Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - Primary Care

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• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
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• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

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Job overview

Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - Primary Care (Wansbeck Primary Care Network)

Our pharmacy technicians undertake patient-facing clinical roles, using their skills as part of a multidisciplinary team to support patients wherever they are across primary and secondary care (hospital, home or care home).

Our team offer you a unique clinical, patient-facing role that allows pharmacy technicians to develop or maintain skills within primary care. Full access to acute trust teams and resources will help to enable system wide approach to patient care, and designed around you to make the most of your skill set.

Main duties of the job

This clinical patient-facing role will involve medicines optimisation stewardship, enhancing medicines support for care homes and their residents, supporting patients at transitions of care and providing medicines management support and leadership across the network.

You may already be a pharmacy technician working in general practice or an experienced pharmacy technician ready to take the next step in your career.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, as well as our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.

We are one of the best performing NHS organisations in England, with a focus on staff experience as well as the experience of patients.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

• Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
• Carry out medicines optimisation tasks and utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
• Support medicines reconciliation for patients at transitions of care, communicating effectively with community pharmacy and secondary care colleagues.
• Contribute to effective systems for medication review for patients on repeat medication. This includes support for clinical pharmacists in delivering structured medication reviews (SMR) to help reduce medicines-related harm.
• Provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information and help in tackling local health inequalities.
• Manage shared care protocols to local arrangements, participate in medication audits and carry out safety searches to ensure appropriate monitoring for patients receiving high-risk medication.
• Support the PCN in implementing efficient ordering and return processes and reducing medication wastage, including Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD).
• Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the multidisciplinary team to support integration across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and mental health.
• Support the implantation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.
• Where required, support the PCN to deliver the Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service (DES).

Person specification

Qualifications

• • BTEC in pharmaceutical science or NVQ Level 3 supported by appropriate underpinning knowledge e.g. BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences, NPA or equivalent qualification.
• • Regional Qualification or equivalent for Medicines Management for Pharmacy Technicians. (If not already held there will be an expectation to achieve this when a training opportunity becomes available).
• • Registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• • Evidence of relevant specialist continuing professional development.
• • To have successfully completed an appropriate accredited technician checking qualification e.g. Regional Scheme, Buttercups. Regional Qualification for Medicines Management for Pharmacy Technicians (if not already held there will be an expectation to achieve this when a training opportunity becomes available).
• • A1 or equivalent NVQ assessor qualification (if not already held there will be an expectation to achieve this when a training opportunity becomes available).
• • IT skills to include pharmacy systems, Microsoft word and Excel.
• • Relevant evidence of CPD demonstrating that their knowledge and training are current and show evidence of revalidation if appropriate.
• • The above qualifications will ensure the post holder has the required skills for the role and has the specialist training and experience to degree or equivalent level.

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

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Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.