This is a new role for a Pharmacy Technician towork for Beechwood Surgery. The role is to support the Clinical Pharmacist toensure the delivery of safe, effective and efficient systems for repeatprescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximisingpatient outcomes. We are looking to expand our team by seeking to employ aPharmacy Technician, subject to continuation of the NHS funding for this role.
The post holder will work as part of amulti-disciplinary team and support all Practice staff to develop and improveprocesses. Innovative ideas are welcomed, and excellent communication skills,enthusiasm and motivation are essential skills for a successful candidate. Akey part of the role will be dealing with daily medication requests andqueries, and communicating with patients and Community Pharmacies.
In addition, the post holder will be responsiblefor encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles ofmedicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and promoting goodpractice in line with therapeutic developments. This will involve assisting thePractices in achieving national requirements, NICE implementation andutilisation of medicines optimisation initiatives.
Main duties of the job
Assisting the Practice admin team/s with medicationqueries.
Liaise with patients to resolve queries and supporttheir use of medication
Contribute towards improvement of prescribingprocesses in general practice
Promotion of electronic repeat dispensing andonline ordering
Carry out housekeeping whilst in patient recordse.g. dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation
Use and maintain information systems and databasesrelevant to the position including incident reporting, medicines optimisation,prescribing data, cost savings and patient outcomes
Handle function specific information, which may besensitive, complex or confidential and appropriately recording, transferringand/or coordinating such information in accordance with the Data ProtectionAct; Caldicott Guidelines.
To utilise GP practice clinical systems to conductprescribing audits
To undertake, participate and share the outcomes ofclinical audits
Support the role of the Clinical Pharmacist on thedelivery of the new Primary Care Networks specification model
Contribute/participate inpractice meetings, patient participation groups, and other meetings to improveengagement of the role of pharmacy technician and to promote issues relevant toprescribing and medicines optimisation.
To be responsible for the organisation and planningof own workload to meet set deadlines.
To undertake learning and development to maintainthe required knowledge and skills for practice based work.
About us
Our practice based in Warley, Brentwood. Beechwood has almost 14,000 patients. We have our own car parkand staff kitchen and common room. We also have a long-established practicebased in the Warley area, which has agrowing patient population. There are 4 GP partners and several SalariedDoctors, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, HCAs and Nursing Associates.Our organisation employs around 45 people and our Practice Manager is VickiJohnson. We look forward to welcoming you to the team!
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
PRIMARY DUTIES AND AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITIES
Manage incoming medication requests, e.g. fromPatients, Pharmacies, Care Homes etc.
Assisting the Practice admin team/s with medicationqueries.
Liaise with patients to resolve queries and supporttheir use of medication
Contribute towards improvement of prescribingprocesses in general practice
Promotion of electronic repeat dispensing andonline ordering
Carry out housekeeping whilst in patient recordse.g. dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation
Use and maintain information systems and databasesrelevant to the position including incident reporting, medicines optimisation,prescribing data, cost savings and patient outcomes
Handle function specific information, which may besensitive, complex or confidential and appropriately recording, transferringand/or coordinating such information in accordance with the Data ProtectionAct; Caldicott Guidelines and the Confidentiality Code of Conduct
To utilise GP practice clinical systems to conductprescribing audits
To undertake, participate and share the outcomes ofclinical audits to facilitate improvement and changes in practice
Support the role of the Clinical Pharmacist on thedelivery of the new Primary Care Networks specification model
Where applicable, contribute/participate inpractice meetings, patient participation groups, and other meetings to improveengagement of the role of pharmacy technician and to promote issues relevant toprescribing and medicines optimisation
To be responsible for the organisation and planningof own workload to meet set deadlines
To undertake learning and development to maintainthe required knowledge and skills for practice based work
To carry out other duties which are appropriate tothe skills and competencies of the post holder and grade of the post as thepriorities of the service change
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Professional registration with GPhC BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences Evidence of continued professional development (CPD) Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges
* Postgraduate qualifications of a relevant nature. e.g. FdSc in Medicines Management/Pharmacy Services; BTEC Therapeutics
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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