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Employer & Partnership Engagement Webinar

Pre Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technician (PTPT)

Integrated Training

@NHS_HealthEdEng #pharmacyintegration @HEE_SouthPharm @PWD_South

Welcome and Introductions• Nick Haddington – HEE Pharmacy Dean (South)

• Marc Miell – HEE Head of School (Pharmacy South)

• Ellen Williams – Director of Regional Pharmacy Training (PWDS)

• Mary Carter – Regional Facilitator (South) PTPT Integrated Training

Pilot

• Kerry Street – Regional Workstream Development Lead - Pharmacy

Integration

• Overview of the project & role of pharmacy technician

• Provide details of eligibility for funding

• Advice on elements of the training programme including

placements & required supervision

• Application process

• Answer questions related to the project

Purpose of Webinar


GP Pharmacy Technician Role• Manage patient medication requests and issues

• Manage medication related queries

• Medication switching

• Medicines Reconciliation (discharge summaries & clinic letters)

• Level 1 & 2 medication review

• Clinical Prioritisation of patients and tasks

Opportunity for all• Be part of a project to grow a workforce proving to be an asset across

all healthcare sectors – GP, community, hospital, care homes, prisons,

IUC

• Take advantage of building skills to meet the aspiration of the Long-

Term Plan & contracts (network DES, CPCF)

• Opportunity to shape the PCN pharmacy workforce

• Invest in current staff or bring in new staff via apprenticeship route

• Although supernumerary, they will support service delivery

Linking to the Pharmacy Workforce Vision• “Each system quantifies its projected pharmacy workforce requirements

across all sectors, and trains the necessary workforce in a collaborative

approach, using cross-sectoral/rotational trainee positions”

• Workforce better prepared to deliver enhanced integrated healthcare system

services (integrated responsibility)

• Improved understanding of the transfer of care issues

• Enhanced relationship between partners

• Develop pharmacy technicians with a broader skill set


PTPT Integrated Training Pilot

• We will benefit from learning taken from current national

HEE pilot

• A cohort of 46 PTPTs training across secondary care or

mental health, community and GP/PCNs or care homes

• Cohort started in February 2020


How Much Funding is Available?

• £32,000 per PTPT over the 2-year apprenticeship training period

• Funding can be used to support salary, educational supervision or

other elements to support the trainee to successfully complete the

apprenticeship

• The apprentice can be someone new to your team or an existing team

member to upskill (subject to them meeting course entry criteria)


Getting Involved• Form an employer partnership which must include GP/PCN & a registered

pharmacy (which can be hospital and/or community pharmacy).

• Be prepared to reciprocate placements for other PTPTs

• Provide educational & practice supervision within your partnership from a

pharmacy professional registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council

(GPhC). This can be a pharmacy technician and/or pharmacist.

• Consider engaging with key pharmacy leads to support a system-wide bid for

funding

• The HEE team can support you with signposting to partners


PTPT RecruitmentAll applicants for the post must meet the following criteria:

• Qualification-bearing course: Four GCSEs at Grade A*-C/9-4 including Mathematics,

English Language, Science and one other subject

• Non-qualification bearing course: Undertake pre-screening criteria in relation to:

health and character, current ability & current level of maths, English & science

knowledge

• 16 years of age or older

• Appropriate DBS check and references as per the employing organisations HR policies


PTPT Recruitment (contd.)• Full-time contract

• Part-time considered on a case by case basis (at least 30 hrs/week to complete training

in 24 months)

• Successful bids will be expected to pay PTPTs as per NHS Agenda for Change band 4

(adjusted trainee rate) as detail in annex 21

(https://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook/annex-21-to-25/annex-21-arrangements-

for-pay-and-banding-of-trainees). This is to ensure standardisation across all

employers. This equates to (before any employer on-costs):

• Year 1 - £16,909 (this is 70% of band 4 spine point 17)

• Year 2 - £18,117 (this is 75% of band 4 spine point 17)

https://www.nhsemployers.org/pay-pensions-and-reward/agenda-for-change/pay-scales

https://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook/annex-21-to-25/annex-21-arrangements-for-pay-and-banding-of-trainees

https://www.nhsemployers.org/pay-pensions-and-reward/agenda-for-change/pay-scales

Education Provision• Apprenticeship therefore course fees are funded through the levy:

• Levy payers will get 100% course fees paid

• Non levy-payers will get 95% course fees paid, 5% = approx. £400 for the

entire 2-year programme. HEE can advise on possibility of levy transfer.

• HEE Pharmacy South will support identification of a GPhC accredited training

provider(s) for the delivery of the apprenticeship. This will be one of the providers

that has been identified as part of the national procurement process.

• Employers need to facilitate the completion of the education provision


PlacementsTraining programme must:

• meet the requirements of the GPhC Initial Education Training Standards

• be overseen by an Educational Supervisor

• have a work-based practice/clinical supervisor associated with each rotation

• provide good experiential learning opportunities

• meet the HEE quality framework

https://www.pharmacyregulation.org/sites/default/files/standards_for_the_initial_education_and_training_of_pharmacy_technicians_october_2017.pdf

https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/quality



Placement Requirements

• The PTPT will rotate through each sector at least once during each year

during the 24-month training programme

• Each rotation must be a minimum of 12 weeks (60 days) each year

• Placements can be ‘blocks’ or split weeks as agreed between the employer

partnerships





Educational Supervisor

• Partnerships must have a named registered pharmacy professional to act as

an educational supervisor

• It is expected that the PTPT will meet their educational supervisor at least

once a month to review progress and provide support of the PTPT


Practice/Clinical Supervisors• All placements must have a named registered professional to act as a

practice/clinical supervisor

• Work-based experience must be under the supervision, direction or guidance

of a pharmacist or pharmacy technician to whom they are directly accountable

for a minimum of 14 hours per week.

• Practice/clinical supervisors will support PTPTs to identify opportunities for

learning in the workplace and provide supervision of PTPTs on a day-to-day

basis, identifying PTPTs requiring additional support


Placement Considerations

• Placement timings

• Number of sites

• Multidisciplinary working

• Activities/Tasks


Bids: Minimum Application Criteria

• Employer partnership identified with lead employer nominated & at

least one other partner (must include GP/PCN & registered pharmacy)

• Access to a registered pharmacy premises

• Educational supervision capacity identified for 24-month period

• Practice/clinical supervision capacity identified for 24-month period

• Rationale for training individual clearly stated within supporting

information

• Placement/rotations including durations & locations clearly identified

Timeline

•Initial stakeholder engagement & facilitate formation of partnershipsAugust 2020

•Employer partnerships submit applications for funding to [email protected] using application template.

1st - 23rd September 2020

•Evaluation of applications by HEE panelw/c 28th September 2020

•Successful applicants informedw/c 12th October 2020

•Programme initiation meeting to provide support with initial recruitment e.g. advert, JD, apprenticeship funding guidance

w/c 19th October 2020

•Recruitment of traineesOctober/November 2020

•Trainees begin employment, local induction etcJanuary/February 2021

•Trainees start apprenticeshipFebruary 2021

HEE/PWDS Support

• Support to facilitate partnerships & advise on apprenticeship standards/funding

arrangements

• Support from a Regional Programme Facilitator for the 2 year training period

• Email: [email protected]

• Webpage: https://wessex.hee.nhs.uk/wider-workforce/pharmacy-

south/pharmacy-technicians/


mailto:[email protected]

https://wessex.hee.nhs.uk/wider-workforce/pharmacy-south/pharmacy-technicians/

Next Steps

1. Form partnership with a registered pharmacy (hospital and/or community)

2. Consider the number of PTPTs you have capacity to host, support and

supervise.

3. E-mail expression of interest to HEE [email protected] to start the

application



Keep in Touch

• If you have a question after today, please contact

[email protected]

• Join the conversation @NHS_HealthEdEng and @PWDS_South



https://twitter.com/NHS_HealthEdEng

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