Pharmacy Technician

at  Suffolk Primary Care

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 medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients, 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 liaise with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients. Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.
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 efficient medicines optimisation. Help guide and advise practice care navigation in sorting and streaming general prescription requests to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.
Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems across practices, supporting 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). Plan and organise own workload, and support Clinical Pharmacists and colleagues, as well as patients and carers. Maintain registration as a pharmacy technician and comply with appropriate professional codes.
Maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with medical/therapeutic evidence and opinion, local and national service, legislation, and policy developments. Agree on objectives and a personal development plan, and participate in the appraisal process. Attend local, regional, and national meetings of relevance as agreed with the post holders line manager. Undertake any other duties commensurate with the post holders grade as agreed with the post holders line manager

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