Pharmacy Technician Primary Care
1 month ago
**Pharmacy Technician**
**Health First ALW CIC**
**Closing date is 07/6/2024**
**Job summary**
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Pharmacy Technician to join our PCN. You will be part of an innovative multidisciplinary team working across TABA (Tyldesley, Atherton, Boothstown, Astley) PCN to support the clinical pharmacist and practice colleagues to deliver the Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice model of care, including supporting and assisting a cluster of GP practices within the PCN.
We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable. We are to committed to meeting and upholding the principles of the GDPR.
**Main duties of the job**
Your time will be split between patient contact activities and clinical administration which supports the network with medicines optimisation and quality improvement and contributing to QOF and Directed Enhanced Services in the network.
You will also focus on the operational efficiencies that can be created within the network to ensure there is better use of skill mix to improve access to healthcare and help manage workload.
Please see Job description and Person Specification for more information.
**About us**
TABA PCN provides healthcare in Atherton, Astley, Boothstown and Tyldesley, and is one of seven delivery footprints in Wigan and serves a patient population of approx. 55,000. Wigan is one of the largest CCGs with a population of 320,000 and is very diverse. We work closely with the Healthier Wigan Partnership, an Integrated Care Organisation that brings together the CCG, Council, hospital, community and mental health services and GP practices. Together, we all work to improve services by better connecting them with each other and our local communities.
About Health First
Health First ALW CIC is Social Enterprise Community Interest Company limited by guarantee. Operating as a Social Enterprise, we have no shareholders and we invest all monies back into patient services. We provide high quality local services within communities. We pride ourselves on innovation and flexibility of locations and methods to deliver high-quality, accessible healthcare.
**Job description**
**Job responsibilities**
Job responsibilities
DUTIES:
Work with the Clinical Pharmacist and Clinicians in accordance with agreed practice prescribing standard operating procedures.
Process repeat medication requests, including the conversion of acute requests to repeat medicines, changing quantities of medicines. Processing prescriptions in line with agreed clinical protocols and within your competency.
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.
Support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and following hospital discharge, including synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking with local community pharmacists
Provide specialist expertise, where competent, to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.
Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with the PCN pharmacists for more complex patients.
Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.
Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits.
Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP Practices, care homes and other primary care setting. This will be achieved through undertaking clinical audits (e.g. use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcome Framework and enhanced services.
Undertake simple audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs or PCN pharmacist, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.
Be involved in medication related projects within the practice, e.g. promoting use of over the counter medication, or other CCG initiatives.
Assist with any medication related QOF work as appropriate.
Help to plan, develop and support the introduction of new working processes within the practice to optimise the quality of prescribing
Support the Clinicians and Clinic
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