Pharmacy Technician

Job description Job responsibilities Job Summary: To work under the supervision of the Practice Pharmacists to ensure the safe, accurate and timely supply of prescriptions to patients.To provide technical and administrative support to the Clinical Pharmacists and Clinicians.Support the Care Navigator team with complex queries around medication from patients. Complete audits around patient safety and cost-effective prescribing and present the information for sharing with the clinical team.Clinical responsibilitiesa. Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.b. 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.c. Support 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.d. 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.e. Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.f. Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits.g. Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance. 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.Management responsibilitiesa. Work with the practice multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage.b. Supervise practice Care Navigation team in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.c. Support initiatives for medicines optimisation systems to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and supporting Electronic Prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines.d. Provide training and support as requested, on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).e. Under the supervision of the Senior Practice Pharmacist- manage and action MHRA drug alerts, recording actions and working within required time frames.

f. Support the practice to meet local prescribing budgetary targets and performance schemes.Please see attached job description for full details.