Coventry and Rugby GP Alliance are working with Primary Care Networks across Coventry and Warwickshire to deliver roles as part of the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme including Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy technicians, and Physicians Associates.
We are currently looking for a driven and dedicated Pharmacy technician to join our Coventry (Go West PCN) team.
As a Pharmacy Technicians within this role, you will provide support for clinical, technical, and administrative responsibilities. The primary purpose of the role is to lead improvements that ensure prescribing practices are safe, cost-effective, and aligned with best practice, ultimately enhancing the quality of patient care.
In this position, you will support patients to get the most from their medicines through medication reviews and protocol-led switches, while improving repeat prescribing and promoting initiatives to reduce risk and medicines waste. You will also work with practice teams to promote medicines optimisation best practice and help deliver key PCN priorities, including NICE guidance implementation.
If youre excited by the prospect of tackling new challenges, collaborating with a dynamic team, and helping shape the future of our organisation, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Practice
- Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
- Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including 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 they use their medicines effectively.
- As determined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies
Technical and Administrative
- Support the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.
- Implement efficient ordering and return processes and reducing medication wastage.
- Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
- Promotion of Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering.
- Support practice reception teams in streaming general prescription requests, to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.
- Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.
About us
At Coventry and Rugby GP Alliance, we pride ourselves on fostering a culture of innovation, growth, and continuous learning. As a member of our team, you'll have the opportunity to work alongside talented professionals who are committed to delivering excellence and driving positive change within our industry.
We take pride in offering a robust range of benefits to support our employees, including
- Annual Leave - Enjoy 27 days of annual leave for full-time employees, in addition to bank holidays.
- Sick Pay - Our enhanced sick pay policy ensures you are supported during times of illness.
- Pension Scheme - Access to the NHS pension scheme to secure your financial future.
- Enhanced Maternity Leave - We provide generous maternity leave to support new parents.
- Paternity Leave: We also offer paternity leave to allow new fathers to bond with their newborns.
- Blue Light Discounts - Take advantage of exclusive discounts available for our staff. After probation you can make an expense claim for the price of your blue light discount card and receive full reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Network - Access support through our employee advice network for personal and professional challenges 365 days a year
We are committed to creating a supportive and rewarding work environment for all our employees.
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Clinical Practice
- Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
- Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including 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 they use their medicines effectively.
- As determined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies
- Support the Clinical Pharmacist in Structured Medication Reviews i.e. organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR
- Provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.
- Manage shared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients.
- Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.
Technical and Administrative
- Support the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.
- Implement efficient ordering and return processes and reducing medication wastage.
- Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service.
- Promotion of Electronic Repeat Dispensing and online ordering.
- Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the multi-disciplinary team to support integration across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and mental health.
- Support practice reception teams in streaming general prescription requests, to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.
- Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.
- Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services
- Supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services;
- Support the PCN in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC requirements
This is not an exhaustive list and ad hoc tasks will be assigned as appropriate. The duties of the post may be reviewed and, if appropriate, changed by discussion with the post holder to ensure the provision of effective and efficient services.
Person Specification
Experience
- Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy
- Working with Microsoft Office
- Working with EMIS
- Working with DOCMAN
- Working with MedOptimise
- Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges
Qualifications
- Professional registration with GPhC
- Meets the specific qualification and training requirements as specified by the GPhC criteria to register as a Pharmacy Technician
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
- Willingness to complete the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway PCPEP, if not already completed
- Qualified from, an approved training pathway. For example, the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway PCPEP or Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes MOCH
- Formal teaching or mentoring qualification
- Recognised qualification in Quality Improvement methodology
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.
Depending on experienceUp to £36 479 (pro rata)
