Pharmacy Technician

Working within your clinical and professional boundaries, you will work alongside the Durham Coast PCN Clinical Pharmacists to support clinical teams in all aspects of prescribing and medicines safety.

The purpose of this role is to promote and support improvements to maximise safe and best practice in prescribing and improve the quality of patient care. The Pharmacy Technician will be a point of contact for patients regarding their prescriptions. The post holder will help patients get the best from their medicines through effective medicines reconciliation after discharge and on other transfers of care, identification of patients potentially suitable for repeat dispensing, providing assistance in the monitoring of high-risk and high-cost drugs and handling of prescription queries within the areas of competence.

This will also involve work to deliver key medicines optimisation outcomes against the ICB's Prescribing Outcomes Scheme. Contribute to quality improvement and clinical audit, as well as supporting aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework, medicines safety and antibiotic stewardship. You will also be required to contribute towards practice financial stability through medicines optimisation and related targets in QOF.

The role will include training and development of practice administrative staff that process repeat prescriptions to support improved co-ordination and effective pharmacy administration within general practice.

Main duties of the job

- Support practice clinical pharmacists and practice clinical teams to provide a safe and effective repeat prescribing service.

- Comply with legal and professional requirements and with safe systems of work for re-authorising repeat prescriptions.

- Co-ordinate medication review appointments and any changes of medication as advised by the clinical team.

- Liaise with pharmacies on the supply of prescribed drugs, alert clinicians of any supply issues and forward recommendations of alternatives.

- Medicines reconciliation post discharge and on other transfers of care.

- Bring queries to clinical team to include under or over usage.

- Day to day handling of prescription queries within area of own competence.

- Use and maintain information reporting systems and databases relevant to the position including incident reporting, prescribing data and patient outcomes.

- Handle function specific information, which may be sensitive, complex or confidential and appropriately recording, transferring and/or coordinating such information in accordance with the GDPR; Caldecott Guidelines and the Confidentiality Code of Conduct.

- Utilise GP practice clinical systems to conduct prescribing audits.

- Support the clinical pharmacists and practices with the work required under County Durham ICBs Medicines Management Local Incentive Scheme.

We are looking to recruit an additional Pharmacy Technician to join our team at Durham Coast Primary Care Network which is formed of four member practices; East Durham Medical Group, Bevan Medical Group, Southdene Medical Centre and Wingate Medical Centre, together representing a population of over 33,000 patients.