Pharmacy Technician in Bromborough

The following are the core responsibilities of the Pharmacy Technician in delivering safe, effective and high-quality medicines management services within the practice:

• Undertake medicines reconciliation following hospital discharge, care transfers and other transitions of care, ensuring prescribing records are accurate, complete and up to date.
• Prepare information and support clinicians undertaking Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs), identifying patients who may benefit from medicines optimisation interventions.
• Support medicines optimisation activities to improve patient outcomes, reduce medicines waste and promote safe, evidence-based prescribing.
• Monitor and manage high-risk medicines in accordance with practice protocols and national guidance, ensuring appropriate blood tests, reviews and monitoring requirements are completed.
• Provide medicines-related support to care home residents and care home staff, including medication reviews, medicines reconciliation and optimisation activities.
• Undertake prescribing, medicines safety and clinical audits, analysing findings and supporting implementation of recommendations to improve patient safety and prescribing quality.
• Participate in medicines safety initiatives and quality improvement projects, identifying opportunities to reduce risk and improve medicines-related outcomes.
• Promote adherence to local and national formularies and prescribing guidance, supporting cost-effective prescribing and best use of NHS resources.
• Identify patients who may be experiencing problematic poly-pharmacy and support clinicians in reviewing medicines to minimise unnecessary treatment burden and improve outcomes.
• Assist clinicians with deprescribing initiatives, ensuring medication changes are implemented safely and appropriately with suitable patient follow-up.
• Investigate prescribing discrepancies, medication queries and medicines-related incidents, taking appropriate action and escalating concerns when required.
• Monitor patient compliance and adherence to medication regimens, providing support and signposting where barriers to effective medicines use are identified.
• Escalate medicines-related risks, near misses, safeguarding concerns and patient safety issues through the appropriate governance and reporting processes.
• Support the implementation of national prescribing policies, medicines optimisation programmes and enhanced service requirements.
• Work collaboratively with GPs, Clinical Pharmacists, nurses, care coordinators, reception teams, community pharmacies, care homes and secondary care providers to ensure continuity of care.
• Support repeat prescribing systems, electronic prescribing processes and effective medicines management procedures to ensure safe and efficient service delivery.
• Provide medicines-related advice and respond to prescription queries from patients and members of the multidisciplinary team within the limits of competence and role.
• Act as a mentor and role model for trainee care coordinators and other team members as appropriate.
• Lead or support small-scale quality improvement, audit and service development projects relating to medicines optimisation and patient safety.
• Maintain and develop specialist knowledge in areas of clinical interest, medicines optimisation and prescribing quality to support evolving service requirements.
• Contribute to clinical governance activities, incident reviews, significant event analyses and learning from errors to improve patient care.
• Participate in mandatory training, appraisal processes and continuing professional development activities, always maintaining professional registration requirements.
• Support public health initiatives, vaccination programmes and population health management work where appropriate.
• Maintain accurate clinical records and ensure all activities are documented in accordance with practice policies, professional standards and information governance requirements.