Pharmacy Technician - part-time

Job description Job responsibilities Main Duties and Responsibilities

The following is not an exhaustive list and the post holder may at times need to undertake duties as per the needs of the PCN.

Manage incoming medication requests, e.g. from Patients, Pharmacies, Care Homes etc.

Assisting the Practice admin teams with medication queries.

Liaise with patients to resolve queries and support their use of medication.

Contribute towards improvement of prescribing processes in general practice.

Conducts medicines reconciliation for patients discharged from hospital.

Promotion of electronic repeat dispensing and online ordering.

Carry out housekeeping whilst in patient records e.g. dose optimisation and medicines synchronization.

Use and maintain information systems and databases relevant to the position including incident reporting, medicines optimisation, prescribing data, cost savings and patient outcomes.

Handle function specific information, which may be sensitive, complex or confidential and appropriately recording, transferring and/or coordinating such information in accordance with the Data Protection Act, Caldicott Guidelines and the Confidentiality Code of Conduct.

To utilise GP practice clinical systems to conduct prescribing audits.

To undertake, participate and share the outcomes of clinical audits to facilitate improvement and changes in practice.

Support the role of the Clinical Pharmacist on the delivery of the new Primary Care Networks specification model.

Where applicable, contribute and participate in practice meetings, patient participation groups, and other meetings to improve engagement of the role of pharmacy technician and to promote issues relevant to prescribing and medicines optimization.

To be responsible for the organisation and planning of own workload to meet set deadlines.

To undertake learning and development to maintain the required knowledge and skills for practice based work

To carry out other duties which are appropriate to the skills and competencies of the post holder and grade of the post as the priorities of the service change.

Work autonomously within agreed parameters.