Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

Its an exciting time to join our growing PCN Pharmacy team. This greatopportunity will allow you to work as part of a 15 person clinical pharmacy team to deliver care to our 70,000 patients across six practices. ClinicalPharmacy in General Practice model is supported by the direction of national policy including theFive Year Forward View and GP Forward View where there is a need to better utilise the role ofpharmacy within primary care to pro-actively help patients stay well and out of hospital as well ashelping to reduce the demands on general practice. Pharmacy technicians play an important role,complementing clinical pharmacists, community pharmacists and other members of the PCN multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

The purpose of the role is to support improvements to maximise safe, cost effective best practice inprescribing to improve the quality of patient care. The post holder will help patients to get the bestfrom their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeatprescribing processes in General Practice, including promotion of repeat dispensing and onlineordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.

About us

Healthier West Wirral PCN supports a population of over 70,000 patients across 6 different Practicesincluding Marine Lake Medical Practice, Heswall and Pensby Group Practice, Commonfield RoadSurgery, Upton Group Practice, West Wirral Group Practice and Greasby Group Practice.We are an ambitious and forward thinking organisation that has already had much success building alarge PCN team including Physician Associates, Care Coordinators and Paramedics.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and 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 ( checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.  As determined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies.  Support the Clinical Pharmacist in Structure Medication Reviews (SMR) organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR. Provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.   Manage shared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients.  Support the PCN to deliver on QOF, IIF and other locally commissioned enhanced services. Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Who we're looking for -Professional registration with GPhC -BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences -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

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