pharmacy technician

Liverpool First Primary Care Network is looking to employ up to two pharmacy technicians under the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme to join Liverpool First PCN's pharmacy team and work across several of its 11 member practices: Abingdon Medical Centre, Benim Medical Centre, Bigham Medical Centre, Dr Jude’s Practice Picton, GP Practice Riverside, Hornspit Medical Centre, Rocky Lane Medical Centre, Sandringham Medical Centre, Stopgate Lane Medical Centre, Walton Village Medical Centre and Yew Tree Medical Centre.

Duties of the post-holder
- 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 (e.g. use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services
- 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)
- develop relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the multi-disciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Experience:

• pharmacy technician 1 year (preferred)

Work remotely:

• No

Liverpool First PCN recommends submitting your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close posts at any time once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

Informal visits can be arranged to meet with the pharmacy lead, Dr A Razvi

Contact: Daniel Westhead, Network Manager, 07479303322.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Salary: Up to £30,816.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Free flu jabs
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Transport links

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Liverpool, Merseyside: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• Are you registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)?
• Do you have experience of working under appropriate supervision to ensure safe, effective and efficient use of medicines?
• Have you completed the CPPE Pathway, or, alternatively, are you prepared to enrol onto the CPPE Pathway as required of this role?

Experience:

• Pharmacy Technician: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 314210758
Expected start date: 10/07/2023