Pharmacy Technician

The East Cornwall Primary Care network has an exciting new vacancy for a Pharmacy Technician to join our networks innovative and expanding pharmacy team. This is an exciting opportunity to provide key Pharmacy Technician expertise to GP practices within the locality. As a Technician working across one or a number of East Cornwall practices you will manage your own workload to provide a broad range of services to fully utilise the expertise a pharmacy technician can bring to the primary care team.

This would include seeing patients for medication queries, assisting with prescribing related issues, enhancing prescription processes within the primary care team and deliver high quality improvement/patient safety interventions via the use of clinical audit. You will help support the East PCN with core medicine optimisation activities and ensure the safe and effective use of medicines across East Cornwall.

Working with us you will benefit from:

• Opportunities for flexible working
• A clear career framework with pathways for promotion and career development.
• 6 weeks pro rata holiday entitlement (including bank holidays), with the ability to 'buy and sell' annual leave.
• Being part of a local, agile and innovative team.
• Access to a great support network within a multi-professional team.
• Access to a company pension scheme, sickness, maternity and paternity pay.

The post holder will deliver core pharmacy technician duties to our practices within the East Cornwall Primary Care Network as one of the multidisciplinary clinical team. Duties will include dealing with prescription queries, synchronisation of repeat medications, processing discharge summaries clinic letters, undertaking clinical audits and promoting best prescribing practice as part of patient centred care within the surgeries where they are based.

The post holder will work as part of a growing team of pharmacy technicians across the practices in East Cornwall to deliver health and medicines optimisation interventions at a neighbourhood population level. Working arrangements may be in person in practice or via remote assistance as part of a virtual team of clinicians.

East Cornwall Primary Care Network

The East Cornwall locality General Practices have formed a provider company Kernow Health East Ltd which will operate the East Cornwall Primary Care Network (PCN). The neighbourhoods you will be recruited to include the Saltash Practices (Saltash Health Centre and Port View), the Rame Peninsula (Rame Group Practice), St Germans (Quay Lane Surgery), Liskeard (Oaktree and Rosedean) and Looe (Old Bridge Surgery).

You will be based across the localitys GP practices providing clinical pharmacy support as part of the practice clinical teams, working either in practice or remotely as part of a clinical hub.

JOB PURPOSE

• The post holder will deliver core pharmacy technician duties to our practices within the East Cornwall Primary Care Network as one of the multidisciplinary clinical team. Duties will include dealing with prescription queries, synchronisation of repeat medications, processing discharge summaries/clinic letters, undertaking clinical audits and promoting best prescribing practice as part of patient centred care within the surgeries where they are based.

The post holder will work as part of a growing team of pharmacy technicians across the practices in East Cornwall to deliver health and medicines optimisation interventions at a neighbourhood population level. Working arrangements may be in person in practice or via remote assistance as part of a virtual team of clinicians.

KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Identify patients requiring medication review and conduct appropriate medication review clinics or home visits if required by the organisation/practices and liaise with carers, Community Health teams or social care staff in order to optimise drug therapy, reduce polypharmacy and minimise unnecessary waste, communicating directly with patients as necessary.

• Provide medicines use advice and support to GP practice staff, practice registered patients, and the wider practice team…