PCN Pharmacy Technician - hybrid inHarrogate inHarrogate PUBLISHED
TUE 22 OCT 2024
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Key responsibilities include conducting patient consultations to ensure effective medicine use, performing medication administration checks, and providing lifestyle advice to address public health needs. The role also entails supporting the implementation of national prescribing policies, participating in clinical audits, and enhancing the integration of pharmacy services across various healthcare settings. Overall, the position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to improving patient outcomes within a supportive and dynamic healthcare environment.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly and high achieving team at Mowbray Square PCN (Primary Care Network), based in central Harrogate.
The role can be either based fully in practice or a hybrid role with a minimum requirement to be in the practices 4 days per week.
This is an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to provide excellent care alongside our wider clinical team which includes GPs, ACPs, Nurses, Nurse Associates, Health Care Assistants, First Contact Physiotherapists, First Contact Mental Health Practitioners, Social Prescribers, and our Care Navigator Team.
The role will support Mowbray Square PCN to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and efficient systems for medicines and related care including repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes.
About us
The following describes the key responsibilities that the postholder will deliver and/or work towards delivering after supported ongoing development.
- Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
- Carry out medicine optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation.
- Utilise a range of consultation and communication skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
- Support, as determined by the PCN, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients, synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking with local community pharmacies.
- Provide 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.
- 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.
- Work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation.
- Triage general medication requests allowing GPs and clinical pharmacists to review those that are more complex.
- Develop 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.
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