Care Home Pharmacy Technician - Bolton, United Kingdom - Kearsley Medical Centre

Kearsley Medical Centre

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Bolton, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Lead Employer:
Kearsley Medical Centre

Reports to:
Prescribing Lead Partner (Clinically), Practice Manager (Administratively)

Hours: 37.5 per week

Pay:
Band 6

Purpose of the role

Pharmacy technicians play an important role, complementing clinical pharmacists, community pharmacists and other members of the PCN multi-disciplinary team to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost effective best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care for patients residing within Care Homes within Farnworth & Kersley PCN.

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.

Key duties and responsibilities

1. Medication support

Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with care home patients/advocates.

2. Medication review/reconciliation

As determined by the PCN, 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.

3. SMR support
Support the Care Home Pharmacist in Structure Medication Reviews (SMR) i.e. organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR.

4. Medicine information to practice and care home staff
Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and care home staff with queries about medicines, within the competencies of your role. Escalate anything outside of your remit to the Care Home Pharmacist, Prescribing Lead or other appropriate clinician.

6. Public health

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.

7. Shared Care Protocols
Manage shared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients.

8. Inappropriate Antibiotic prescribing
Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.

9. Medication ordering processes

Assist in the development and adhere to efficient ordering and return processes and reducing medication wastage, supporting the reception team in implementing any medication ordering processes.

10. Training and support

Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).

11. Working relationships

Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the multi-disciplinary team to support integration across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and mental health.

Including but not limited to:
GPs, nurses, social prescribers, paramedics

12. National prescribing policies
Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within the PCN in relation to Care Home residents.

13. IIF
Work towards any Pharmacy related IIF targets.

Work with team members and Prescribing Lead to develop and implement plans to achieve IIF targets and update PCN accordingly.

14.
Participation in meetings

Participate and engage in monthly pharmacy team meeting to discuss workload, highlight any issues, adapt any learning from team members or Prescribing Lead, identify, plan and update any targets, and any other role relevant meetings as needed.

15. Care Quality Commission
Work with the Lead Employer team to ensure the PCN is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

16. Information management
Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.

Professional development

Work with your line manager to undertake continual personal and professional development, taking an active part in reviewing and developing the role and responsibilities.
Adhere to organisational policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety.
Work with your line manager to access regular 'clinical supervision', to enable you to deal effectively with the difficult issues that people present.
Review yearly progress