Full Time Pharmacy Technician Required in Sleaford

As a Pharmacy Technician, you will play a crucial role in supporting the Clinical Pharmacy team and Clinicians by providing both technical and administrative assistance. Your responsibilities will include facilitating medication changes under the supervision of the Clinical Pharmacist and conducting audits to ensure patient safety in medication prescribing. You will share audit findings with the clinical team to promote best practices.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Medication Management: Process repeat medication requests, including converting acute requests to repeat prescriptions and adjusting medication quantities as needed.
• Patient Interaction: Assist with the Pharmacy team’s telephone clinic to address patient medication queries.
• Prescription Issuance: Issue prescriptions following agreed clinical protocols and within your competency level.
• Medicines Reconciliation: Ensure accurate medication records post-discharge and during care transfers.
• Record Keeping: Maintain accurate patient medication records on the practice’s clinical computer system, documenting advice given and actions taken.
• Interdepartmental Coordination: Liaise with secondary and primary care colleagues to ensure medication continuity following care transfers.
• Policy Adherence: Monitor practice adherence to the repeat prescribing policy.
• Data Analysis: Assist the Pharmacist with data analysis of prescribing behaviours in line with NICE guidance and local clinical commissioning directives.
• Communication: Support the Prescribing team by sharing medication guidance and establishing effective communication with both the Dispensing team and Clinical staff.
• Audit Development: Assist in the development and review of medication audits.
• Chronic Disease Support: Help patients with chronic diseases make lifestyle changes to manage their conditions.
• Project Work: Engage in project work, prescribing initiatives, and clinical research under the Clinical Pharmacist’s support.
• Medication Queries: Act as a point of contact for medication queries from patients, clinicians, nursing teams, secondary care, and community pharmacists.

Communication

• Patient Interaction: Use sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatments.
• Effective Communication: Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognizing the need for alternative communication methods based on different levels of understanding and cultural backgrounds.
• Team Collaboration: Maintain effective communication within the practice team and with external stakeholders.

Delivering Quality Service

• Professional Standards: Recognize and work within your competence and the professional code of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Record Keeping: Produce accurate and complete records of patient consultations, consistent with legislation, policies, and procedures.
• Quality Management: Prioritize, organize, and manage your workload to promote quality care.
• Policy Implementation: Collaborate with clinical teams to improve healthcare quality, responding to local and national policies and initiatives as needed.

Leadership and Personal Development

• Continuous Learning: Take responsibility for your learning and performance, participate in clinical supervision, and act as a positive role model.
• Promote Learning: Encourage the workplace as a learning environment and support others in their development.
• Innovation: Critically evaluate and review relevant innovations and developments in your work area.

Team Working

• Role Clarity: Understand your role and scope, and identify how it may develop over time.
• Team Support: Work as an effective team member, supporting others and exploring new ways of working.
• Referral Mechanisms: Create clear referral mechanisms to meet patient needs.

Risk Management

• Risk Assessment: Manage and assess risks within your responsibility area to protect staff and patients.
• Health & Safety Compliance: Ensure work areas are safe and conform to health, safety, and security legislation and guidelines.
• Infection Control: Apply infection control measures according to local and national guidelines.

Learning and Development

• Knowledge Sharing: Disseminate learning and information to team members to share good practices and inform about current and future developments.
• Educational Role: Provide education to patients, carers, families, and colleagues in a learning-friendly environment.

Equality and Diversity

• Promote Diversity: Identify patterns of discrimination and take action to promote equality and diversity.
• Support Marginalized Groups: Assist patients from marginalized groups in accessing quality care.