Senior Pharmacy Technician - Primary Care Network and Acute Trust

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Pharmacy Technician to join our Integrated Pharmacy workforce providing a service Brighter Birkenhead PCN.

This PCN is a group of 6 GP practices working together to provide joined up services to support their patients to live happier, healthier lives. You will join an experienced and dynamic team that includes GPs, Nurses, Health & Wellbeing Coaches, Care Coordinators, Social Prescribers & Physiotherapists to provide clinical pharmacy services to our local population.

We have embraced collaboration to achieve a system wide overview of the patients’ medicines journey. This helps you identify how processes can be improved when patients move between care settings and become part of the system wide pharmacy family. You will be supported to complete the CPPE pathway.

Role

The role will support the PCN clinical pharmacists to ensure the delivery of safe, effective systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes:

• Be responsible for the development of a better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and promote good practice in line with clinical and operational guidelines.
• Perform medicines reconciliation for patients discharged from hospital including counselling on medicines use and referral to other clinicians as necessary.
• Communicate with a wide range of healthcare professionals within the trusts, practices and other services such as care home staff.
• Build strong relationships with community pharmacy colleague.
• Support patients with their medication and provide advice regarding benefits, risks and side effects.
• Support improvements in patient care and the development of integrated pathways across primary and secondary care.
  
  

As part of the WUTH Integrated Pharmacy Service that supports a number of PCNs within Wirral, this role is based within Brighter Birkenhead PCN but may on occasion also support our other PCNs as required by service need. There are opportunities to work with colleagues from the other PCN teams in Wirral as well as having access to the Acute Trust specialists which helps you develop a better understand of the full patient journey.

Benefits

We strive to provide the best possible care for patients whilst creating a safe, caring environment for our staff. Benefits of joining our team:

• Being part of a successful, friendly, supportive team.
• Wrap around support from the wider pharmacy team.
• Opportunity to develop a holistic perspective to support our ‘healthcare without boundaries’ approach.
  
  

Employment is via Wirral University Teaching Hospital which brings with it all the benefits of working for an NHS organisation. Staff are supported to develop, take opportunities to learn and to reach their potential.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lucy Reid Job title: Associate Director of Pharmacy Email address: Lucy.reid2@nhs.net