PCN Pharmacy Technician

4 weeks ago

Peterborough, United Kingdom Lakeside Healthcare Group Full time

Job summary

Lakeside Healthcare is continuing to expand its team of Pharmacy Technicians across the organisation and its Primary Care Network member practices. We aim to build the largest Pharmacy Technician workforce in General Practice. We value the contribution that Pharmacy Technicians make within our multi-disciplinary teams, and we aim to continue to safely push the boundaries in-order to develop the Pharmacy Technician role.

This is a part-time role, working 25 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

Your role will be to predominately support our Pharmacists with Medicines Reconciliation and Medication Reviews.

This is an innovative role to work within the Lakeside Healthcare Pharmacy team to ensure safe and effective use of medicines for patients within Lakeside Healthcare.

As a starting point the role will initially focus on medicines reconciliation from clinic and discharge letters and will develop further as the role of the Pharmacy team expands within the organisation.

It is vital that effective systems and procedures are in place to ensure that this process is effective, safe and efficient. The right candidate will be involved in day to day management of this with regular and thorough reviews of all medications. The process also ensures that patients receive the appropriate monitoring necessary for the medication they are prescribed.

If you are working across a Primary Care Network, you will be required to complete the 15 month CPPE Training pathway for Pharmacy Technicians. Please see the CPPE website for further information.

Within the Supporting Information of your application please state the number of hours and days you wish to work.

About us

LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest true partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire.

Our values

Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do.

Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service.

About the Team

South Peterborough PCN is a large, forward-thinking Primary Care Network compromising four practices across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. We recognise the value that this role can bring to our practices and our patients and we look forward to growing our PCN team. Our aim is to provide exemplary patient care; finding innovative solutions in general practice to deliver the best care we can to our patients.

South Peterborough PCN consists of 4 practices Lakeside Yaxley, Lakeside New Queen Street, Wansford Practice and Old Fletton Surgery.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

The role of pharmacy within General Practice is part of an exciting programme of transformation which is underpinned by the NHS Long Term Plan.

This is an innovative role to work within the Lakeside Healthcare Pharmacy team to ensure safe and effective use of medicines for patients within Lakeside Healthcare.

As a starting point the role will initially focus on medicines reconciliation from clinic and discharge letters, and will develop further as the role of the Pharmacy team expands within the organisation. It is vital that effective systems and procedures are in place to ensure that this process is effective, safe and efficient. The right candidate will be involved in day to day management of this with regular and thorough reviews of all medications. The process also ensures that patients receive the appropriate monitoring necessary for the medication they are prescribed.

DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Job Responsibilities/Principal Duties to include:

Medicines reconciliation from clinic and discharge letters. Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols. Level 1 medication reviews to include:

Identifying patients on repeat medication who have not had a medication medical notes to assess if any monitoring is required and arrange as medication as appropriate following defined any old or unnecessary medication from quantities to provide appropriate supply each dosage instructions to ensure concise and clear instructions.

Ensure prescribing is in-line with the Lakeside Drug Formulary whilst taking consideration of CCG prescribing guidance. Support Clinical Pharmacists with general prescription requests and medication queries to allow them to review the more clinically complex requests. Liaise with the pharmacist if there are any concerns regarding patient medication regimens. Promote and support the implementation of electronic repeat dispensing. Conduct searches for audits and high-risk drug monitoring using clinical systems. Participate in practice meetings, and other meetings to improve engagement of the role of pharmacy technician within the Lakeside Pharmacy model and to promote issues relevant to prescribing. Undertake training and development, to ensure the required knowledge and skills for practice-based work. Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing. Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation incentive schemes and audits relating to MHRA alerts, drug monitoring and other patient safety initiatives. 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.

Training and personal development:

You will participate in any training and development programmes implemented by Lakeside Healthcare. This could include:

Participation in individual performance reviews, including maintaining a record of your own personal and professional development. Working with the Senior Pharmacist and the Management team to assess own learning needs and undertaken any training as appropriate. Make effective use of learning opportunities inside and outside the workplace, and provide relevant feedback where appropriate. Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments. Undertake mandatory and statutory training as required. Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Experience of working as a Pharmacy Technician in community pharmacy.

Desirable

Experience of working as a Pharmacy Technician in either a CCG or hospital pharmacy.

Qualifications

Essential

BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences. Professional Registration with the GPhC.

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