NhsJobs Rugby

Duties and Responsibilities

The Pharmacy Technician has the following key clinical, and technical and administrative responsibilities,

in delivering health services:

Clinical Responsibilities:

Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through

shared decision-making conversations with patients;

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;

Support, as determined by the PCN, 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.

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

inequalitie; i.e. take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with

specialist pharmacists for more complex patients;

Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialist

pharmacists for more complex patients;

Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing;

Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient

safety audits;

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;

Technical and Administrative Responsibilities:

Work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including

implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage;

Supervise practice reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, so as

to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests;

Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems across the PCN, supporting practices with

a range of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and implementing

Electronic Prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and timely monitoring and management

of high-risk medicines;

Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the

implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)

Develop relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the multi

disciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across health and social care

including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health

Handle 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 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

Any other duties as may be requested by the Clinical Lead or Operations Director of the PCN

Job description

Duties and Responsibilities

The Pharmacy Technician has the following key clinical, and technical and administrative responsibilities,

in delivering health services:

Clinical Responsibilities:

Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through

shared decision-making conversations with patients;

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;

Support, as determined by the PCN, 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.

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

inequalitie; i.e. take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with

specialist pharmacists for more complex patients;

Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialist

pharmacists for more complex patients;

Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing;

Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient

safety audits;

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;

Technical and Administrative Responsibilities:

Work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including

implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage;

Supervise practice reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, so as

to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests;

Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems across the PCN, supporting practices with

a range of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and implementing

Electronic Prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and timely monitoring and management

of high-risk medicines;

Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the

implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)

Develop relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the multi

disciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across health and social care

including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health

Handle 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 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

Any other duties as may be requested by the Clinical Lead or Operations Director of the PCN

What is the salary for this pharmacy technician role in Rugby?

The advertised salary for this pharmacy technician role at Rugby Health Limited is £36261.00 p.a.. Typical pharmacy technician pay in Rugby varies by experience, sector (NHS versus community), and employer; see the PharmSee UK pharmacy salary guide for benchmarks.

How many pharmacy jobs are currently open in Rugby?

PharmSee is currently tracking 3 active pharmacy vacancies in Rugby across 11 major UK chains and NHS sources. Browse every open Rugby pharmacy role on PharmSee's jobs search.

How do I apply for this role?

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