Locum Pharmacy Technician

The Pharmacy Technician is to assume the following key responsibilities in delivering health services a. Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use through shared decision-making conversations with patients. b. Conduct medicine optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g., checking inhaler technique), support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. c. When required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively d. Support, as determined by the Practice Pharmacist, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronise medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking with local community pharmacists e. Provide specialist expertise, when 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 f. Maintain a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaise with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients g. Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing h. Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits; i. 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 services; j. Contribute to public health campaigns (e.g., COVID-19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care k. Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area at all times l. Medicines safety Work with the clinical pharmacist team and medicines safety leads to implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. Technical and administrative responsibilities The technical and administrative responsibilities of the Pharmacy Technician: a. Work with the the Practice multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation including implementing efficient ordering and return processes and reducing wastage b. 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 c. Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems across the practice, 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 d. Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) e. Develop relationships with other Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacists and members 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 f. Support the delivery of QOF, incentive schemes, QIPP and other quality or cost effectiveness initiatives g. Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner h. Duties may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility. i.There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels.