PCN Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice is part of an exciting programme of transformation to develop a new model of care across the Primary Care Network. This model is supported by national policy including the Five Year Forward View and GP Forward View to better utilise the role of pharmacy professionals within the wider healthcare team. Overarching goals are to help keep patients safe and well, out of hospital and reduce the demands on general practice regards medicine use.

Pharmacy Technicians play an important role, complimenting clinical pharmacists, community pharmacists and other members of the PCN multi-disciplinary team. While Pharmacy Technicians do not prescribe nor make clinical decisions, they do work under supervision to ensure the effective and efficient use of medicines. In the PCN, their core responsibilities cover clinical, technical, and administrative roles.

Main duties of the job

The purpose of the role is to maximise safe, cost-effective, prescribing to improve the quality of patient care.

The post-holder will help patients get the best from their medicines, use existing protocols to maximise cost-effective preparations, improve repeat prescribing processes (including use of electronic repeat dispensing and online ordering), minimising clinical risk and reducing avoidable wasted medicines. As well, the post-holder will develop and encourage a positive culture of medicines optimisation principles to assist the PCN in achieving local and national medicines-related objectives.

The pharmacy technician will complete audits around patient safety in the prescribing of medication and present the information for sharing with the clinical team.

About us

CygnetPCN covers a large geographical area within the East Riding of Yorkshire. Ournetwork covers over 51,000 patients and is made up of the five following GPPractices:

Bartholomew Medical Group

Snaith & Rawcliffe Medical Group

Montague Medical Practice

Howden Medical Centre

Gilberdyke Health Centre

PCN's build on existing primary care services and enable greaterprovision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated healthand social care for people close to home. Our PCN are proactively providingcare and services for the people and communities we serve.

Newroles are being introduced to the network as we are expanding into differentareas of healthcare.

Thenetwork provides a single point of access for the nursing, residential andlearning disability homes in the area.

Our team are passionate and committed to making a difference to patient care.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical

Undertakepatient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use,through shared decision- making conversations with patients.

Carryout medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (, Checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicinesreconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work inpartnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.

Asdetermined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliationfor new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfersbetween care settings, linking with local community pharmacies.

Supportthe Clinical Pharmacist in Structured Medication Review (SMR) , organisenecessary monitoring tests prior to SMR.

Provideexpertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients,including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling localhealth inequalities.

Manageshared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more complexpatients.

Support initiativesfor antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribinglocally.

Technical and Administrative

Supportthe PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisationprocesses are being followed.

Implementefficient ordering and return processes and reducing medication wastage.

Providetraining and support on legal, safe, and secure handling of medicines, includingthe implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).

Promotionof Electronic Repeat Dispensing (erd) and online ordering.

Developrelationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of themulti-disciplinary team to support integration across health and social careincluding primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health.

Supportpractice teams in streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPsand clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.

Supportthe implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GPpractices, care homes and other primary care settings.

Supportthe PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services.

Support the PCN inreviewing and developing practice policies for CQC requirements.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Professional registration with GPHC BTEC/NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences Working on the Primary care pharmacy education pathway (desirable) Evidence of continued professional development (CPD) Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities, and challenges

Experience

Essential

Computer literate with an ability to use the required GP clinical systems EMIS/Systmone (desirable) and Microsoft office packages (essential) Understand the aims of current healthcare policy within the PCN Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data Has attention to detail, able to work accurately, identifying errors quickly and easily. Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data. Able to effectively manage allocated resources. Has a planned and organised and approach with an ability to prioritise their own workload to meet strict deadlines. Able to thing analytically; anticipating obstacles and thinking ahead; using analytical techniques to draw logical solutions to problems Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to adjust communication style and content to suit the audience Excellent verbal and written communication skills with team members, patients, carers, and other healthcare professionals. Whilst recognising peoples needs for alternative methods of communication Influencing and negotiating skills An excellent understanding of data protection and confidentiality issues

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