Key Responsibilities a.Clinical Responsibilities: Patient-Facing: Conduct patient-facing and patient-supporting roles to promote effective medicine use through shared decision-making conversations. Medicines Optimisation: Perform medicines optimisation tasks, such as checking inhaler techniques, supporting medication reviews, and conducting medicines reconciliation. Use consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to support effective medicine use. Perform medication safety audits and review use of high-risk medication.
Medication Reviews & Reconciliation: Assist in medication reviews, particularly for new care home patients, and in medicines reconciliation for patients transferring between care settings. Specialist Expertise: Provide lifestyle advice and public health support within competency to address the social and health needs of patients, reducing local health inequalities. Clinical Protocols & Antimicrobial Stewardship: Participate in shared care protocols and liaise with specialist pharmacists for complex patients. Support antimicrobial stewardship initiatives to minimize inappropriate antibiotic use.
Medicines Optimisation & Management Initiatives: Contribute to medicines management incentive schemes, patient safety audits, and the implementation of national prescribing policies within the PCN. Participate in clinical audits, such as those focusing on antibiotic use, and contribute to Quality Improvement measures, including the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services. b.Technical and Administrative Responsibilities: Medicines Optimisation Processes: Work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to implement efficient ordering and return processes, reducing medicine wastage. Prescription Management Supervision: Oversee practice reception teams to triage general prescription requests, allowing clinical pharmacists and GPs to focus on complex requests.
Leadership in Medicines Optimisation Systems: Lead on the integration of Electronic Prescriptions and repeat prescribing systems, ensuring timely monitoring of high-risk medicines. Training & Legal Compliance: Provide training and support for safe handling of medicines, including implementing the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS). Multi-disciplinary Collaboration: Build relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists, and healthcare professionals across primary care, community pharmacy, and social care settings to support integrated patient care. Health and Safety/Risk Management The post-holder must comply at all times with the Practices Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting System.
The post-holder will comply with the Data Protection Act and the Access to Health Records Act Equality and Diversity The post-holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment. Co-workers, patients and visitors must be treated equally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc. Respect for Patient Confidentiality The post-holder should always respect patient confidentiality and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role.
Special Working Conditions The post-holder is required to travel independently between PCN sites, and to attend meetings etc. hosted by other agencies. Job Description Agreement This job description is intended to provide an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities only. There may be other duties required of the post-holder commensurate with the position.
This description will be open to regular review and may be amended to consider development within the PCN and member practices. All members of staff should be prepared to take on additional duties or relinquish existing duties to maintain the efficient running of the PCN.