NhsJobs Lincoln

Post Title: Pharmacy Technician

Reports to: PCN Pharmacist

GP Partners

JOB SUMMARY

To support the Practice Pharmacist to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes.

Assist the Practice Pharmacist and the GP Partnership to provide medication services to patients via clinics in the practice, domiciliary visits and in residential and nursing homes, and to deliver pharmaceutical care plans that maximise cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient care.

Job Responsibilities

• To support, train and oversee the administrative staff involved in the preparation of repeat prescriptions and to participate in the daily preparation of repeat prescriptions in order to ensure high quality, safe and timely repeat prescribing

• To support the administration staff with medicines reconciliation in accordance with practice protocols and to update patients medical records / prescribing accordingly

• To contribute to the review and development of repeat prescribing protocols /Standard Operating Procedures to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of repeat prescribing systems

• To provide advice to GPs, staff and patients in changes to prescribing in order to support the improvement of prescribing safety, quality and cost effectiveness

• To participate in medication audits

• To assist in the appropriate monitoring and management of prescribing the budgets and to liaise with the medicines management team at the ICB

• To prepare evidence based resources and information to support the implementation of rational cost-effective prescribing

• To support the PCN Pharmacist to provide medication reviews, patient information leaflets, medicine awareness

• To take a proactive approach to the safe handling of prescriptions, including assessment of risk and making recommendations for improvement

• To respond to medication queries from patients and staff in a professional manner referring to the appropriate GP in accordance with practice protocols

• To advise on the sourcing and safe management of medicines as appropriate

• To assist in the submission of claims for personally administered drugs as required

• To act as a link between practice and local community and hospital pharmacy services

Responsibility for administration

• Taking messages and passing on information as appropriate

• Computer data entry, processing and recording information in accordance with practice procedures

• Initiating contact with and responding to requests from patients , other team members and associated healthcare professionals and providers

• Helping to maintain a positive and patient focussed culture

• Helping to maintain a positive and supportive culture across the whole of the practice team

• Other administration duties as required

Staff Management

• To provide supervision, training and professional leadership to the practice administration staff/ prescribing staff as required

Patient Services

Provide telephone and patient facing medicines support for patients

Provide medication review services to patients via clinics in the practice, domiciliary visits and in care homes, and to deliver pharmaceutical care plans that maximise cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient care.

To present at patient group meetings or other appropriate events to give medicines advice and information

To produce patient information leaflets and posters and run medicines awareness projects throughout the year.

Assist the Partnership with the appropriate monitoring and management of prescribing budgets.

To prepare evidence based resources and information to support the medicines management team and all other health professionals in the implementation of rational cost effective prescribing.

To help plan, develop and support the introduction of new working processes within the practice to optimise the quality of prescribing.

To be innovative and demonstrate a commitment to improve skills and abilities in self and others with regard to patient services.

Communication

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

Communicate effectively with other team members

Communicate effectively with patients and carers

Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Confidentiality:

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

Health & safety:

The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines

Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines

Correct use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Use and monitoring of the correct use of Standard Operating Procedures for cleaning and infection control

Responsible for correct hand hygiene of self and others

Ownership of infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols within the team

Active observation of current working practices across the team in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses / training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate

Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process

Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills across the full range of infection control and patient processes

Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to own role in infection control, ensuring that provision of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc. are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate.

Safe management of sharps procedures, including use, storage and disposal

Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management

Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised

Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector managers

Undertaking periodic infection control training

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

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