Prescribing Technician

We are recruiting a Prescribing Technician to join our successful, innovative and happy practice. The post holder will be primarily responsible for the delivery of a patient-centred medication management service.

• Ensure the provision of high quality, customer focused services to support the practice and meet service demands.
• Ensure health and safety requirements are met and that the Practice complies with the Health & safety at Work legislation, carrying out a systematic program of risk assessments
• Ensure infection control policies are adhered to
• Manage data collection to support data requirements and claims

The current list size of Danetre Medical Practice is approximately 12,800. Any increase over the last ten years has been due mainly to; natural change (more births than deaths); building development within Daventry itself and more recently migration from the rest of the UK and overseas. The boundaries of the Practice show we are large in terms of geographical size, with the majority of the land classified as rural.

The practice itself is located in close proximity to Daventry Town centre in a modern building adjoining Danetre Hospital (a community hospital which opened in September 2006) offering a wide range of services and delivering a high standard of care. Also attached to the Practice operating independently is Boots Chemist.

Currently the practice works with 5 x GP partners, 1 x Managing Partner, 6 x salaried GPs, 3 x Practitioners, 3 x Clinical Pharmacists and over 250

Hrs of Clinical nursing support.

• To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
• Take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple long term conditions (in particular COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP - Stop Over Medication Programme).
• Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines while helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients and help in tackling inequalities.
• Provide leadership on person centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, while contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
• Through structured medication reviews support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
• Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.

• Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacists across networks and the wider health system.
• Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties) and anticoagulation.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating
• Adhere to quality governance systems, processes across the Practice and its activities; managing data…