NhsJobs Hartlepool

Job Scope

Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice is

part of an exciting programme of transformation to develop a new model of care

which addresses our ambition to deliver person-centred, coordinated care across

the district. The Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice model is supported by

the direction of national policy including the Five Year Forward View and GP

Forward View where there is a need to better utilise the role of pharmacy

within primary care to pro-actively help patients stay safe and well and out of

hospital as well as helping to reduce the demands on general practice.

Pharmacy technicians play an important role, complementing

clinical pharmacists, community pharmacists and other members of the PCN multi-

disciplinary team. The post holder is a Pharmacy Technician who acts

autonomously within their professional boundaries, with appropriate clinical

supervision and support where required. The post holder will provide expert

pharmaceutical technical support to support medicines optimisation work

programme. They will carry out medicines optimisation tasks, including

effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting

medication reviews and medicines reconciliation, using their professional

judgement and working autonomously within their scope of practice, with access

to clinical supervision as required.

The purpose of the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost-effective

best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care. The post

holder will undertake clinical audits across the Primary Care Network (PCN),

analyse and evaluate the findings, and share reports with GP practices to

highlight progress, identify areas for improvement, and support the

implementation of appropriate actions. The post holder will help patients to

get the best from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and

approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practice,

including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising

clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.

In addition, the post holder will be

responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the

principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and

promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments. This will

involve assisting the PCN in achieving national requirements, NICE

implementation and utilisation of medicines optimisation initiatives.

Key duties

and responsibilities

Clinical

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, acting autonomously

within professional boundaries with appropriate clinical supervision and

support where required.

Utilise consultation skills to work in

partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.

Undertake clinical audits across the Primary

Care Network (PCN), analyse and evaluate the findings, and share reports with

GP practices

As determined by the PCN, support medication

reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and

synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking

with local community pharmacies

Support the Clinical Pharmacist in Structured

Medication Reviews (SMR)

Provide expertise to address both the public

health and social care needs of

patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.

Manage shared care protocols and liaise with

Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients.

Support initiatives for antimicrobial

stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.

Technical and Administrative

Support the PCN multi-disciplinary team to

ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.

Implement efficient ordering and return

processes and reducing medication wastage.

Provide training and support on the legal,

safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the

Electronic Prescription Service

(EPS).

Promotion of Electronic Repeat Dispensing

(eRD) and online ordering

Develop relationships with other pharmacy

professionals and members of the multi-disciplinary team to support integration

across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy,

secondary care and mental health.

Support practice reception teams in streaming

general prescription requests, so

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

Support the implementation of national

prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other

primary care settings.

Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF

and locally commissioned enhanced services

Supporting quality improvement measures and

contributing to the Quality and

Outcomes Framework and enhanced services;

Support the PCN in reviewing and developing

practice policies for CQC

requirements.

Undertake monitoring searches including CQC

performance and safety searches in line with the needs of the practices or PCN

Undertake duties as per agreed job plan.

General

The Post Holder will:

Develop a culture that promotes equality and

values diversity. The postholder must be aware of and committed to the Equality

and Diversity policies of the appointing GP Practice and PCN and comply with all the

requirements of these policies and actively promote Equality and Diversity

issues relevant to the post.

Ensure the principles of openness,

transparency and candour are observed

and upheld in all working practices.

The post holder will have, or acquire through

training provided by the organisation, the appropriate level of safeguarding

and knowledge, skills and practice

required for the post

and be aware of and comply with the

organisations safeguarding protection policies and procedures.

Ensure that

any infection prevention and control issues are reported to the line

manager/Infection Prevention and Control

Equality & Diversity

The post-holder will support the equality,

diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

Acting in a way that recognises the importance

of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice

procedures and policies, and current legislation

Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and

beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and

of the individual, is non- judgmental and respects their circumstances,

feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development

The post-holder will participate in any

training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with

such training to include:

Participation in an annual individual

performance review, including taking

responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development

Taking

responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating

skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain

quality within the practice, and will:

Alert other team members to issues of quality

and risk

Assess own performance and take accountability

for own actions, either directly or

under supervision

Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by

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

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