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    Pharmacy Technician - Sandbach, United Kingdom - Ashfields Primary Care Centre

    Ashfields Primary Care Centre
    Ashfields Primary Care Centre Sandbach, United Kingdom

    1 week ago

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    Permanent
    Description

    Job summary

    We have had our own Clinical Pharmacy team for several years. The Pharmacy Technician will be working alongside our 5 Clinical Pharmacists and 2 Pharmacy Technicians as well as our Prescriptions admin team, be based at our purpose built surgery in Sandbach, and will be an integral part of the clinical team.

    Main duties of the job

    You will support the practice with it's prescribing, the management of long term conditions, and patients in Care Homes, medical information queries, and discharge medication reconciliation. You will be involved in improving prescribing safety and quality improvement.

    We are looking for the right person to join us, so would consider part or full-time. Primary care experience is preferred, but not essential. You will work closely with the Pharmacist and Prescriptions team, to will enable mentoring and on the job training

    About us

    Ashfields is a large, successful practice committed to quality, innovation, and are forward thinking in our delivery of care. We are the only GP practice in Sandbach providing a fully integrated primary care service. We are a progressive teaching practice, looking after more than 28,000 patients, have a wide multidisciplinary team and are involved in our local Primary Care Network. We encourage training and development, we strive to provide excellent patient care, and are happy to achieve high patient satisfaction scores.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    The following are the core responsibilities of the pharmacy technician. There may be on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels.

  • Support the role of the Clinical Pharmacists in the delivery of clinical pharmacy services.
  • Perform medicines improvement work to maximise safe, cost-effective best practice in prescribing under the supervision of the GP or Clinical Pharmacist.
  • Assist with medication safety monitoring systems ( high-risk drugs.)
  • Liaise with clinicians, administrative staff and patients to resolve medicine-related queries.
  • Monitor practice prescribing and local and national prescribing policies.
  • Improve service and quality through mechanisms such as audits.
  • Support the Clinical Pharmacists in Structured Medication Reviews.
  • Undertake patient-facing and patient-supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use through shared decision-making.
  • Support medicine reconciliation of patients whose care is transferred back into primary care in a timely and effective manner liaising with patients and other providers to ensure patients receive appropriate medication post discharge.
  • Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration and supporting medication reviews.
  • Assist Clinical Pharmacists with any searches (including regular safety searches), data collection, medicine safety tasks.
  • Support the practice to deliver on the Quality and Outworks Framework (QOF), Network Contract Direct Enhanced Services and locally commissioned enhanced services.
  • Implement changes to medication that result from CAS/MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local/national guidance.
  • Work collaboratively with the Primary Care Network (PCN) team.
  • Develop relationships and work closely with community, hospital and Medicines Management Team (MMT) pharmacy colleagues and the wider health system.
  • Participate in practice meetings, patient participation groups and other local meetings to improve engagement with the role of pharmacy technician.
    • Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
  • BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical science/pharmacy services
  • Evidence of continued professional development

    • Experience

    Essential

  • Understanding of clinical knowledge and principles of evidence-based healthcare
  • Experience of dealing with a range of clinical conditions
  • Experience of working with delegated responsibility
  • Experience of working within Primary Care, Community or Hospital Setting
  • Experience of coping under pressure in a busy environment

    • Desirable

  • Minimum of 2 years post qualification

    • Skills

    Essential

  • Excellent Communication Skills
  • Strong IT Skills
  • Able to manage own workload and prioritise work effectively in order to meet deadlines
  • Ability to work to protocols
  • Effective time management (Planning and organizing)
  • Proven problem solving and analytical skills
  • Ability to develop, implement and embed policy and procedure
  • Knowledge of GDPR and confidentiality

    • Desirable

  • EMIS user skills
  • Proven high level Microsoft Excel and word document skills

    • Personal Qualities

    Essential

  • Polite and confident
  • Flexible and cooperative
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Motivated and proactive
  • Ability to use initiative and judgement
  • Forward thinker with a solutions focused approach
  • High levels of integrity and loyalty
  • Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Confident, assertive and resilient

    • Other Requirements

    Essential

  • Flexibility to work outside of core office hours
  • Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check
  • Maintains confidentiality at all times
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