Pharmacy Technician

3 weeks ago

Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom South Lincoln Healthcare Full time

Job Summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician to join South Lincoln Healthcare as part of our Clinical Pharmacy Team. The successful candidate will have completed their CPPE pathway diploma and will be responsible for supporting Clinical Pharmacists in delivering safe, effective, and efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, and waste reduction.

Main Duties

  • Support Clinical Pharmacists in ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, and waste reduction.
  • Reconcile medicines post-discharge from hospital, intermediate care, and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes.
  • Review the use of medicines commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions through audit and patient review.
  • Work with clinicians and CPs to develop and implement robust systems for shared care prescribing, high-risk drug monitoring, and drug monitoring for optimisation of LTCs.
  • Have their own clinic after suitable training and competencies assessment.

About Us

South Lincoln Healthcare is a forward-thinking Federation of 7 GP practices, covering a population of just under 50k patients in the South Lincoln Healthcare Primary Care Network area. Our ambition is to strengthen and stabilise general practice, providing high-quality healthcare to our patients in the community while taking up opportunities to improve and extend our services.

Job 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.
  • Provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries.
  • Support with medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing.
  • Support, as determined by the PCN, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and 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 specialist 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 settings.

Administrative Responsibilities

  • Work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage.
  • Supervise practice reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.
  • Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems across PCNs, supporting practices with a range of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and implementing Electronic Prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines.
  • Provide training and support on the legal, safe, and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
  • Develop relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists, and members of the multi-disciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across health and social care, including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health.

The Post Holder Will

  • Be responsible for the day-to-day planning of personal workloads.
  • Follow departmental policies, procedures, and guidelines.
  • Develop themselves and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training, and service redesign activities.
  • Contribute to a patient safety culture through reporting and investigation of incidents and undertaking proactive measures to improve patient safety.
  • Actively signpost patients to the correct healthcare professional.
  • Maintain accurate clinical records of all patient consultations and related work.
  • Review the latest guidance ensuring the practice conforms to NICE, CQC, etc.
  • Support in the delivery of enhanced services and other service requirements on behalf of the PCN.
  • Participate in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so and participate in the identification of any necessary learning brought about through clinical incidents and near-miss events.
  • Undertake all mandatory training and induction programmes.
  • Contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance.
  • Attend a formal appraisal with their manager at least every 12 months.
  • Contribute to public health campaigns through advice or direct care.
  • Support delivery of QOF, IIF, incentive schemes, QIPP, and other quality or cost-effectiveness initiatives.

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