Pharmacy Technician

The postholder is a Pharmacy Technician andis an integral part of the general practice team, working within their professional boundaries.

This rolewill work under the supervision of the Senior Clinical Pharmacist to ensure thesafe, accurate and timely supply of prescribed medication to patients.

They will provide technical and administrative support to the clinicians.

The Pharmacy Technician will support theorganisations clinical teams with queries regarding medication from patients.

The Pharmacy Technician will complete audits regarding patient safety in the prescribing of medication and present the information for sharing with the clinical team.

The Pharmacy Technician will be part of a small team of 3, Senior Clinical Pharmacist, the pharmacy Technician and a pharmacy support administrator. The team will ensure the safe and accurate use of all medication within the surgery.

The Chipping Surgery is based in the quite rural town of Wotton under Edge. You will be joining a hard working compassionate and professional team who strive to deliver the best service they can each and every day. We are very much a team who support each other in our newly refurbished bright and cheery building which benefits from a relaxed friendly working environment.

Staff very seldom leave, they normally retire.

Primary Responsibilities

The Pharmacy Technician is to assume the following key responsibilities in delivering health services.

a. Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use through shared decision-making conversations with patients.

b. Conduct medicine optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g., checking inhaler technique), support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. When required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.

c. Support, as determined by the organisation, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronise medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking with local communitypharmacists.

d. Provide specialist expertise, when competent, to address both thepublic health and social care needs of patients including lifestyle advice,service information and help in tackling local health inequalities.

e. Maintain a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaise with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients.

f.Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.

g. Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits.

h. Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.

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.

i.Attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective hasbeen set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objective scan be agreed.

j.Contribute to public health campaigns (e.g., COVID-19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care.

k. To always maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area.

• Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email and face to face
• Knowledge of IT systems, including the ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
• Good personal organisational skills
• Effective time management
• Demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience and work well under pressure
• Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct
• Ability to use own initiative, discretion and sensitivity
• Able to get along with people from all backgrounds and communities, respecting lifestyles and diversity
• Ability to use own initiative, discretion and sensitivity
• Flexible and cooperative
• Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
• Able to finish work tasks
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance and health and safety

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Meets the specific qualification and training requirements as specified by the GPhC criteria to register as a Pharmacy Technician
• Training requirements and further information are available at GPhC
• Enrolled in, undertaking or qualified from, an approved training pathway. For example, the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or…