Pharmacy Technician - St Helens Medical Centre

The Pharmacy

Technician will play an important role in supporting our multi-disciplinary

team, working under clinical supervision to ensure effective and efficient use

of medicines. The role will

support the practice and patients to get the best from their medicines, use existing

protocols to maximise cost-effective preparations, improve repeat prescribing processes,

minimise clinical risk, reduce medicines wastage and assist the practice in achieving

local and national medicines-related objectives.

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AND RESPONSIBILITIES

supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared

decision-making conversations with patients.

searches to support medication reviews, medicines reconciliation from clinic

letters and post hospital discharge medicines reconciliation.

medicine administration, supporting medication reviews and medicines

reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in

partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.

eligible patients for Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs), including

completing any required SMR pre-work.

reconciliation for new patients and synchronising medicines for patient

transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacists, and

referring to Prescribers for structured medication reviews.

to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including

lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health

inequalities.

a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising

with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients.

initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic

prescribing.

with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines

optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return

processes and reducing wastage.

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

including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).

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.

practice reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription

requests, to allow GPs and Prescribers to review the more clinically

complex requests.

agreed clinical protocols and supporting with the efficient ordering of

medicines.

role will also require pharmacy technicians to 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. In addition, pharmacy technicians will

assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation incentive schemes (e.g.,

medicines switches) and patient safety audits.

technicians will provide leadership for medicines management systems,

supporting the practice 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).

patients that are overdue required monitoring and refer to the appropriate

clinicians.

shared care protocols are in place where relevant and ensure the

continuation of safe practice within primary care is maintained.

ensuring timely monitoring and compliance.

GENERAL

Maintain

registration with GPhC.

We are a progressive and thriving, 2 partner Practice located in a prime coastal part of the Isle of Wight serving an affluent elderly population. Serving a patient list size of approximately 6,700 patients, we operate out of our own, purpose-built, well-equipped premises, with a branch surgery in the neighbouring village of Bembridge.

We seek to progress, develop and maintain high standards in our busy training practice. We are actively engaged in commissioning and innovations to develop our services to meet local population needs and have consistently high QOF and QPSS achievement.

Qualifications

Knowledge and Skills

Experience