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Care at Home Pharmacy (CAP) Technician Service provides an innovative, sustainable model of service which helps achieve the NHS Ayrshire & Arran Vision ‘To meet the pharmaceutical care needs of our population by transforming what we do.’ Collaborative working within the Ayrshire ‘Pharmacy Family’ (community, hospital, primary care), and social care partners is crucial to achieve our purpose ‘To work together to achieve the best pharmaceutical care possible for everyone in Ayrshire and Arran’.
Ayrshire population projections indicate increasing ageing populations with improved life expectancy and increasing number of complex conditions. As extended family support networks move away, care to ensure people live well at home, for as long as possible, rather than a care home or hospital will fall to the Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP). Collaborative working with patient, carer, health, social and third sector professionals, is crucial to deliver integrated care, in line with NHS Scotland’s 20:20 Vision.
The CAP Technician Service in South Ayrshire exemplifies partnership working between Social Work and Primary Care Pharmacy teams, delivering patient-centred, pharmaceutical care, in the community. Technicians work with elderly and/or vulnerable people, identified by health or social care professionals as requiring help with medication issues. The technician visits patients at home, reviews medicine compliance and concordance, with onward referral to other services where required.
Your role will be to work with elderly residents within the South H&SCP area who have been identified by a health or social care professional as requiring help with a medication related problem. The patients may have recently been discharged from hospital, but may also relate to those living at home and who have been identified as having difficulty with their medicines. You will be managed by the Community Pharmacy Advisor and linked to social services and the prescribing support teams to allow you to support patients with their medicines across the H&SCP area.
Your main responsibilities will include: medicines reconciliation involving acute, GP and Community Pharmacy as appropriate; assessing the ability of patients to manage medicines independently; arranging appropriate support aids and working with carers to enable people to manage their medicines independently, preventing admission to care home or hospital; deliver medicine management training sessions for care at home staff; identify the need for and refer appropriate patients to a GP based pharmacist for a medication or polypharmacy review if required; deliver cost efficiencies to social care through reduced care packages; deliver prescribing cost efficiencies through reduction in inappropriate prescribing of medicines; refer to appropriate social care, health care or third party services for on-going patient support.
You will have good understanding of medicines, IT and communication skills to work as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team. You will be responsible for planning, coordination, managing and assessment of functions within this specialist area in conjunction with other health or social care professionals, to ensure work is timely accurate and appropriate.
You will be a Pharmacy Technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council, and will also have leadership and project management skills to ensure the successful delivery of the project outcomes.
Car driver / owner is essential.
Hours of work are 37.5. In future, in accordance with AfC Terms and conditions, you may be required to work over 7 days and/or an extended working day.
The two posts are Fixed Term/Secondment opportunities for 12 months.
For further information please contact Alexandra McMillan:
Email: alexandra.mcmillan@aapct.scot.nhs.uk
Phone: 07816 362485