Junior Pharmacy Technician
| Posting date: | 16 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £23,500.00 to £27,341.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £23500.00 - £27341.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2024 |
| Location: | Reading, RG2 0AR |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A0767-24-0011 |
Summary
Clinical: 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 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) 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. Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits. Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within the practice. This will be achieved through undertaking clinical audits (e.g. use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to all appropriate elements of the delivery of the Directed Enhanced Service. Work with pharmacy service team to develop safe, effective and efficient systems for the repeat prescribing of medication at scale across multiple GP sites Work with pharmacy service team to develop and implement systems to ensure the effective and continuous supply of medication to high risk patients Manage requests to prescribe medication from specialists in line with Berkshire West formulary and locally agreed guidelines Update patient medication records in line with incoming clinical correspondence Refer patients to their community pharmacist for support with using their medicines To respond to medication queries from patients and staff in a professional manner referring to the appropriate clinician in accordance with protocols and personal and professional boundaries. Provide support to patients to maximise the benefit from their medication Provide telephone support for patients with medication queries. Audit and risk stratification Participate in audit activities to optimise medicines safety and the use of prescribing resource Feedback results of clinical audit activities in areas agreed with the practice Make recommendations based on the outcomes of audit and shared learning activities Operational Performance Work collaboratively to help develop and promote a positive working culture, including involvement in developing, improving and promoting the pharmacy service Ensure adherence to efficient administrative processes within the pharmacy service Personal Contribution Maintain productive relationships encouraging the giving and receiving of regular feedback to create and maintain a culture of constantly seeking to refine and improve the service and learn together Engagement with patients, internal and external stakeholders Engage with users of the service to understand people’s experience of the service and to measure levels of satisfaction Responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development Responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work Quality Effectively manage own time, workload and resources Support training and development of administrative staff to support pharmacy service in line with protocols and procedures Work within risk management and health and safety policies and procedures within GP practices and other providers Adhere to a robust process for recording learning events, complaints, accidents and significant events To provide support to assist with the development and management of any changes or new processes and systems that need implementing.