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Location
Horley, Surrey | United Kingdom
Job description
Primary duties and areas of responsibility: The Pharmacy technicians core responsibilities will cover clinical, and technical and administrative categories. Clinical The Pharmacy technician will: Undertake remote supporting role to ensure effective medicine reconciliation of clinical documentation Support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings. Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally. Technical and Administrative: The Pharmacy Technician will: Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and support the Practice multi-disciplinary team to ensure medicines optimisation processes are being followed. Support medicines reconciliation for patients when they are reviewed and discharged from hospital and community providers Provide technical support for the wCATS (Workflow Care At Scale) Pharmacy service to ensure professional operational standards and excellence in pharmaceutical care and safety are maintained. Promotion of Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering. 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 Services. Work with Practices to support an integrated approach with Medicines Optimisation teams, community pharmacists and hospital pharmacy teams to support an integrated approach to prescribing and medicines optimisations which works towards shared goals. Support General Practice staff and patients regarding prescription and medication queries, and in streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and Clinical Pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests. Support training and development of administrators to support safe, effective and efficient processes involving medicines with a particular focus on repeat prescribing processes. Support the Practices to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and efficient systems for medicines related clinical correspondence; repeat prescribing, medicines optimisations, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes. Ensure that the service is integrated with community and hospital pharmacy to improve patient outcomes. Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP Practices, care homes and other Primary Care settings. Contribute to the delivery of the local medicines optimisation strategy. Professional Development: The post holder will: Be supported in terms of professional development through a structured programme of local education. Peer-support is provided from within the wCATS team. Take responsibility for continual personal and professional development, taking an active part in reviewing and developing the role and responsibilities. Adhere to organisational policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, equality, diversity and inclusion training and health and safety. Other: An enhanced DBS check will be carried out for successful candidates. The post-holder will develop and maintain effective relationships with all professionals. Work as part of the healthcare team to seek feedback and continually improve the service. The post-holder may be required to work across the named Practices, improved access service hubs and meetings across the patch. The post may involve evening and weekend shifts supporting the improved access hubs. Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner. All Pharmacy Technicians must work within their competencies and have professional indemnity
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Salary
£26.75k - £33.26k per annum
