PCN - Pharmacy Technician
| Posting date: | 24 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £30,112.20 to £32,833.50 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £30112.20 - £32833.50 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 May 2025 |
| Location: | Chesterfield, S41 8NG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A3065-25-0009 |
Summary
Key duties and responsibilities 1. Patient facing medicines support Whether via clinics on demand in response to tasks or other workflows methods, stratifying and triaging the need for technical reviews, medicines adherence reviews (including polypharmacy reviews), focal long-term condition/clinical reviews (see section 3) or holistic long-term condition/clinical reviews (structured medication reviews). Provide support for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines. 2. Medicines related clinical support for care homes Whilst pharmacists represent the practice and pharmacy team in care home multi-disciplinary team clinical medication reviews, where appropriate and within the scope, technical aspects around this process can be delegated to pharmacy technicians. Work with care home staff and aging well team to optimise medicines management, and support safe and effective prescribing, and medicines use. 3. Long-term condition Clinics With direct supervision or under a robust SOP, and where in the pharmacy technician's scope of clinic competence, some reviews under the remit of long-term condition planning and review can be delivered by pharmacy technicians. Examples of this include DOAC reviews, statin initiation counselling and asthma reviews. 4. Risk stratification Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. This includes prescription services software such as Eclipse Live Radar 500 searches. Wherever possible, technicians will be accountable for reviewing the results of these searches, with clinical pharmacists being responsible for supporting pharmacy technician's where managing high-risk patient's is outside the scope of their competence, or directly covering during leave and exceptional circumstances. 6. Unplanned hospital admissions With the supervision of a clinical pharmacist, review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups. 7. Management of medicines at discharge from hospital Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care Homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. With the supervision of a clinical pharmacist, set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g., those with medicine compliance aids or those in Care Homes). 8. Medicine information to practice staff and patients Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams (e.g., community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions, seeking support from a clinical pharmacist where needed. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes. 9. Signposting Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate time period e.g., pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc. 10. Repeat prescribing Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required. 11. Service development Contribute technical pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g., advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets). 12. Information management Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making. 13. Medicines quality improvement Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs and the PCN team, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team, and with the supervision and support of a clinical pharmacist as necessary. 14. Medicines safety Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance, with the supervision and support of a clinical pharmacist as necessary. 15. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations With the supervision of a clinical pharmacist, monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on each practices computer system. Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages. 16. Education and Training With the supervision of a clinical pharmacist, provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. 17. Care Quality Commission With the supervision of a clinical pharmacist, work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. 18. Public health Support public health campaigns 19. Collaborative working arrangements As part of an integrated pharmacy team, foster and maintain collaborative working relationships with practice teams, ICB colleagues including medicines management pharmacy professionals, the aging well team and social prescribing team, and all other relevant services across the PCN and other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit the practice and its patients.