Job summary
Are you looking for a
patient facing role with the opportunity to develop your clinical skills and
make a difference to patient care? We are looking for full time and part time pharmacy
technicians to join our expanding primary care network pharmacy teams. The
successful candidate will be enrolled on the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate
Education primary care pathway to develop them in their patient facing role and
supported locally by a clinical pharmacist. The post holder will provide
support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication
queries. They will undertake medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and develop
systems for safer prescribing through local audits. The post holder will work
as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. This is a new
role within our PCNs with the successful candidate being able to shape the role
of the pharmacy technician in primary care.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will play an important role, complementing
clinical pharmacists, communitypharmacists and other members of the PCN multi-disciplinary team. Working
under supervision of a pharmacist they will ensure effective and efficient use
of medicines. 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. 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.
About us
The
Coventry and Rugby GP Alliance is a private company limited by shares, wholly
owned by local Coventry and Rugby GP practices. As a GP led organisation, we
represent 50 GP practice shareholders and cover nearly 420,000 patients.
We describe
our work in terms of Supporting, Innovating, Developing and Educating - we
are on the S.I.D.E. of general practice and we have developed our Operational
Plans to describe what we are going to do over this year to ensure that we
continue to high quality, accessible and responsive services for both
practices and patients.
We have
identified key areas that we will focus on to build upon and improve our
existing services.
These are
our Strategic Priorities:
- Clinical
Service Improvement & Delivery
- Clinical
Innovation
- Primary
Care Development Practice and Network Support
- Training
and Education
- Integrated
Care
- Good
Governance
Job description
Job responsibilities
Undertake patient facing and
patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared
decision-making conversations with patients.
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.
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 PCN multi-disciplinary
team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.
Implement efficient ordering and
return processes and reducing medication wastage. 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 the implementation of national and local
prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other
primary care settings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Undertake patient facing and
patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared
decision-making conversations with patients.
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.
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 PCN multi-disciplinary
team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.
Implement efficient ordering and
return processes and reducing medication wastage. 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 the implementation of national and local
prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other
primary care settings.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community, or hospital pharmacy
- Good verbal and written communication
- Good interpersonal skills, ability to make effective relationships with others
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent keyboard and computer skills
Desirable
- Experience in primary care
- Working with EMIS
Qualifications
Essential
- Registration as a Pharmacy Technician with General Pharmaceutical Council
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 in pharmaceutical sciences (or equivalent)
Desirable
- Member of the Association of Pharmacy technicians UK (APTUK)
- Completed, or currently undertaking, the NHSE/CPPE primary care pharmacy education pathway
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community, or hospital pharmacy
- Good verbal and written communication
- Good interpersonal skills, ability to make effective relationships with others
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent keyboard and computer skills
Desirable
- Experience in primary care
- Working with EMIS
Qualifications
Essential
- Registration as a Pharmacy Technician with General Pharmaceutical Council
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 in pharmaceutical sciences (or equivalent)
Desirable
- Member of the Association of Pharmacy technicians UK (APTUK)
- Completed, or currently undertaking, the NHSE/CPPE primary care pharmacy education pathway
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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