Pharmacy Technician – WAND04

Job Description

Medicines Optimisation and Safety:

• Work alongside PCN Pharmacists to ensure safe and robust medicines management processes for patients within the PCN.
• Support with repeat prescribing to ensure the PCN is prescribing safely and appropriately according to local and national guidelines.
• Support with the monthly prescription requests for the care homes within the PCN.
• Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation.
• Utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
• Ensure patients have adequate monitoring and medication reviews.
• Work alongside the patient services advisors to handle medication queries from patients with support from PCN clinical pharmacists and other PCN colleagues.
• Work alongside the patient services advisors to handle medication related queries from external sources such as community pharmacists, district nurses, hospitals etc.
• Support PCN clinical pharmacist with structured medication reviews.
• Improve the safety and efficacy monitoring for patients prescribed medication.
• Promote lifestyle measures and interventions for patients at risk.
• Promote the uptake of appropriate electronic repeat dispensing and online ordering.
• Support the practice to respond to medication related alerts and audits.
• Support with medication reconciliation from inpatient hospital discharges, outpatient clinic letters and other transfer of care information and communication.
• Support with shared care prescribing, ensuring specifications of the agreements are in place prior to accepting and that patients are routinely monitored as per the agreements.
• Support with standardisation of the implementation of local and national policies encouraging self-care and reduction of the prescribing of over-the-counter products.
• Support with the delivery of the CCG Prescribing Incentive Schemes.
• Support with the delivery of the PCN DES / IIF where clinically appropriate.
• Support with delivery of vaccinations where clinically appropriate.
• Supporting antimicrobial stewardship within the PCN.

Management and Administration:

• Develop medication related policies and SOPs.
• Support to implement policies and SOPs at practices within the PCN where appropriate.
• Deliver supervision and training for pharmacy technicians as the team grows.
• Actively participate as a representative of the PCN in forums and meetings within the PCN and externally with stakeholders such as CCG where appropriate.
• Lead and/or support with quality improvement initiatives.
• Act as a role model and promote the PCN Pharmacy Service within the PCN where appropriate.
• Deputise as medicines management lead in absence of clinical pharmacist in practice.

Education and Training:

• Deliver structured or ad-hoc training to patient services advisors and/or other clinical and non-clinical staff on medicines management. This is to aid in the upskilling of staff within the PCN to allow increased efficiency of activity by members of the PCN.
• Enrol in, undertaking or qualified from an approved PCN Pharmacy Technician training pathway. For example the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH)
• Supervise junior pharmacy technicians where appropriate.

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