Pharmacy Technician
| Posting date: | 30 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2025 |
| Location: | Blackpool, FY1 6JW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A2571-25-0002 |
Summary
Responsibilities: Provide medicines optimisation advice to the team to promote the safe, effective, quality and cost-effective use of medicines. To reconcile medicines for newly registered patients and following hospital discharge or outpatient consultation. Work with patients/carers and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines intended. Support patients directly with their medicines, e.g. counselling on purpose and correct use, advising on inhaler technique or topical product application, education on how to order repeat prescriptions, resolving adherence problems. Referring patients to other members of the team where an identified need arises. Carry out housekeeping whilst in patient records e.g. dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation. Support repeat prescribing systems and processes in practice with a focus on quality improvement and supporting safe prescribing. Support the team by helping with queries relating to prescription requests and look for ways to improve the efficiency and safety of the prescription issuing process, ensuring queries are resolved and scripts issued in line with the practice process. Deal with patient medication queries e.g. dose schedule, side effects, adverse effects and out of stocks, swallowing difficulties, urgent requests. Manage acute requests for medications within scope of practice Resolve queries with prescriptions and issue certain medication where appropriate in line with practice protocols. Participate in practice clinical meetings, patient participation groups, and other meetings to improve engagement of the role of pharmacy technician and promote issues relevant to prescribing and medicines optimisation. Help implement electronic prescribing and repeat dispensing in appropriate patients including working with community pharmacy staff to identify appropriate patients. Undertake clinical audit and analyse prescribing data to increase our understanding of medicines use and identify areas for improvement. Review data, reports and dashboards to identify areas for action. Utilise clinical alert systems, e.g. Eclipse, and action any patients flagged up for review. Assist the practice in achieving goals/targets set within service specifications, contracts, protocols or guidelines. Review medicines safety alerts and other alerts distributed on the cascade system, recommend and implement necessary actions arising from these. Assist with managing the formulary to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing and to reflect local prescribing policy. Provide medicines related training to staff. Provide back-fill support to the prescription clerks during periods of leave or other absence, in order to maintain an effective repeat prescription service, as necessary. Must have completed or be enrolled in, be undertaking or be prepared to start an approved 18-month training pathway (e.g. Primary care pharmacy educational pathway (PCPEP)). Pharmacy technicians must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. Entry to the PCPEP programme will include the option for an accreditation of Prior Learning (APEL) process. The post holder is required to travel independently between work sites and to attend meetings, etc, hosted by other agencies. This job description is not meant to be exhaustive. It describes the main duties and responsibilities of the post. The candidate would be expected to undertake any other duties commensurate with the role as agreed with the practice.