Pharmacy Technician

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Pharmacy Technician to join our established pharmacy team at North Eastern Derbyshire Healthcare Limited. As a Pharmacy Technician, you will play a vital role in supporting our Clinical Pharmacists and Practice Nurses in delivering high-quality patient care and improving health outcomes.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Undertaking patient-facing and patient-supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
• Carrying out medicines optimisation tasks, including effective medicine administration, supporting medication reviews, and medicines reconciliation.
• Utilising consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
• Supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new patients.
• Synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies.
• Supporting the Clinical Pharmacist in Structured Medication Reviews (SMR) and organising necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR.
• Providing expertise to address both public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.
• Managing shared care protocols and liaising with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients.

The successful candidate will also be responsible for:

• Leading on clinical searches and monitoring of data.
• Participating in developing the PCN Pharmacy team in respect to developing policies and procedures.
• Contributing to the design and delivery of patient questionnaires or pre-review resources to refine the system for medication reviews.
• Collating and filtering information from the patient to be documented on the clinical system or escalated to a Clinical pharmacist or other relevant clinician in the practice, if appropriate.
• Supporting the practice Prescription's teams in streamlining general prescription requests, to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.
• Supporting the implementation of local and national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes, and other primary care settings.
• Supporting the Primary Care Network to deliver on contractual agenda, support Practices with QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services.

The successful candidate will:

• Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity.
• Ensure the principles of openness, transparency, and candour are observed and upheld in all working practices.
• Support the equality, diversity, and rights of patients, carers, and colleagues.

The successful candidate will participate in any training programme implemented by the PCN as part of this employment, with such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning, and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

The successful candidate will strive to maintain quality within the PCN and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team's performance.
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients' needs.
• Effectively manage own time, workload, and resources.