Debenham Group Practice, part of Suffolk Primary Care, have an exciting opportunity for a hardworking, enthusiastic and innovative pharmacy technician to join our primary care network, on a part time basis for 15-20 hours per week. . You will be working across the three locations so will be required to travel between all of the GP practices within our PCN, these include Stowmarket, Ipswich and Woodbridge.
This position is a genuine opportunity to make a real difference in improving the quality and safety of care we provide to our patients.
The main responsibilities of the role include:
- Undertake patient-facing and patient-supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use through shared-decision-making conversations with patients.
- Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews, and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
- Support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients, synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, and linking with local community pharmacists.
- Provide specialist expertise, where competent, to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.
- Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaise with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients.
- Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.
- Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes, and other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking clinical audits (e.g. use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures, and contributing to efficient medicines optimisation.
- Help guide and advise practice care navigation in sorting and streaming general prescription requests to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.
Please refer to the job description attached for further duties and information.