Pharmacy Technician- South Bucks Primary Care - Iver, United Kingdom - FedBucks Ltd

FedBucks Ltd

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Iver, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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South Bucks Primary Care Network

Base:
Iver Medical Centre

Salary - From £25,000 dependant on experience

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week

NHS Pension

33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Pharmacy Technician to join our developing primary care network team within South Bucks PCN, we provide high quality support to our patients and are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join the team to support us in achieving this.

The network is already experienced in working with clinical pharmacists/ technicians and this role will provide a great opportunity to join a committed team as well as having access to national training through the NHS England Clinical Training Pathway and be part of a local network of clinical pharmacists/technicians.

We are looking for a collaborative, motivated and forward-thinking technician.

The role will involve supporting medicines management by working within the general practice setting, with the support of Senior Clinical Pharmacist.

You will provide specialist medicines management advice to patients and other healthcare professionals, to promote the safe, effective and high-quality, cost-effective use of medicines in all prescribing decisions.

The role will also focus on improving the repeat prescribing process, relieving clinical workload pressures.

The post holder will benefit from:

Regular supervision from pharmacy team
Opportunities to develop their clinical practice
Support to enrol in and complete the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway
Being part of a friendly and forward thinking PCN team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- 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, as determined by the PCN, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking with local community pharmacists.
- provide specialist expertise, where competent, to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.
- take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients.
- support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.
- 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 GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking clinical audits (e.g. use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services.

We are a federation of 45 GP practices covering a population of over 485,000 patients across Buckinghamshire.

We began in 2016 and now employ around 200 members of staff across our head office sites, and our planned and unplanned care services.

As a GP Federation, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion primary care by working with local general practice and system partners in the provision of community-based healthcare services.

We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of primary and unplanned healthcare services in Buckinghamshire and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in ensuring our patients feel safe, supported, communicated with and respected, at a time when they may be feeling vulnerable.

Our vision is to provide high quality, seamless health care that enables people to lead healthier lives, whilst feeling supported and cared for.

Salary:
From £26,500.00 per year

Benefits: