Pharmacy Technician

2 months ago


Chesterfield, Derbyshire, United Kingdom North Eastern Derbyshire Healthcare Limited Full time
Job Summary

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 medicines services.

Main Responsibilities

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, as determined by the PCN.
  • Synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies.
  • Supporting the Clinical Pharmacist in Structured Medication Reviews (SMR), 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.
Technical and Administrative

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.
Personal and Professional Development

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.
Autonomy and Scope within Role

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.
  • This is an evolving role, and the duties and responsibilities may change in accordance with the developing service and needs for the patients.
Person Specification

The ideal candidate will have:

  • Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
  • BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences.
  • Evidence of continued professional development (CPD).

Desirable qualifications and skills include:

  • Accuracy Checking Technician Accreditation or equivalent.
  • CPPE Pathway.
  • Understanding of local and national guidelines.
  • Thorough understanding of GDPR.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities, and challenges.
  • Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
  • Patient-centred with care and compassion.
  • Recognises priorities when problem-solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to senior clinicians when appropriate.
  • Self-aware, motivated, articulate, and decisive.
  • Respectful, positive, and optimistic.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office and Clinical data systems.
  • Able to think analytically; anticipating obstacles and thinking ahead; using analytical techniques to draw logical solutions to problems.
  • Demonstrate ability to work in a busy environment; ability to deal with both urgent and important tasks and to prioritise effectively whilst also supporting others.
  • Knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law and ethics and current legislation.

Desirable experience includes:

  • Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data.
  • Experience of using SystmOne.

Essential skills and qualities include:

  • Highly Organised.
  • Motivated and proactive with a positive approach to challenges.
  • Reliable and trustworthy.
  • Ability to use initiative and judgement.
  • Commit to a Full DBS Check.

Desirable skills and qualities include:

  • UK Driving Licence with full use of a car.

Essential experience includes:

  • Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in General practice, Medicines management, community or hospital pharmacy.
  • Experience of participating in a multi-professional team.
  • Experience of implementation of best practice and service improvement.
  • Experience of clinical leadership.

Desirable experience includes:

  • Protocol writing experience.
  • Experience of working in Primary Care.
  • Experience of clinical audit and quality improvement.

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