Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician

Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - Primary Care (Wansbeck Primary Care Network)

We have a great opportunity for pharmacy technicians wishing to develop their careers as part of our progressive team, with a national reputation for innovation and development. Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has a diverse and supportive clinical pharmacy team with a proven track record of providing high quality, patient-centred care. Our pharmacy technicians undertake patient-facing clinical roles, using their skills as part of a multidisciplinary team to support patients wherever they are across primary and secondary care (hospital, home, or care home).

Our team offer you a unique clinical, patient-facing role that allows pharmacy technicians to develop or maintain their skills within primary care. Full access to acute trust teams and resources will help to enable system wide approach to patient care, and designed around you to make the most of your skill set.

We are looking for enthusiastic pharmacy technicians to support medicines optimisation across Wansbeck Primary Care Network to help meet their population needs. This clinical patient-facing role will involve delivering the national agenda for primary care through medicines optimisation stewardship, enhancing medicines support for care homes and their residents, supporting patients at transitions of care and providing medicines management support and leadership across the network.

You may already be a pharmacy technician working in general practice or an experienced pharmacy technician ready to take the next step in your career. You will be enrolled in (or have qualified from) the CPPE primary care pharmacy education training pathway that will equip you for this role.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.

In addition to acute hospital pharmacy services we provide pharmacists and technicians to four of our local primary care networks. We also deliver locally commissioned integrated pharmacy services to care homes, frailty, living well with pain, palliative care and other national priorities.

We are one of the best performing NHS organisations in England, with a focus on staff experience as well as the experience of patients.
- Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
- Carry out medicines optimisation tasks and utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
- Support medicines reconciliation for patients at transitions of care, communicating effectively with community pharmacy and secondary care colleagues.
- Contribute to effective systems for medication review for patients on repeat medication. This includes support for clinical pharmacists in delivering structured medication reviews (SMR) to help reduce medicines-related harm.
- 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 to local arrangements, participate in medication audits and carry out safety searches to ensure appropriate monitoring for patients receiving high-risk medication.
- Support the PCN in implementing efficient ordering and return processes and reducing medication wastage, including Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD).
- 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 the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.
- Where required, support the PCN to deliver the Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES).