Pharmacy Technician

About the Role

Primary Integrated Community Services (PICS) is seeking a highly skilled Pharmacy Technician to join our team of Clinical Pharmacists in a Clinical Support Role. As a Pharmacy Technician - Medicines Optimisation Specialist, you will play a vital part in ensuring the safe and effective use of medicines within our Primary Care Network (PCN).

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake patient-facing and patient-supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations.
• Carry out medicines optimisation tasks, including effective medicine administration, supporting medication reviews, and medicine reconciliation.
• Support the Clinical Pharmacists in Structured Medication Review, including 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 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.
• Promote Electronic Repeat Dispensing to patients.
• Promote online ordering through the NHS App.
• Support practice reception teams in streamlining prescription requests, allowing GPs and Clinical Pharmacists to review more clinically complex requests.
• Attend weekly Care Home Ward Rounds with GPs, face-to-face and virtually.
• Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP Practices.
• Support the PCN in delivering on QIPP agenda, QOF, IIF, and other contracts.
• Support the PCN in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC requirements.
• Carry out housekeeping while in patient records, dose optimisation, syncing medicines, etc.
• Conduct prescribing audits (as requested by Senior Clinical Pharmacist).

Additional Responsibilities

• Promote our culture of equality and diversity.
• Ensure our principles of openness, transparency, and candor are upheld.
• Continue annual training and CPD to maintain good practices, especially within Safeguarding and IPC.

Professional Development / Personal Performance

• Identify learning needs, plan, implement, and evaluate programmes of education to meet identified needs.
• Establish own support mechanisms to enable structured reflection, including clinical supervision, development of supportive networks, mentoring, and coaching.
• Participate in and undertake clinical supervision of colleagues on an individual or group basis.
• Participate in the Divisional appraisal System and demonstrate the achievement of agreed personal objectives.

Person Specification

Personal Qualities

• Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.

Experience

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Knowledge and Skills

• Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.

Qualifications

• Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
• Please provide your registration number of your GPhC professional registration.