence-based prescribing in accordance with national

and local guidance.

Develop

good working relationships within the practice to engage stakeholders in

effective and cost-efficient prescribing practice.

with the wider multidisciplinary team on issues of medication supply.

To take

the lead to provide prescribers with reports and interpretations of prescribing

data, to help support them in achieving cost effective use of medicines and to

facilitate change where necessary.

To

contribute to investigations or significant events that are medication related.

Communicate

complex, highly sensitive information with potential barriers to understanding.

undertake thorough reasoned analysis on possible medications switches which

maintain the quality of therapy of the original drug with a lower average unit

cost.

undertake analyses of prescribing processes which maintain or increase patient

safety but also eliminate waste and duplication.

Ensure

working practice follows all current data protection requirements, i.e.

Caldicott, Data Protection Act, local Confidentiality Agreements, etc.

information, including converting raw prescribing data into meaningful graphs,

reports etc. to disseminate at education sessions.

To use

relevant IT system(s) to accurately record activity / data as appropriate for

job role within an agreed time frame.

To support the implementation and active development of a wide range of medicines

management Standard Operating Policies (SOPs), requiring good knowledge of the

relevant policies.

Promoting

the use of SOPs/good practice guides to support system improvements within the

team and General Practice. E.g. Develop a repeat prescribing SOPs

all healthcare professionals who use medicines, through the delivery of

technical services, to promote cost effective use of medicines. This involves

the monitoring of medicines usage and their trends. Audits of patients to

ensure appropriate cost-effective prescribing and adherence of prescribers to

local formularies/guidelines.

Implement

appropriate changes to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe, cost

effective and evidence-based prescribing within the patient medication records.

personal duty of care in relation to equipment and resources in course of work.

To work

with all of the health and social care professions to ensure there is sound

practice and understanding of patient medication supply issues.

To be

involved in the training of staff who use medicines around the technical

aspects of safe and cost-effective medicine usage.

work is of a wide variety and prioritisation of workload will be required.

To contribute to sage transfer of care and planning for the patient. To work with patient's GP and pharmacists to expedite efficient and seamless discharges/out-patient correspondence in an effective and efficient way.

participate in continuing professional development/review and annual appraisal,

facilitated using Personal Development Plans. Including a review of what

aspects of your role are being done well, and the identification of any areas

for development.

contribute, under the direction of senior pharmacy staff, to the

training/supervision of other NHS staff including foundation/pre-registration

and pharmacy undergraduates.

Checks

and enters patient details on computerised records system from prescriptions or

clinic letters prepared by other health care professionals.

Creates

prescribing activity spreadsheets/databases to support patient monitoring,

audit and quality improvement projects.

Utilises

different electronic prescribing tools to identify patients at risk

continuing professional development as required by GPhC for continued

registration.

CPPE 15-month Primary Care Pharmacy Education pathway (PCPEP) or other

accredited postgraduate qualifications relevant to general practice as required

and if not already completed.

To

support the development of skills and knowledge of new team members and pre-registration

trainees.

provide ad hoc training sessions for staff on medicines SOPs.

On-going

training of practice staff on safe management of medicines.

Undertake

surveys or audits to improve patient care and quality of work performed by self

and other team members.

To

provide regular monthly audits of medications used in General Practice and to

provide feedback on safe medication use.

Springwood Surgery is a thriving semi-rural

practice providing care to approximately 7,500 patients in the beautiful market

town of Guisborough on the edge of the North York Moors. We have a friendly and supportive team of six

GP Partners, two salaried GPs, a highly-trained and skilled nursing team,

excellent Practice Manager and effective administrative team.

We are supported by a wider multidisciplinary

team provided by our PCN - including a Musculoskeletal Advanced Practitioner,

Mental Health Practitioner Service, Care Coordinators, and Social Prescribing

Link Workers.

We are an established and active training

practice. Three of our GPs are GP

Trainers, two of these are Training Programme Directors for the Durham &

provide placements for GP Specialty Trainees, Foundation Doctors and

Undergraduate Medical Education (Years 3,4 and 5 from Newcastle

University). One of our GPs is a Medical

tutor for CPPE.

We use SystmOne including Ardens and

AnalyseRx. Our last CQC assessment was

good in all areas. Our Surgery premises

have recently undergone a full renovation.

We are a member of East Cleveland Group PCN and one of our GPs is the

Clinical Director of the PCN.

Experience

Essential: - Experience of prescribing/clinical systems such as SystmOne; - Recent experience within comparable role in General Practice

Knowledge and Skills

Qualifications

Essential: - Registered with the GPhC as a Pharmacy Technician

Desirable: - Medicines reconciliation certificate or equivalent