Job Overview
The pharmacy technician will support the role of the pharmacist to deliver the Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice model of care, including supporting and assisting a cluster of GP practices. The purpose of the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost effective best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care. The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes in general practices, including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.
In addition, the post holder will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments. This will involve assisting the GP Federation in achieving national requirements, NICE implementation and utilisation of medicines optimisation initiatives.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
* Carry out medicines switches in GP practices in line with practice and CCG agreed specific protocols reviewing patients records; amending records and informing patients
* Carry out housekeeping whilst in patient records e.g. dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation
* Promotion of electronic repeat dispensing and online ordering
* Report on key performance indicators for CPGP to demonstrate added value for patients and general practice in accordance with NICE guidance
* Use and maintain information systems and databases relevant to the position including incident reporting, medicines optimisation, prescribing data, cost savings and patient outcomes
* Work closely with GP practices and the CCG Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice lead
* Support the Medicines Optimisation team in the delivery of the Medicines Optimisation strategy
* To be responsible for the organisation, planning and of own workload to meet set deadlines
* To utilise GP practice clinical systems to conduct prescribing audits e.g. SystmOne.
* To undertake, participate and share the outcomes of clinical audits to facilitate improvement and changes in practice
Overview of your organisation
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly, innovative, expanding and forward thinking teams. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician to join our General Practice teams as we expand and develop our services.
Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice is part of an exciting programme of transformation to develop a new model of care which addresses our ambition to deliver person-centred, co-ordinated care across the district. The Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice model is supported by the direction of national policy including the Five Year Forward View and GP Forward View where there is a need to better utilise the role of pharmacy within primary care to pro-actively help patients stay safe and well and out of hospital as well as helping to reduce the demands on general practice.
The successful candidate will work across and support practices within the Brunel Primary Care Network 3 working within Park Lane Practice, Phoenix Surgery and Ridegreen Medical Centre.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Application question(s):
* Do you have a professional registration with GPhC
* Do you have a BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
Experience:
* Pharmacy: 2 years (preferred)
Work Location: In person