Care Home Pharmacy Technician inDarlington inDarlington PUBLISHED 8 NOV 2024
Primary Healthcare Darlington rLSSKo2N
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The interview date for this role will be 26/11/24
We are expanding our care home team and looking for a dynamic pharmacy technician with an interest in expanding their role into elderly care and learning disabilities. The team supports both elderly and LD care homes in the Darlington area with medicines management and patient care. Technicians will be expected to attend MDTs alongside our GP and Care Coordinators to provide advice and guidance on medications, within their own competency and with support from a senior technician and pharmacist.
You must be registered, or in the process of being registered, with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and hold an NVQ3 or BTEC level 3 Pharmacy Technician qualification and be willing to undertake the CPPE Primary Care Training Pathway if not already achieved.
Funding is in place to 31st March 2026 but it is hoped that continuing funding will be made available for this role.
Aims/Goals of the Care Home team
Reduced GP workload
Reduced medication costs by formulary prescribing cost-effective alternatives
Improved medication outcomes for patients in Care homes
Improved patient safety and medication optimisation
Improved efficiency of medication changes
Improved formulary prescribing to enable better value/outcomes from medicines
Improved management of shared care drugs
Improved prescribing for care home residents
Attendance at regular MDTs where Care Home residents' health needs are discussed.
About us
Job Summary:
The Pharmacy Technician will support the Enhanced Health in Care Homes Framework from NHS England as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. You will support delivery of effective medicines management and medicines optimisation, safe transfer of care, medicines reconciliation and patient counselling. You will provide advice and guidance to care staff to support them in administering medications. Working within their own competency, the Pharmacy Technician will support discussions about medication within the MDT and ensure changes to usual medications are updated on the GP records and the care home informed and supported to safely make these changes, including putting in place any drug monitoring required.
The Pharmacy Technician will need to be a team player with good communication and organisational skills, including good time management. You will need to demonstrate your own initiative, be motivated and enthusiastic and be able to work under pressure.
Initial key responsibilities:
Effective medication changes from MDT, advice from ANP, Pharmacist or GP and ensuring understanding of care staff.
Blood pressure reviews within own competency.
Attendance at MDT with medication support.
Visits to Care homes to ensure medication compliance.
Discharge review follow up.
Care home medication requests for missing monthly items.
Care home requests for interim items or when required medication.
Care home advice
CPN medication changes- usually letter attached to email, processed in same way as if coming into hub workflow.
Additional responsibilities commensurate with the role
Aims/Goals of the Role
Reduced GP workload
Reduced medication costs by formulary prescribing cost-effective alternatives.
Improved medication outcomes for patients
Improved patient safety and medication optimisation
Improved efficiency of medication changes
Improved formulary prescribing to enable better value/outcomes from medicines.
Improved management of shared care drugs
Key working relationships:
The Enhanced Health in Care Home team
Care Homes
GPs and GP staff
Darlington PCN
Pharmacist and technicians within the practice teams
Community Pharmacies
Secondary care Pharmacy teams
Secondary care discharge teams
The interview date for this role will be 26/11/24
We are expanding our care home team and looking for a dynamic pharmacy technician with an interest in expanding their role into elderly care and learning disabilities. The team supports both elderly and LD care homes in the Darlington area with medicines management and patient care. Technicians will be expected to attend MDTs alongside our GP and Care Coordinators to provide advice and guidance on medications, within their own competency and with support from a senior technician and pharmacist.
You must be registered, or in the process of being registered, with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and hold an NVQ3 or BTEC level 3 Pharmacy Technician qualification and be willing to undertake the CPPE Primary Care Training Pathway if not already achieved.
Funding is in place to 31st March 2026 but it is hoped that continuing funding will be made available for this role.
Aims/Goals of the Care Home team
Reduced GP workload
Reduced medication costs by formulary prescribing cost-effective alternatives
Improved medication outcomes for patients in Care homes
Improved patient safety and medication optimisation
Improved efficiency of medication changes
Improved formulary prescribing to enable better value/outcomes from medicines
Improved management of shared care drugs
Improved prescribing for care home residents
Attendance at regular MDTs where Care Home residents' health needs are discussed.
About us
Job Summary:
The Pharmacy Technician will support the Enhanced Health in Care Homes Framework from NHS England as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. You will support delivery of effective medicines management and medicines optimisation, safe transfer of care, medicines reconciliation and patient counselling. You will provide advice and guidance to care staff to support them in administering medications. Working within their own competency, the Pharmacy Technician will support discussions about medication within the MDT and ensure changes to usual medications are updated on the GP records and the care home informed and supported to safely make these changes, including putting in place any drug monitoring required.
The Pharmacy Technician will need to be a team player with good communication and organisational skills, including good time management. You will need to demonstrate your own initiative, be motivated and enthusiastic and be able to work under pressure.
Initial key responsibilities:
Effective medication changes from MDT, advice from ANP, Pharmacist or GP and ensuring understanding of care staff.
Blood pressure reviews within own competency.
Attendance at MDT with medication support.
Visits to Care homes to ensure medication compliance.
Discharge review follow up.
Care home medication requests for missing monthly items.
Care home requests for interim items or when required medication.
Care home advice
CPN medication changes- usually letter attached to email, processed in same way as if coming into hub workflow.
Additional responsibilities commensurate with the role
Aims/Goals of the Role
Reduced GP workload
Reduced medication costs by formulary prescribing cost-effective alternatives.
Improved medication outcomes for patients
Improved patient safety and medication optimisation
Improved efficiency of medication changes
Improved formulary prescribing to enable better value/outcomes from medicines.
Improved management of shared care drugs
Key working relationships:
The Enhanced Health in Care Home team
Care Homes
GPs and GP staff
Darlington PCN
Pharmacist and technicians within the practice teams
Community Pharmacies
Secondary care Pharmacy teams
Secondary care discharge teams
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