Pharmacy Technician

The successful candidate will be working alongside our current Pharmacy Technicians to provide support to our multi disciplinary team by processing medicines for prescriptions, whilst under the supervision of our Clinical Pharmacists to ensure compliance with medicines management processes achieve highly effective, safe patient centred prescribing.

Undertaking

patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use,

through shared decision-making conversations with patients.

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.

medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and

synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking

with local community pharmacists, and referring to the pharmacist for

structured medication reviews.

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.

Taking

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

with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients.

Supporting

initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic

prescribing.

Audits

Provide assistance and support with audits

undertaken by the Practice Managers, Partners, Salaried GPs, GP Registrars,

Medical Students and the wider Practice Team.

Technical and

Working

with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines

optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return processes

and reducing wastage.

Providing

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

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

relationships with 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.

Supervising and line managing practice prescribing team in sorting and streaming general prescription

requests, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more

clinically complex requests.

Support

implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP

Practice, care homes and other primary care settings.

Quality Improvement measures and participation in Prescribing Quality Scheme,

supporting Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services.

Additional tasks

Other duties as per Partners instructions as

dictated by changes in the nature of the Whitstable Medical Practice.

Whitstable Medical Practice is a forward thinking single practice Primary Care Network (PCN) GP Practice based across 3 sites in Whitstable. There are 22 equity GP Partners looking after over 45,500 patients. We pride ourselves on our innovative approach to Primary Care.

Our Practice was the only GP Practice named in the NHS 10-year Health Plan for its innovation and care.

We are a training practice and our state-of-the-art buildings provide access to a wide range of services and facilities, including:

Experience

Skills and Abilities

Desirable: - A team player who is able to promote good practices and motivate others

Qualifications

Desirable: - Primary Care pharmacy educational pathway (PCPEP); - Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH)