Pharmacy Technician inNewport Pagnell inNewport Pagnell PUBLISHED
THU 24 OCT 2024
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The role of Pharmacy Technician at Newport Pagnell Medical Centre, offered in a part-time capacity for 18 hours per week, seeks a dedicated and innovative candidate to join the practice team. The technician will support the multidisciplinary team in optimizing medication processes, assist with prescription requests, and manage medication inquiries from patients and healthcare professionals. Responsibilities also include actioning medicine changes as per clinical letters, providing training on safe medication handling, implementing efficient ordering systems, and ensuring compliance with national prescribing policies.
Additionally, the technician will be involved in reauthorizing prescriptions, supporting enhanced services, promoting cost-effective prescribing alternatives, and contributing to effective care transitions between hospital and GP settings. The position offers an opportunity to foster strong working relationships across the organisation and adapt the role over time to meet evolving needs.
Additionally, the technician will be involved in reauthorizing prescriptions, supporting enhanced services, promoting cost-effective prescribing alternatives, and contributing to effective care transitions between hospital and GP settings. The position offers an opportunity to foster strong working relationships across the organisation and adapt the role over time to meet evolving needs.
We have an exciting opportunity for a hardworking, enthusiastic and innovative pharmacy technician to join our practice team, based at Newport Pagnell Medical Centre, but you may be required to work at any of our sites. This role is offered on a part-time basis, for 18 hours per week.
The successful candidate will benefit from this opportunity to build up strong working relationships, across our organisation, and will be actively involved in how their role evolves over time.
- Support the multidisplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation procedures are followed.
- Stream general prescription requests and work with the reception and acute script team, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review more clinically complex requests.
- Assist patients, colleagues and external healthcare professionals with responses to medication queries.
- With support of the GP and pharmacy team, action medicine changes from clinical letters and specialist requests, in line with local formulary and prescribing guidelines.
- Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation and increased use of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
- Implement efficient ordering and return processes and reduce medication wastage.
- Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.
- Reauthorise and synchronise repeat prescriptions appropriately, ensuring patients have had, or are invited to, medication monitoring blood tests and clinical reviews.
- Help to organise and run various systems for the delivery of QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services.
- Support cost-effective prescribing through switching medicines to recommended, cost-effective alternatives
- Review and develop policies in line with CQC compliance.
- Contribute to the delivery of effective daily processes for the transfer of care between hospitals and GPs.
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