Pharmacy Technician inBury St Edmunds inBury St Edmunds PUBLISHED MON 21 OCT 2024

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the West Suffolk Alliance Medicines Optimisation Team.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, self-motivated Pharmacy Technician who would like to join our friendly and innovative team. Prior experience within this sector of pharmacy is not essential as you will be provided with close peer support and the training required to help you succeed in this varied and challenging role.

The successful candidate(s) will work closely with GP practices and Primary Care Networks (PCNs) across West Suffolk, building trusted relationships and supporting the implementation of medicines optimisation initiatives. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work with competing priorities and demands.

Full time hours are available, with no requirement for weekend, bank holiday or evening working. We also welcome applications for part-time working. We promote flexible working for all team members, offering a mix of remote, office, and practice-based environments which support a healthy work-life balance. Salary is in accordance with the NHS AfC pay scale, and we offer NHS pension and benefits.

If you would like to know more about being part of this collaborative and inclusive team that values individual contributions, or for any questions you may have, please contact (Principal Pharmacy Technician) or (Senior Pharmacy Technician).

Have knowledge and understanding of the ICB Cost Improvement Programme (CIP) plan and support its implementation at practice level.

Participate in the delivery of one or more CIP projects.

Have knowledge of guidelines and policies developed in response to NICE or NHS England publications and directives such as new/revised clinical guidelines, low priority prescribing, and self-care, and support their implementation at practice level.

Build professional, trusted relationships with practice and PCN teams to ensure effective communication on issues relating to prescribing and population health needs.

Provide practices and PCN teams with timely and accurate bench marking and prescribing performance data, supporting them to manage their prescribing budgets whilst adhering to to local guidelines and the SNEE joint formulary

Analyse practice prescribing data from a variety of sources to identify key areas for improvement in safety, quality, and cost-effective prescribing. The post-holder will require excellent communication and influencing skills to challenge prescribing practice, whilst building ongoing and trusted relationships with practice staff. This may require significant mental effort.

Actively participate in, contribute to, and represent the Medicines Optimisation team at public facing events.

About us

To support system wide integration, working with wider health and care professionals to ensure that medicines practice in health and care delivery settings are joined up.

To help develop and support the implementation of a wide range of medicine optimisation strategies across West Suffolk and SNEE to:

o improve health outcomes;

o reduce avoidable harm;

o avoid waste.

To improve the health of the population by optimising the use of medicines through:

o promoting the safe, evidence-based, and cost-effective use of medicines;

o providing up to date, unbiased information about medicines, treatments, and care pathways;

o supporting practitioners and patients to make the best use of medicines;

o minimising the harm caused by medicines;

o supporting development of local guidelines and care pathways to optimise the use of medicines;

o supporting other health and care providers to deliver medicines optimisation in a way that is safe, high quality, timely, effective, and equitable.

The post-holder will work within organisational policy and professional/ethical guidelines and without supervision.

The post-holder will support ongoing improvement across all areas of Medicines Optimisation and will facilitate the implementation of change in their areas of responsibility.

The post-holder will act independently, identifying the need for and developing programmes of work aligned to their own portfolio and/or organisational priorities. Their work will be partly self-directed.

The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.

The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.