Pharmacy Technician

3 weeks ago

Goole, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom Cygnet PCN Full time

About Cygnet PCN

Cygnet PCN is a leading healthcare provider in the East Riding of Yorkshire, serving over 51,000 patients across five GP practices. Our network is dedicated to delivering proactive, personalised, coordinated, and integrated health and social care services to the communities we serve.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Pharmacy Technician to join our team in a Clinical Support Role. As a key member of our multidisciplinary team, you will play a vital part in ensuring the effective and efficient use of medicines across our network.

Key Responsibilities

  • 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, supporting medication reviews, and medicines reconciliation.
  • Support the Clinical Pharmacist in Structured Medication Review (SMR), organising necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR.
  • Provide expertise to address both 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 Responsibilities

  • 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 legal, safe, and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
  • Promote Electronic Repeat Dispensing (erd) and online ordering.
  • Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the multidisciplinary team to support integration across health and social care, including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health.
  • Support practice teams in streaming general prescription requests, so as 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.

Person Specification

  • Professional registration with GPHC.
  • BTEC/NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences.
  • Working on the Primary care pharmacy education pathway (desirable).
  • Evidence of continued professional development (CPD).
  • Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community, or hospital pharmacy.
  • Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities, and challenges.

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