PharmacyTechnicians can help play an important role, complimenting clinicalpharmacists, community pharmacists and other members of the PCNmulti-disciplinary team. While Pharmacy Technicians do not prescribe nor make clinical decisions, they do work under supervision to ensurethe effective and efficient use of medicines. In the PCN, their coreresponsibilities can cover clinical, technical, and administrative roles.
Thepurpose of the role is to maximise safe and cost-effective prescribing, to improve the quality of patient care. The post-holder will help patients get thebest from their medicines, use existing protocols to maximise cost-effectivepreparations, improve repeat prescribing processes (including use of electronicrepeat dispensing and online ordering), minimising clinical risk and reducingavoidable medicines wastage. The post-holder will also develop and encourage apositive culture of medicines optimisation principles, to assist the PCN inachieving local and national medicines-related objectives.
Main duties of the job
Wherea PCN employs or engages one or more Pharmacy Technicians under the AdditionalRoles Reimbursement Scheme, the PCN must ensure that each Pharmacy Technicianhas the key clinical, technical and administrative responsibilities as outlinedbelow for delivering health services
Thepost holder is a Pharmacy Technician and is an integral part of the generalpractice team, working within their professional boundaries in each practicewithin the Primary Care Network PCN.
Thisrole will work under the supervision of the PCN clinical pharmacist to ensurethe safe, accurate and timely supply of prescribed medication to patients.
Theywill provide technical and administrative support to the PCN clinicalpharmacist and clinicians.
Thepharmacy technician will support the PCN and practice clinical teams withqueries around medication from patients.
The pharmacy technician willcomplete audits around patient safety in the prescribing of medication andpresent the information for sharing with the clinical team.
About us
Suttonhas a population of approximately 200000 residents registered to 21 practicesand there are currently 4 Primary Care Networks each serving a population ofapproximately 50000 patients. Our SuttonPCNs are forward-looking, friendly, and focused on providing a wide range ofexcellent healthcare services to patients in Sutton and the surroundingarea. Our PCNs between them are led by 8PCN Clinical Directors. The PCNs work together as they see the benefits ofworking together in a larger GP partnership and are delighted to be realisingsome of those benefits now. Because of our scale, not only are we moreresilient and efficient but we are able to invest in continuous qualityimprovement, enhanced care, new services, and training and developing ourworkforce. We value the diversity of our colleagues and actively champion aninclusive culture and are committed to helping our colleagues achieve awork/life balance.
CASS PCN is looking to employ a Pharmacy Technician under the additional rolesreimbursement scheme. They will beaccountable to the Primary Care Networks,working in Benhill and BelmontGP Practices within CASS PCN
Job responsibilities
The Pharmacy Technician is toundertake the following clinical responsibilities in delivering healthservices:
* a. Undertake patient facing andpatient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shareddecision-making conversations with
* b. Conduct medicines optimisationtasks including effective medicine reviews and medicines reconciliation.Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership withpatients to ensure they use their
* c. Support, as determined by the PCN,medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care homepatients and synchronise medicines for patient transfers between caresettings and linking with local community
* d. Provide specialist expertise, wherecompetent, to address both the public health and social care needs ofpatients including lifestyle advice, service information and help in tackling localhealth inequalities.
* e. Maintain a central role in theclinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaise with specialistpharmacists for more complex patients.
* f. Support initiatives forantimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.
* g. Assist in the delivery of medicinesoptimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits.
* h. Support the implementation ofnational prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes andother primary 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 the Investment andImpact Fund (IIF) objectives.
* i. Attend a formal appraisal with yourmanager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective hasbeen set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectivescan be agreed
* j. Contribute to public healthcampaigns through advice or direct care.
* k. Maintain a clean, tidy, effectiveworking area at all times.
Person Specification
Personal Qualities
* Professional and positive.
* Leading by example
* Adhering to Sutton PCN Core Values
* Meet DBS reference standards and have a
* clear criminal record (not subject to the
* Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974)
Qualifications
* Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council GPhC.
* Meets the specific qualification and training requirements as specified by the GPhC criteria to register as a Pharmacy Technician.
* 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
* Evidence of commitment to and able to demonstrate CPD including Management qualification and professional development.
* Mandatory requirement to complete
* CPPE within 2 years of starting and its
* an 18 month course if not achieved
* Evidence of commitment to and able to
* demonstrate CPD including Management
Experience
* Minimum 2 years post-qualification experience in a hospital, community, or general practice setting.
* Working primary care including Emis knowledge of IT NHS.
* Is working under appropriate clinical supervision to ensure safe, effective and efficient use of medicines
* Understanding and knowledge of healthcare provision in GP practices, QOF, PCN Network Contract DES and IIF
* An appreciation of the new NHS landscape
* including the relationships between
* individual practices, PCNs and the
* Knowledge of the breadth of common
* acute and long-term conditions that are
* likely to be seen in general practice.
* Experience of collaborative working and
* of building relationships across a variety
* of organisations
* Able to undertake medication or medicine
* use reviews and offer patient counselling.
* Experience of facilitating change to
* improve clinical practice.
* Experience in undertaking clinical audit.
Competency Skills
* Interpersonal skills self assessment
* Pharmacotherapy knowledge
* Patient and pharmaceutical care
* Systems-based care and population health
* Information analysis
* Teamwork
* PCNs core values
Skills & Abilities
* Ability to cope with stress.
* In depth therapeutic and clinical
* knowledge of the principles of evidence
* based healthcare
* An appreciation of the nature of primary
* care prescribing, concepts of rational
* prescribing and strategies for
* improvement
* Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines,
* often with frequent interruptions and
* urgent requests.
* Excellent interpersonal, influencing and
* Demonstrate the ability to communicate
* complex and sensitive information in an
* understandable form to a variety of
* Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise
* and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term
* conditions.
* Ability to obtain and analyse complex
* technical information.
* Recognises priorities when problem
* solving and identifies deviations from the
* normal pattern and is able to refer to
* seniors or GPs when appropriate.
* Produce timely and informative reports.
* Work effectively, independently and as a
* team member
* Build credibility and rapport (personal and
* organisational) quickly and easily.
* Able to engage rapidly and consistently
* with existing stakeholders and networks.
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.
£32,760 to £33,600 a yearDepending on experience such as CPPE achievement
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