Halo PCN is recruiting for a pharmacy technician to be based at Harvey House Surgery, in St Albans, but with regular travel across the local primary care network (PCN) practices.
Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice is part of an exciting programme of transformation, to develop a new model of care which addresses our ambition to deliver person-centred, coordinated care across the district. Pharmacy technicians play an important role in this: working under supervision to ensure effective and efficient use of medicines, and complementing clinical pharmacists, community pharmacists and other members of the PCN multi-disciplinary team.
The purpose of the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost-effective best practice in prescribing, to improve the quality of patient care.
The post holder will:
- help patients to get the best from their medicines, by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols.
- improve repeat prescribing processes in general practice, including the promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, in order to minimise clinical risk and to reduce wasted medicines.
- be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines-optimisation, throughout the practice teams, and promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments. This will involve assisting the PCN in achieving national requirements, NICE implementation and utilisation of medicines optimisation initiatives.
For full details of the role's duties and responsibilities, please see the attached job specification.