Pharmacy Technician - Haywards Heath Central PCN

at  Alliance for Better Care

Reports to: PCN Clinical Pharmacists and Practice Managers
Responsible to: PCN Clinical Pharmacist
Proposed salary: Band 5.1 – 5.10 on the ABC pay scale, which is equivalent to £26,747.94 - £31,966.27 per annum dependent on experience (pro rata)
Hours of work: Full time (37.5 hours) and part-time applications will be considered
Base: The successful candidate will be based predominantly at Dolphins Practice but there may be a need to cross cover to support both Core Network Practices as needed

JOB SUMMARY

The post holder will work with an established Clinical Pharmacist team across the PCN and will be assigned a lead clinical and operational contact. This post is part of the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme for Primary Care Networks funded by NHS England and includes funded access to the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway pilot for pharmacy technicians.
The ambition is 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.
The post holder is a Pharmacy Technician, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting pharmacists in general practice to ensure effective and efficient use of medicines. In this role they will be supervised by a pharmacist who will develop, manage and mentor them.
The Pharmacy technicians’ core role responsibilities will cover clinical, technical and administrative categories.
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and this role involves provision of technical support for the pharmacy service to ensure professional operational standards and excellence in pharmaceutical care and safety are maintained.
The role will support the practices within Haywards Heath Central PCN to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and efficient systems for medicines related clinical correspondence; repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes.
The post holder will support training and development of administrators to support safe, effective and efficient processes involving medicines with a particular focus on repeat prescribing processes and will also provide support to general practice staff and patients regarding prescription and medication queries. They will also help to develop and improve repeat prescribing & medicines reconciliation processes and systems for safer prescribing.
The post holder will ensure that the service is integrated with community and hospital pharmacy to improve patient outcomes. The pharmacy technicians will work closely with the ICB Medicines Optimisation teams, community pharmacists and hospital pharmacy teams to support an integrated approach to prescribing and medicines optimisation which works towards shared goals.
The post holder will be supported in terms of professional development through a structured programme of local education. Peer-support is provided from within the PCN, supported by a local pharmacy network.
An enhanced DBS check will be carried out for all successful candidates. The post holder will occasionally be expected to travel between named practices and meetings across the patch.
The post holder will also support quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services and contribute to the delivery of the local medicines’ optimisation strategy.