Job summary
Dr Stocks & Partners is seeking a dedicated and detail-orientated Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly and expanding team.
Main duties of the job
You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to improve the quality and safety of care. You will have regular contact with patients helping to reduce the workload of GPs. The role includes development of practice teams to increase effective pharmacy administration within general practice, especially in relation to repeat prescribing processes including promotion of online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.
Core role and responsibilities will cover clinical, technical and administrative categories, working under supervision to ensure effective and efficient use of medicines.
About us
We are a well-established, forward-thinking GP practice with 11 GPs and approximately 18,700 patients, operating across two sites in Little Common and Bexhill Old Town. As a training practice, we are committed to nurturing the next generation of healthcare professionals, offering a supportive and educational environment for GP registrars, medical students, and other healthcare staff.
Our team is dedicated to providing high-quality patient care whilst maintaining a friendly and collaborative working environment. We encourage professional development.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Pharmacy Technician is to assume the following key responsibilities in delivering health services.
- Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
- Conduct medicine optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g., checking inhaler technique), support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. When required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
- Support, as determined by the Practice, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronise medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking with local community pharmacists
- Provide specialist expertise, when competent, to address both the public health and social care needs of patients including lifestyle advice, service information and help in tackling local health inequalities
- Maintain a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaise with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients
- Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing
- Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits
- Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking clinical audits (e.g., use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services
- Contribute to public health campaigns (e.g., COVID-19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care
- Work with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation including implementing efficient ordering and return processes and reducing wastage
- Supervise prescriptions admin team in sorting and streaming general prescription requests so as to allow GPs and the Clinical Pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests
- Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems with a range of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and implementing electronic prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems and timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines
- Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)
- Develop relationships with other Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacists and members of the multi-disciplinary team within the PCN, or wider afield within the locality to support the integration of the pharmacy team across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and mental health
- Support the delivery of QOF, incentive schemes, QIPP and other quality or cost effectiveness initiatives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Pharmacy Technician is to assume the following key responsibilities in delivering health services.
- Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
- Conduct medicine optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g., checking inhaler technique), support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. When required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
- Support, as determined by the Practice, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronise medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking with local community pharmacists
- Provide specialist expertise, when competent, to address both the public health and social care needs of patients including lifestyle advice, service information and help in tackling local health inequalities
- Maintain a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaise with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients
- Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing
- Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits
- Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking clinical audits (e.g., use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services
- Contribute to public health campaigns (e.g., COVID-19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care
- Work with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation including implementing efficient ordering and return processes and reducing wastage
- Supervise prescriptions admin team in sorting and streaming general prescription requests so as to allow GPs and the Clinical Pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests
- Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems with a range of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and implementing electronic prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems and timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines
- Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)
- Develop relationships with other Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacists and members of the multi-disciplinary team within the PCN, or wider afield within the locality to support the integration of the pharmacy team across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and mental health
- Support the delivery of QOF, incentive schemes, QIPP and other quality or cost effectiveness initiatives.
Person Specification
Experience
Desirable
- Previous work experience in a GP practice.
- Experience of clinical audit.
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE in Maths and English
- BTEC / NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Candidates must be registered with the GPhC
Person Specification
Experience
Desirable
- Previous work experience in a GP practice.
- Experience of clinical audit.
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE in Maths and English
- BTEC / NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Candidates must be registered with the GPhC
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).