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In addition to clinical responsibilities, the role encompasses technical and administrative duties, including developing efficient processes for medication handling, training staff on legal medication management, and processing monthly claims. Successful candidates must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council and are encouraged to pursue ongoing training via the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway or related programs. The position requires collaboration with various healthcare stakeholders to enhance the integration and effectiveness of pharmaceutical services within the primary care framework.
Pharmacy technicians play an important role, complementing clinical pharmacists, community pharmacists and other members of the PCN multi- disciplinary team. Pharmacy technicians are different to clinical pharmacists as they are not able to prescribe or make clinical decisions, instead working under supervision to ensure effective and efficient use of medicines.
Pharmacy technicians core role responsibilities will cover clinical, and technical and administrative categories.
Clinical
a) Patient supporting role to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making.
b) Medicines optimisation tasks -effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. Utilise consultation skills to work with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
c) 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.
d) Provide specialist expertise, to both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.
e) Supporting initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.
Technical and Administrative:
a) PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation and implementing efficient ordering and return processes and reducing wastage.
b) Providing training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
c) Processing monthly PPA claims.
About us
JOB TITLE
Pharmacy Technician
EMPLOYING TRUST
East Croydon Medical Centre
CONTRACT TYPE
Permanent / Full-time ARRS Contract
ACCOUNTABLETO
Practice Manager
Job Summary
Pharmacy technicians play an important role, complementing clinical pharmacists, community pharmacists and other members of the PCN multi- disciplinary team. Pharmacy technicians are different to clinical pharmacists as they are not able to prescribe or make clinical decisions, instead working under supervision to ensure effective and efficient use of medicines.
Pharmacy technicians core role responsibilities will cover clinical, and technical and administrative categories.
Duties and Responsibilities Clinical
a) Undertaking patient supporting roles to ensure
effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
b) Carrying 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.
c) As determined by the PCN, supporting 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.
d) Providing 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.
e) Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients.
f) Supporting initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.
Technical and Administrative:
a) Working with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return processes and reducing wastage.
b) Providing training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
c) Developing 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.
d) Supervising practice reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.
e) Processing monthly PPA claims.
The 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.
Pharmacy technicians will provide leadership for medicines management systems across PCNs, supporting practices 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).
Training requirements
All pharmacy technicians must have completed or be enrolled in, be undertaking or be prepared to start an approved 18-month training pathway (e.g. Primary care pharmacy educational pathway (PCPEP) or Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH)). Pharmacy technicians must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. Entry to the PCPEP programme will include the option for an accreditation of Prior Learning (APEL) process.
Eligibility for reimbursement under the Network Contract DES and proposals for reimbursement
Confidentiality:
In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data
This job description is not exhaustive and may be adjusted periodically after review and consultation. You will also be expected to carry out any reasonable duties which may be requested from time-to-time.
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