Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to work for Derbyshire Dales Primary Care Network (DDPCN) who work closely and in partnership with the 8 GP Practices that are situated in the north and central areas of the beautiful Derbyshire Dales.

DDPCN is looking to recruit a full time Pharmacy Technician to work at one of our stakeholder practices ,namely ,Evelyn Medical Centre ,Hope near Sheffield . This is a GP Practice operating from locations in Hope and Hathersage .

Job share can be considered for the successful applicants providing the overall working time hours are met.

You will be working with and led by our Lead Clinical Pharmacist, Clinical Director and PCN Management Team.

Daily you will be engaged by the Practice GPs and wider clinical teams within the setting .

Your goal will be to provide high-quality, integrated care for our patient community.

Main duties of the job

Job responsibilities

Clinical

- Undertake 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.

- As determined by the Practice and 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

- Support the clinical pharmacist to deliver structured medication reviews (SMRs) i.e., organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR

- 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.

- Manage shared care protocols and liaise with clinical pharmacist for more complex patients.

- Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.

About us

Evelyn Medical Centre is based in the Hope Village near Castleton and Bamford and have a branch site at Hathersage. The practice also serves patients living in the many picturesque villages surrounding such as Bradwell and Brough .

There is an excellent road infrastructure with access to the Snake Pass , Sheffield, Derby, towards Manchester and Staffordshire which make the job easily commutable from these areas .

You will be joining a friendly, forward thinking practice who work in partnership with the Derbyshire Dales PCN .

The PCN also supports 7 other practices in the area , several of which have experienced Pharmacy Technicians embedded as part of the practice team .

There are circa 50,000 patients within the PCN area receiving high quality patient focused care.

• There is an ethos amongst the practices to work collectively to deliver the Extended Access provision.
• All have high QOF achievement.
• Supportive nursing, administrative and ARRS teams at each practice location.
• TPP SystmOne and EMIS clinical systems.
• Informal visits are welcomed and encouraged ahead of formal application.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Support the Practice teams to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.

- Implement efficient ordering processes and reduce medication wastage.

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

- Promotion of Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering

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

- Support practice reception teams in streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.

- Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within the practice, care homes and other primary care settings.

- Support the Practice to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF and locally commissioned IIF enhanced services

- Support the Practice in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC requirements

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Good clinical pharmacy knowledge including terminology
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for the improvement of prescribing
• Knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law and ethics and current legislation
• Has attention to detail, able to work accurately, identifying errors quickly and easily
• Able to effectively manage allocated resources
• Has a planned and organised approach with an ability to prioritise their own workload to meet strict deadlines
• Able to think analytically; anticipating obstacles and thinking ahead; using analytical techniques to draw logical solutions to problems.
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to adjust communication style and content to suit the audience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with team members, patients, carers, and other healthcare professionals. Whilst recognising people's needs for alternative methods of communication
• An excellent understanding of data protection and confidentiality issues
• Works effectively independently and as a member of a team
• Flexible approach to meet service needs and ensure a stakeholder focused response
• Self-motivated and proactive
• Continued commitment to improve skills and ability in new areas of work
• Able to undertake the demands of the post with reasonable adjustments if required
• Independently mobile to be able to work across several sites and travel to meet with stakeholders
• Adaptability, flexibility, and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
• Demonstrate ability to work in a busy environment; ability to deal with both urgent and important tasks and to prioritise effectively whilst also supporting others
• Excellent time keeping and prioritisation skills
• Professional registration with GPhC
• BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
• Evidence of continued professional development -CPD
• Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community, or hospital pharmacy

Desirable

• Relevant advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of Primary Care Networks, General Practice, and evidence-based medicine
• An appreciation of the NHS agenda and Government targets
• Awareness of GP budget-management and funding systems to enable GP clinical pharmacist services to assist delivery of PCN and NHS priorities and requirements for financial balance and quality.
• Computer literate with an ability to use the required GP clinical systems and Microsoft office packages
• Understand the aims of current healthcare policy within the Practice and PCN
• Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data
• Influencing and negotiating skills
• Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities, and challenges
• Experience in Primary Care

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional registration with GPhC
• BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
• Evidence of continued professional development (CPD)
• Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy

Desirable

• Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges
• Experience in Primary Care

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Derbyshire Dales Primary Care Network

Address

Evelyn Medical Centre

Marsh Avenue

Hope

Hope Valley

Derbyshire

S33 6RJ

Employer's website

https://ddpcn.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)