Pharmacy Technician

As a member of the GP Practice Pharmacy Services Team the Pharmacy Technician supports the development and delivery of safe, effective and efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes.

Working alongside the Senior Pharmacy Technician and with Clinical Pharmacists, to contribute to high-quality, cost-effective and safe medicines management. This will include medicines reconciliation post discharge, transcribing from clinical letters as well as monitoring near patient testing for patients taking high risk medications.

• Patient facing clinical medication reviews
• Undertake medicines reconciliation in accordance with practice protocols
• Conducts medication use reviews independently within own competence including reauthorizing eRD
• Management of medicines
• Answers all medicine related enquiries from GPs
• Responds to daily anima eConsults
• To participate in medication audits.
• Assists with the management of MHRA Alerts,patient safety bulletins, medicines recalls and information on out-of-stock shortages etc.
• Report and investigate significant events.
• Works as part of the pharmacy service steam ensuring that any clinical documents received within the practice areactioned appropriately

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Key Responsibilities:

• Accurate transcription of medications from hospital discharge summaries and clinical letters
• Conducts medication use reviews independently within own competence including reauthorizing eRD
• To undertake medicines reconciliation in accordance with practice protocols and to update patients medical records accordingly. Indoing so ensures maintenance of accurate patient records and that all relevant information is documented in the patients medical notes in a timely manner
• Supports the Practice Based Clinical Pharmacist to provide medication review services to patients via clinics in the practice and telephone consultations.
• To respond to medication queries from patient sand staff in a professional manner within defined competencies only referring to the appropriate Clinical Pharmacist or GP in accordance with practiceprotocols. This involves using resources such as the BNF, SPCs, CCG Medicine Management Guidelines and NICE guidelines.
• Assists with the training and development of practice based receptionist / prescribing clerks and administrators to support improved co-ordination and effective pharmacy administration within the practice, especially in relation to repeat prescribing systems and processes.
• Liaising with local pharmacies regarding prescription queries to help ensure optimum therapy for patients as a result.
• To provide advice to GPs, staff and patients inchanges to prescribing to support the improvement of prescribing safety,quality and cost effectiveness.
• Conducts medication use reviews independently within own competence
• Promote cost-effective, safe, evidence based prescribing in accordance with local and national Medicines Optimisation Strategies
• To participate in medication audits.
• To support the achievement of the practices prescribing Quality and Outcomes Framework targets and any other medicine related enquiry or audit.
• To advise on the sourcing and safe management of medicines as appropriate.