Pharmacy Technician

Undertake patient-facing and patient-supporting roles to ensure effective medicine use through shared decision-making conversations with patients. Carry out medicine optimisation tasks, including effective medicine administration (e.g., checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews, and reconciliation of medicines. 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 inequalities. 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 service. 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 PCNs, 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) and; Develop relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and member of the multi-disciplinary team to support the integration of the pharmacy team across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health. Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data. To undertake audits, share the outcomes to facilitate improvement and changes in practice. To review and action medication safety alerts when required. Support the PCN to deliver national requirements, QJPP indicators, NICE implementation, QOF and locally commissioned enhanced service and utilisation of medicines optimisation initiative and support the PCN in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC requirements. The post holder will: Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity. The post holder must be aware of and committed to the Equality and Diversity policies of Tyntesfield Medical Group 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. Have, or acquire through training provided, the appropriate level of safeguarding and knowledge, skills and practice required for the post and be aware of and comply with the organisation's safeguarding protection policies and procedures. Ensure that any infection prevention and control issues are reported to the line manager/infection prevention and control lead.

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