PCN Advanced Pharmacy Technician

We are looking for a Pharmacy Technician to join our developing multidisciplinary team across Rockingham Forest Primary Care Network (PCN). The Candidate will be primarily located at the Corby site, but occasional travel to Headlands and Oundle may be necessary. The role of pharmacy within General Practice is part of an existing programme of transformation which is underpinned by the NHS Long Term Plan. This innovative role offers the successful candidate the opportunity to support and work within the Lakeside Healthcare Pharmacy Team to ensure safe and effective use of medicines for its patients whilst working in line with evolving requirements of PCNs. Please note: this role is site based and the ability to travel to different sites within the PCN is essentialMain duties of the job This is an innovative role to work within the Lakeside Healthcare Pharmacy team to ensure safe and effective use of medicines for patients within Lakeside Healthcare.

• Medicine reconciliation from clinic letters.
• Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and ensuring prescribing in practice is in line with ICB Formulary.
• Medication reviews.
• Support Clinical Pharmacists with general prescription requests and medication queries to allow them to review the more clinically complex requests.
• Demonstrates execution of activities including clinical audits, medicines reconciliation, treatment monitoring and medication reviews to ensure safer, cost effective prescribing.
• Participate in practice meetings to improve engagement of the role of pharmacy technician within the Lakeside Pharmacy model and to promote issues relevant to prescribing e.g. antimicrobial stewardship and improving quality of prescribing.
• Undertake training and development, to ensure the required knowledge and skills for practice-based work.
• Demonstrates working to complete effective and safe management of medicines related processes to achieve QOF, DES and IIF targets.
  
  LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest true partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire.
Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do. We strive to ensure we connect and respond to all needs with compassion, care and respect to improve the lives and wellbeing of the communities we serve. Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service. About the Practice/Department/Team Working within the Rockingham Forest Primary Care Network (PCN) you will be part of a forward-thinking Primary Care Network comprising of three surgeries across Corby, Kettering and Oundle. We recognise the value that these roles will bring to our practices and our patients, and we look forward to growing our PCN team. The three surgeries are all well-established with a patient list size of over 78,000 which is forever growing.