Pharmacy Technician

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Clinical

Undertaking

patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use,

through shared decision-making conversations with patients.

Carrying

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.

Supporting

• medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and
• synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking
• with local community pharmacists, and referring to the pharmacist for
• structured medication reviews.

Providing

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.

Taking

a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising

with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients.

Supporting

initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic

prescribing.

Audits

Provide assistance and support with audits

undertaken by the Practice Managers, Partners, Salaried GPs, GP Registrars,

Medical Students and the wider Practice Team.

Technical and

Administrative

• Working
• with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines
• optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return processes
• and reducing wastage.

Providing

training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines,

including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).

Developing

• 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.
• Supervising and line managing practice prescribing team in sorting and streaming general prescription
• requests, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more
• clinically complex requests.

Support

implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP

Practice, care homes and other primary care settings.

Supporting

Quality Improvement measures and participation in Prescribing Quality Scheme,

supporting Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services.

Additional tasks

Other duties as per Partners instructions as

dictated by changes in the nature of the Whitstable Medical Practice.