Practice Pharmacy Technician – Ashgrove Medical Group
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Practice Pharmacy Technician, Pontypridd
Contact phone: 01443 404444
Organisation: Ashgrove Medical Group
Website: ashgrovesurgery.com
Location: Pontypridd
Post code: CF37 2DR
Salary: £26,000 - £31,500 dependent on experience
Ashgrove Medical Group is an established multi-professional training practice working across two sites, with a patient population of circa 20,000 patients. Ashgrove Medical Group provides long-term stability and unique opportunities for pharmacy technicians to develop their skills for the future.
The practice boasts an excellent multi-professional team including 7 GP Partners, 3 pharmacists, 1 Pharmacy Technician, 5 salaried GPs, 1 Physician Associate and an enhanced nursing team, complimented by a supportive reception and administration team.
With a strong emphasis on education & training, the practice hosts training for Independent Prescribing, Foundation Pharmacy Training and pre-registration pharmacy students. The practice is also a high-tiered research centre and also offers Enhanced Services such as Near Patient Testing, Substance Misuse, Anti-Coagulation, Denosumab, Gonadorelins, and Gender Identity treatments, with the pharmacy team leading a majority of these.
The partners are passionate about supporting their team to enjoy a quality of life at work with a healthy work-life balance. Working patterns are designed to allow flexibility and the development of specialist interests and/or a portfolio career.
JOB TITLE: Practice Pharmacy Technician
The purpose of the role is to facilitate improvements to maximise safe, cost- effective best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care. The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practice, including promotion of repeat dispensing, 56 day prescribing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines. In addition, the post holder will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments.
The Surgery
- A balanced multi-professional team
- GP Training practice
- Designated operating theatre and research facility
- High QAIF achieving
- Vision Clinical System, Docman, Online Services
- 20-30 mins to Cardiff
The Benefits
- NHS pension
- Development opportunities & specialist interests supported
- Career progression
- Superb working environment
To arrange an informal visit to the practice or for further information, please contact the Senior Practice Pharmacist, Carly Miller on 01443 404444
To apply, please forward a CV to Carly.Miller@wales.nhs.uk
ASHGROVE MEDICAL GROUP
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title: Practice Pharmacy Technician
Responsible to: Prescribing lead/Practice Manager
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time (can be flexible for the right candidate)
Salary: £26,000 - £31,500 dependent on experience
Purpose
To support the Practice to deliver safe, effective and efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste, prescribing projects and audits. To work closely with the Prescribing Lead, Prescribing clerks, Practice and Community pharmacists to develop strong working relationships and high quality service to maximise patient outcomes.
Responsibilities
• Liaising with local pharmacies and hospitals regarding prescribing queries, to improve prescribing safety, quality and cost effectiveness
• To support the prescribing clerks to oversee the preparation of repeat prescriptions, synchronisation of repeat medication, medication review and repeat dispensing
• Process and update patient medication from hospital discharge and clinic letters
• To facilitate prescribing meetings relating to practice prescribing reports, audits, protocols, targets, budget, education sessions relating to prescribing topics.
• To action and process medication alerts, raising awareness within the practice
• To help plan, develop and support the introduction of new working processes within the practice to optimise the quality of prescribing.
• To oversee patients on shared care drugs, ensuring recalls and protocols in place to ensure safety and appropriate use of medicines and their management
• To support the Practice Based Pharmacists to provide medication reviews, patient information leaflets and cost effectiveness of prescribing.
• Process all recalls relating to medication monitoring deemed necessary by the Practice
• Review practice processes and procedures relating to medication reviews for patients housebound and care homes environments to optimise the quality of prescribing
Other Duties
• To keep professionally up to date to meet the General Pharmaceutical Council standards for continuing professional development and registration.
• To ensure that all information is recorded accurately using computer systems
• To ensure maintenance of accurate patient records and ensure all relevant information is documented in the patient’s medical records in a timely manner.
• Initiating contact with and responding to requests from patients, other team members and associated healthcare professionals
• To help plan, develop and support the introduction of new working processes within the practice to optimise the quality of prescribing
Key Relationships
• To provide support to the practice administrative staff
• The post holder will be required to maintain constructive relationships with all practice staff, and allied healthcare professionals
Communication
• The post holder should recognise the importance of effective communication with team members, patients and carers
• To recognise people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
Confidentiality
• In the performance of the duties outlined in the job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carer’s, practice staff and other healthcare workers.
• Information relating to patient’s, carer’s, colleagues, other healthcare workers or business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data
• Patients entrust the practice to maintain their information remains confidential and respect their privacy and act appropriately
Health and Safety
The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others’ health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health and Safety Policy, the practice Infection Control Policy and published procedures. This includes:-
• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and keeping them free from hazards
• Actively reporting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
• Keeping own work areas and general patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holder’s role
• Undertaking periodic infection control training
• Reporting potential risk identified
• Correct use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Responsible for correct hand hygiene of self and others
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills and processes
Equality and Diversity
The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights
Personal/Professional Development
The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:
• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work
Quality
The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice and will:
• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team’s performance
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients’ needs
• Effectively manage own time workload and resources
Contribution to the implementation of Services
The post holder will
• Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
• Participate in audit where appropriate
