Specialist Pharmacy Technician

2 weeks ago

Poole, United Kingdom NHS Dorset Full time

Job summary

We know many use AI to enhance their applications. While AI brings efficiency, we value authenticity and urge applicants to reflect their true skills and experiences. NHS Dorset evaluates each application fairly, acknowledging AI's benefits and limitation.

We seek an experiencedpharmacy technician with strong communication skills and varied experience tojoin our team, making the best use of medicines to improve health and wellbeingin Dorset.

We work collaboratively with our system partners to ensuremedicines are aligned with the health needs of our population.

You will support clinicians to incorporate medicines intoclinical pathways in the most safe and cost-effective manner.

Your main responsibilities will include:

Systemwide delivery and maintenance of theDorset Formulary Management of technical monitoring ofincentives in secondary care Management of the Primary Care prescribingdigital support. Giving commissioning advice on pharmaceuticalswithin new or existing pathways, including during service re-design. Assisting and co-ordinating the drug decisionmaking process within pathways across the System as needed, supporting thegovernance functions behind these. Playing an active role in the senior managementteam and direct line management of technicians. Helping to deliver change and transformationprojects to meet the requirements of the NHS Long Term Plan and NHS ContractualFrameworks

Main duties of the job

As a representative of the medicines team, your role wouldinvolve:

Attend ICB, Providers Meetings and AdvisoryGroups, representing the medicines team. An active role in Better Value Group and monitoringeffective implementation of incentive schemes in secondary care. An active role in Formulary Working Group. Provide advice on various aspects of commissioning. Prescribing and Medicines Optimisation: workwith prescribers to ensure that medicines are used in the most effective way acrossall sectors and working to ensure the Dorset formulary remains a credible trusteddocument with appropriate peer review and underpinning all decision making forthe system. Ensure the safe and effective use of medicines.Your advice can significantly impact patient care and outcomes. Ensure ICB and system priorities for medicinesoptimisation are effectively delivered. Data manipulation and interpretation to presentto a variety of audiences. Facilitate and support the transformation ofmedicines optimisation services in the clinical pathways and ensure best valuein medicines optimisation for Dorset. Contribution or preparation and presentation of reports,system groups. Manage changing priorities using strongorganisational skills, attention to detail, the ability to work independentlyand collaboratively, and the flexibility to adapt to changing circumstances. Responding to queriesfrom colleagues across the system and managing the internal database

About us

We are joining up to tackle all the things that affect our health and wellbeing, make real change, and improve things for our communities.

Dorset ICS is made up of:

NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board University Hospitals Dorset Foundation Trust Dorset County Hospital Foundation Trust Dorset HealthCare University Foundation Trust Dorset Council Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole Council 194 town and parish councils 18 primary care networks (made up of 73 GP practices) Southwestern Ambulance Service Foundation Trust Dorset Police Dorset & Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Service 7,300 voluntary organisations

What we do

The Health and Care Bill puts ICSs on a statutory footing empowering them to better join up health and care services, improve population health, and reduce health inequalities.

ICSs have four core purposes:

Improve outcomes in population health and healthcare Tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access Enhance productivity and value for money Help the NHS support broader social and economic development Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see full job description attached.

The postholder will be responsible for:

Leadership to technical workforce in the ICBmedicines team. Senior technical leadership for medicinesoptimisation implementation. Support pharmacy leadership in effectivegovernance of medicines commissioning hosted in the Dorset Formulary. Oversee systems that support a system wideapproach to medicines commissioning, safety and value including high-costdrugs. Provide technical leadership of communication ofmedicines optimisation to system partners. Hold decision making discretion, representingthe team / department / function at identified groups, providing advice onmatters relating to own work area. Build and maintain working relationships and influencesacross the system with: Pharmacistsand technicians in the medicines team;Medicines teams acrossthe system; Practice staff and prescribers in the Dorset system; Primary careteam; Contracting teams in the ICB and NHS England; Business Intelligence andfinance teams; IT and Communications teams; Local Medical committee; CommunityPharmacy Dorset; NHSBSA and other external agencies. Working conditions are predominantly officestyle (either within ICB offices or from home), requiring the use of displayscreen equipment. There may beoccasional exposure to indirect emotional circumstances. There will be occasional travel within thecounty to ICB sites, hospitals, GP practices, and occasional meetings out ofcounty. Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered with the GPHC as a Pharmacy Technician Evidence of continuing professional development Post-registration/graduate diploma level or equivalent in a relevant subject, or equivalent level of knowledge or experience

Skills, abilities and knowledge

Essential

Communications: demonstrated ability at communicating project updates and outcomes across a wide variety of recipients, both verbal and non-verbal Demonstrated ability to negotiate to achieve a positive outcome Education evidence of role in supporting education and development of pharmacy technicians or pharmacy support staff Digital transformation: demonstrated knowledge of opportunities and potential to improve the digital landscape for medicines optimisation within Dorset Demonstrated ability for successful development, coordination and implementation of digital project across an organisation with multiple stakeholders Excellent organisational and planning skills Demonstrated ability to lead on projects to a successful outcome Demonstrable skills for nurturing key relationships and maintaining networks Competent user of Microsoft packages Demonstrable ability to gather information and use attention to detail to extract key messages from complex data reports Demonstrable ability to work independently or as part of a team. Demonstrable ability to recognise limitations of own knowledge and skills and circumstances in which referral to a pharmacist is necessary Demonstrable ability to prioritise effectively Demonstrable ability to use own initiative within sphere of responsibility

Experience

Essential

Recent previous experience within a comparable role in commissioning organisations Over 5 years of experience as a pharmacy technician in primary care, inpatient or community settings Recent previous experience of working within a customer focused environment Familiarity with commissioning and contracting processes in primary care. Previous line management experience of pharmacy technicians and support staff Experience of managing projects in complex organisational environments Experience of leading digital or technical project implementations

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