Job Description

Oakham Medical Practice and Market Overton and Somerby surgeries have the exciting opportunity to recruit a Practice Pharmacy Technician.

Full-time (37) hours. Salary

commensurate with experience.

Oakham Medical Practice is based in a thriving market town in the beautiful county of Rutland. Market Overton is a picturesque village in the North of Rutland with a branch surgery in the village of Somerby just across the border in Leicestershire. The Practices serve 20000 patients as well as providing medical cover for the local public school in Oakham.

We are part of Rutland Health PCN and work collaboratively and effectively with our local partners in general practice, the community and social care.

We are a dynamic, creative and forward thinking Partner led team, training practice for GPST1-GPST3s and have supported numerous ACPs and Pharmacists throughout their training. This new role will be integral to our medicines management team and involve working to provide a safe medication service as well as innovatively managing our patients with long term conditions as part of our multi-disciplinary team.

Rutland is consistently voted in the top 3 best places to live in the UK. Local leisure pursuits are plentiful and schooling is highly regarded in both the local state and private sector.

Job Summary

To support the Practice Multidisciplinary Team to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes to increase patient safety and cost-effective prescribing.

Responsibilities

Reconcile medicines from clinical letters and following discharge from hospitals, identifying and rectifying any changes.

Reauthorise repeat prescribing by reviewing patient requests, medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those in need of a review.

Support Medicines Management and Dispensing teams in sorting and answering relevant medication related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams, hospitals, District Nurses and community Pharmacies, to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.

Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.

Provide advice and information to support improved medicines compliance and medicines waste reduction, referring to the Senior Lead Pharmacist, as required.

Manage and deal with multiple complex problem-solving issues involving all aspects of medicine management and quality concurrently, using own knowledge and skills within polices and guidance, being aware of own limitations and referring to Senior Lead Pharmacist when appropriate.

Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs and ICB, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.

Responsible for all actions and decisions, as a registered technician in accordance with the Code of Ethics of the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

Work with the Team to ensure the Practice is compliant with CQC standards.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

Company pension On-site parking
Schedule:

Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person