Pharmacy Technician

JOB DESCRIPTION FOR THE POST OF PHARMACY TECHNICIAN One Thornton Heath Primary Care Network REPORTS TO: PCN Clinical Directors and Business Lead Job Summary: The role requires participation in all aspects of patient care through knowledge gained from training, working for One Thornton Heath PCN across six GP practices as part of their multidisciplinary healthcare professional teams and will be supported and supervised by a GP Supervisor. This is a key position within our developing PCN and involvement in routine care ensures the post holder has the necessary breadth of training and ongoing clinical challenge. Job Responsibilities: · 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, 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, supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services. Main Duties Include: · Support the PCN to reduce medicines related harm. · Lead on high risk drugs monitoring and medicines safety audits