Job summary
We are looking to recruit a skilled, experienced and enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly surgery in Saxmundham, Suffolk. You will work with our PCN pharmacists and practice staff to ensure safe, accurate and timely supply of prescribed medication. We are ideally looking to recruit full time but will consider flexible/part-time hours.
Main duties of the job
Pharmacy technicians play an important role, complementing clinical pharmacists, dispensary, medicines management, clinical and non clinical team within the surgery.
Saxmundham Health's Pharmacy Technicians core responsibilities will cover clinical, technical and administrative components.
The purpose of the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost effective best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of our patients care. The post holder will support patients to get eh best from their medications by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes, including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce medicine waste.
In addition, the post holder will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments. This will involve assisting the practice and PCN in achieving national requirements, NICE implementation and utilisation of medicines optimisation initiatives.
About us
Saxmundham Health is a thriving semi-rural PMS Practice of 9500 patients is truly multi- disciplinary with a Good CQC Rating.
We are both forward thinking but more importantly forward acting.
We are looking to recruit a Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly, supportive and dedicated team to deliver high quality healthcare while putting the buzz back into General Practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
Effective medicines use-shared decision making with patients
Medicines Optimisation tasks- inhaler technique, support medication reviews, medicines reconciliation
New Care Home Patients- reconciliation and synchronisation when transferred between settings
Referring suitable identified patients for Structured Medication Reviews
Lifestyle advice and tackling health inequalities
Supporting shared care protocols
Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship
Support drug monitoring and safe authorisation of repeat medications
Technical:
Ensure efficient medicines optimisation and reduce waste
Support electronic transfer of prescriptions process
Supervising reception teams re: prescription requests
Support national and local prescribing policies
Provide leadership for medicines management systems, safe repeat prescribing, management of high risk medicines
Patient safety audits
see job description for full detail
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical:
Effective medicines use-shared decision making with patients
Medicines Optimisation tasks- inhaler technique, support medication reviews, medicines reconciliation
New Care Home Patients- reconciliation and synchronisation when transferred between settings
Referring suitable identified patients for Structured Medication Reviews
Lifestyle advice and tackling health inequalities
Supporting shared care protocols
Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship
Support drug monitoring and safe authorisation of repeat medications
Technical:
Ensure efficient medicines optimisation and reduce waste
Support electronic transfer of prescriptions process
Supervising reception teams re: prescription requests
Support national and local prescribing policies
Provide leadership for medicines management systems, safe repeat prescribing, management of high risk medicines
Patient safety audits
see job description for full detail
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Essential
- GPhC Registered Pharmacy Technician
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmacy services
Experience
Essential
- Essential
- 2 year experience in a hospital, community or primary care pharmacy
- Primary care experience
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Essential
- GPhC Registered Pharmacy Technician
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmacy services
Experience
Essential
- Essential
- 2 year experience in a hospital, community or primary care pharmacy
- Primary care experience
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
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
