Job Title: Pharmacy Technician
Contract Type: Self-employment Contract
Work Location: Utopia House, 206 High Road, Willesden, London, NW10 2PB
Hours: Full-Time/Part-Time
Reports to the Senior Clinical Pharmacist/ GP lead for Pharmacist
Salary: £15 to £20 an hour (depending on experience)
Job Context and Summary:
Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice is part of an exciting programme of
transformation to develop a new model of care which addresses our ambition to
deliver person-centered, coordinated care in our Practices. The Clinical Pharmacy
in General Practice model is supported by the direction of national policy including
the Five Year Forward View and GP Forward View where there is a need to better
utilise the role of pharmacy within primary care to pro-actively help patients stay
safe and well and out of hospital as well as helping to reduce the demands on
general practice.
Pharmacy technicians play an important role, complementing clinical pharmacists,
community pharmacists and other members of the PCN multi-disciplinary team.
Pharmacy technicians are different to clinical pharmacists as they are not able to
prescribe or make clinical decisions, instead working under supervision to ensure
effective and efficient use of medicines.
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.
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.
Job Specific responsibilities-
Clinical:
- Work with the Clinical Pharmacists and Clinicians in accordance with agreed
- practice prescribing standard operating procedures.
- Process repeat medication requests, including the conversion of acute requests to repeat medicines, changing quantities of medicines. Processingprescriptions in line with agreed clinical protocols and within your competency
- As determined by the PCN, support medication reviews/monitoring and medicines reconciliation post discharge (or other transfer of care) and synchronizing medicines for patient especially if transferring between caresettings, linking with local community pharmacies.shared decision-making conversations with patients.
- Reviews (SMR) i.e. organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR.complex patients.support of the Pharmacist
- Undertake patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through
- Support the Clinicians and Clinical Pharmacists in Structure Medication
- Manage shared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more
- To develop and maintain medicines related communication to all Practice staff
- To assist with the development and review of medicine audits
- Provide a contact for patients and colleagues with medication queries.
- Support with project work/prescribing initiatives/clinical audits under the
- Liaise with Clinicians and staff to resolve prescribing queries.
Technical and Administrative:
- To update and maintain accurate patient medication records on the practice clinical computer system, including advice given and action taken.
- To assist the Pharmacist with data analysis of prescribing behaviour in line with NICE guidance and local clinical commissioning directives.
- To adhere to strict confidentiality policies at all times.
- Attend local meetings seeking to improve access to medicines or repeat
- prescribing processes.
- Support the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines
- optimization processes are being followed.
- Implement efficient ordering and return processes and reducing medication
- wastage.
- Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the
- multi-disciplinary team to support integration across health and social careincluding primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and mentalhealth.
- Support promotion and maintenance of Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and
- online ordering.
- Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of
- medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service(EPS).
- Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the
- multi-disciplinary team to support integration across health and social careincluding primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and mentalhealth.
- Support the development of practice reception teams in streaming general
- prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review themore clinically complex patients.
- Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.Prevention) agenda, QOF (Quality and Outcomes Framework) and locallycommissioned enhanced services.Quality Commission) requirements.
- Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP (Quality, Innovation, Productivity and
- Support the PCN in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC Care
- Quality Commission) requirements.
All Pharmacy Technicians must work within their competencies, and have
professional indemnity for their role.
Person specification
Qualifications and Experience
Essential :
- Professional registration with GPhC.
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences.
- Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy.
Desirable:
- Evidence of continued professional development (CPD).
Pay: £15.00-£20.00 per hour
Expected hours: No more than 37.5 per week
Benefits:
- Free parking
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
