The role supports safe and effective medicines useacross primary care by delivering patientfacing consultations, assisting withmedication reviews, medicines reconciliation, and ensuring properadministration techniques.
Main duties of the job
Working within the PCN multidisciplinary team, it contributes to medicines optimisation for care home residents, supports transfers of care, and provides public health advice to address local health inequalities. The position plays a key part in shared care protocols, antimicrobial stewardship, clinical audits, and the implementation of national prescribing guidance, including contributions to QOF and incentive schemes. It also helps streamline prescription workflows, reduce medicines waste, promote EPS and safe repeat prescribing, and ensure robust systems for highrisk medicines. The role includes training practice teams and building strong relationships with pharmacy colleagues across primary, community, secondary, and mental health care to enhance integrated medicines management.
About us
Whaddon Healthcare is aninnovative, well established CQC rated Outstanding GP Practice which alsoprovides a range of specialist Community Services including Cardiology,Respiratory, Gynecology and BLMK Long Covid Service.
We work over two purpose-builtsites in Bletchley with a list size of 21,500 and growing.
You will be working with alarge and friendly team.
Job responsibilities
Undertake patient facing and patientsupporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shareddecision-making conversations with patients
Carry out medicines optimisation tasksincluding 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 theyuse their medicines effectively
Support, as determined by the PCN, medicationreviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients andsynchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linkingwith local community pharmacists
Provide specialist expertise, wherecompetent, to address both the public health and social care needs of patients,including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling localhealth inequalities
Take a central role in the clinical aspectsof shared care protocols and liaising with specialist pharmacists for morecomplex patients
Support initiatives for antimicrobialstewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing
Assist in the delivery of medicinesoptimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits
Support the implementation of nationalprescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and otherprimary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking clinicalaudits (e.g. use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures andcontributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services
Work with the PCN multi-disciplinaryteam to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including implementingefficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage.
Supervise practice reception teams insorting and streaming general prescription requests, to allow GPs and clinicalpharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.
Provide leadership for medicinesoptimisation systems across PCNs, supporting practices with a range of servicesto get the best value from medicines by encouraging and implementing ElectronicPrescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and timely monitoring andmanagement of high-risk medicines.
Provide training and support on thelegal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation ofthe Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)
Develop relationships with otherpharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the multi-disciplinary team tosupport integration of the pharmacy team across health and social careincluding primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* GPhC registered pharmacy technician
* BTEC/NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in pharmaceutical sciences
* Ongoing CPD
* enrolled in, undertaking or qualified from, an approved training pathway. For example, the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH) or courses approved by the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK (APTUK) as meeting the requirements of the UK-wide APTUK/PCPA National Competency Framework for Primary Care Pharmacy Technicians
Experience
* Experience processing prescription requests
* Understanding of General Practice and evidence based medicine
* Awareness of NHS priorities and patient management systems
* Good clinical pharmacy knowledge, terminology, law and ethic
* Experience as a pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital settings
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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