Job summary
We are recruiting a Prescribing Technician to join our successful, innovative and happy practice. The post holder will be primarily responsible for the delivery of a patient-centred medication management service.

Main duties of the job

• Ensure the provision of high quality, customer focused services to support the practice and meet service demands.
• Ensure health and safety requirements are met and that the Practice complies with the Health & safety at Work legislation, carrying out a systematic program of risk assessments
• Ensure infection control policies are adhered to
• Manage data collection to support data requirements and claims

About us
The current list size of Danetre Medical Practice is approximately 12,800. Any increase over the last ten years has been due mainly to; natural change (more births than deaths); building development within Daventry itself and more recently migration from the rest of the UK and overseas. The boundaries of the Practice show we are large in terms of geographical size, with the majority of the land classified as rural.

The practice itself is located in close proximity to Daventry Town centre in a modern building adjoining Danetre Hospital (a community hospital which opened in September 2006) offering a wide range of services and delivering a high standard of care. Also attached to the Practice operating independently is Boots Chemist.

Currently the practice works with 5 x GP partners, 1 x Managing Partner, 6 x salaried GPs, 3 x Practitioners, 3 x Clinical Pharmacists and over 250Hrs of Clinical nursing support.

Job responsibilities

• To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
• Take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple long term conditions (in particular COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP - Stop Over Medication Programme).
• Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines while helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients and help in tackling inequalities.
• Provide leadership on person centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, while contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
• Through structured medication reviews support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
• Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacists across networks and the wider health system.
• Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties) and anticoagulation.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating
• Adhere to quality governance systems, processes across the Practice and its activities; managing data collection to support data requirements/claims; ensuring information governance standards are implemented and maintained
• Ensure health and safety requirements are met
• Attend training courses identified as essential or beneficial to the role and take responsibility for identifying own learning needs
• Ensure all significant events are reported and discussed as appropriate and facilitate a full understanding of clinical governance requirements within the practice

Qualifications
Essential

• You will be a Qualified Pharmacy Technician with NVQ 3 or BTech in Pharmaceutical Science and registered with the GPhC.
• Applicants with the above qualifications who lack experience will be considered
• Computer literate with MS office processing skills
• Knowledge of changing NHS and Social Care responsibilities
• Awareness of diversity and equality and ability to deal with personal details in a confidential manner
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills with the ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Previous experience of working in Social Care in medication management, but not essential

Desirable

• Pro-active and self-motivating
• Resilient
• Able to work with minimal direction
• Trustworthy and dependable
• Determination to ensure that policies and agreed actions are implemented
• Hard working, reliable and resourceful

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).