About this role
Job summary
Pharmacy technicians core role responsibilities will cover clinical, and technical and administrative categories. The purpose of the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost-effective best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practice, including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines. In addition, the post holder will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments. This will involve assisting the PCN in achieving national requirements, NICE implementation and utilisation of medicines optimisation initiatives. All Pharmacy Technicians must work within their competencies and have professional indemnity for their role.
About us
Bedminster Family Practice has 2 GP Partners, and our Clinical Pharmacist is a non-GP Partner.
Pharmacy technicians play an important role, complementing clinical pharmacists, community pharmacists and other members of the PCN multi-disciplinary team.
Bedminster Family Practice is a purpose-built building with c13,500 patients cared for by a dedicated team. We have an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician to join our team of allied healthcare professional including Practice Nurses, First Contact Physiotherapist, Pharmacists, Physician Associate, and Health Care Assistants.
You will join an existing team including two Clinical Pharmacists and prescription clerks in supporting the registered patients of Bedminster Family Practice Pharmacy.
Why work for us
6 weeks leave plus bank holidays pro rata
Eligibility to NHS Pension Scheme
Flexible working
Free parking
Training and professional development opportunities
Job description
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 (e.g. 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.
Support the Clinical Pharmacist in Structure Medication Reviews (SMR) i.e. 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 initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally. Technical and Administrative
Support the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed. Implement efficient ordering and return processes and reducing medication wastage.
Transcribe medications from discharge summaries and clinical letters.
Answer drug-based queries from patients and health professionals.
Undertake shared-care drug monitoring, for example for DMARDs, NOACs, and high-risk medications such as amiodarone.
Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
Promotion of Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the multidisciplinary team to support integration across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and mental health.
Support practice reception teams in streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests. Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.
Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services.
Supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services
Support the PCN in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC requirements.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional registration with GPhC BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
- Evidence of continued professional development (CPD) Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges.
- Relevant advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of Primary Care Networks, General Practice and evidence based medicine.
- An appreciation of the NHS agenda and Government targets
- Awareness of systems to support management of patients in a primary care setting, delivering pharmaceutical input and support in the context of pathways of care and the business of the organisation(s).
- Awareness of GP budget-management and funding systems to enable GP clinical pharmacist services to assist delivery of PCN and NHS priorities and requirements for financial balance and quality.
- Good clinical pharmacy knowledge including terminology.
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for the improvement of prescribing.
- Knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law and ethics and current legislation.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Bedminster Family Practice
Address
Regent Road
Bedminster
BS3 4AT
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://bedminsterfamilypractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)