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An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a full time or part time 30 hours Pharmacy Technician to join our multi-disciplinary team at Barnards Medical Centre. This role plays a key part in progressing the PCN vision of creating a new wider Community Service.

As a Pharmacy Technician, you will support the PCNs and the Slade Green's delivery of patient care within their role. You will process medicines for prescriptions, under the supervision of the Pharmacy team, to ensure compliance with medicines management processes to achieve highly effective, safe patient centred prescribing.

You will help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching medications according to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes, including the promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines, contributing to maximising patient outcomes.

You will also significantly contribute to the training and coaching of other pharmacy staff through peer-support, ensuring a safe and high-quality service is delivered, promoting agreed prescribing and pharmaceutical activities or development programmes.

• Provide advice and information to patients/carers collecting their medication prescriptions, according to procedures, providing information about prescription payment, exemption and further supplies as well.
• Effectively carry out medicine administration and technical medication reviews. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
• Manage shared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients.
• Support the production and implementation of new working processes within the practice to optimise the quality of prescribing and patient care.

About us

• Clinical and Patient Client Care
• Provide advise and information to patients/carers collecting their medication prescriptions, according to procedures, providing information about prescription payment, exemption and further supplies as well.
• Effectively carry out medicine administration and technical medication reviews. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
• Manage shared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients.
• Support the production and implementation of new working processes within the practice to optimise the quality of prescribing and patient care.
• Financial & Resources
• To have full knowledge of the budget, and pharmacy practices ensuring best value for money and identifying efficiencies as appropriate, ensuring senior managers are aware of the cost implications of any areas of non-compliance.
• Actively works toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within the practice, the PCN and outside of the PCN. To develop and facilitate a good working relationship with clinical pharmacists and other local providers of healthcare.
• Liaise with colleagues including BHNC Clinical Pharmacists, Technicians, Heads of Medicines Management/Optimisation to benefit from peer support on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.
• Foster and maintain strong links with all services within the practice and across the PCN and neighbouring networks.
• Supports collaborative working and take opportunities to initiate and sustain such key working relationships with stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients, both within PCN and with external across Bexley.
• To manage resources required for key duties under this Job Description, ensuring value for money at all times and maintain budget management responsibility allocated to the job holder in line with the scheme of delegation, develop, where required, cost-benefit analysis for spending and initiatives.
• Research & Development
• Produce patient information leaflets and posters, running medicine awareness projects throughout the year.
• Prepare evidence-based resources and information to support the medicine management team and all other relevant professionals across the PCN, in the implementation of cost-effective, safe, prescribing practices.
• Supports public health campaigns, providing specialist knowledge on public health programmes available to the general public.
• Actively contribute to the development of other pharmacy team staff, through supervision, peer-support, training, and coaching of other pharmacy staff, with a view to promote high-quality, safe service delivery.
• Supports and actively demonstrate Slade Green Medical Centre and PCN visions, aims and business objectives.
• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and providing data and recommendations for clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
• Review and monitor the ongoing need for each patients’ medicine, supporting them with their medicines, ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).
• Policy & Service Development
• Contributes pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
• Supports and promotes the practice repeat prescribing policy, monitoring repeat prescription requests from patients and monitoring medicine review dates, advising senior pharmacy staff of patterns and upcoming reviews.
• Provides information to support the completion of clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs.
• Support the Slade Green Medical Centre and PCN in reviewing and developing practice policies to ensure compliance
• Follows the local health economy’s RAG list for medicines, reviewing where medicines have been prescribed from and highlighting to GPs where medicines should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).
• Participate in audits, where appropriate.
• Contributes to newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.
• Works with the general practice teams to ensure the practices within the PCN are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
• Professional & Organisational Standards
• Maintains confidentiality at all times.
• Represents the organisation positively and professionally.
• Takes responsibility for supporting own development and revalidation, learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model for others.
• Works within policies regarding family violence, vulnerable children and adults, substance abuse and addictive behaviour, and makes referrals as appropriate for safeguarding.
• Supports the implementation of national strategies and policies into local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of the PCN.
• Adheres to and proactively promotes Infection Control standards and complies with Health & Safety, Corporate, Clinical and Information Governance.
• Comply and maintain systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in Care Homes).
• Manage cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.