Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

• To work under the supervision of the Clinical Pharmacist to ensure the safe, accurate and timely supply of prescribed medication to patients.
• To provide technical and administrative support to the Clinical Pharmacists and Clinicians.
• To support the practice team with queries around medication from patients; including face to face and telephone support to patients, primary and community staff.

Main duties of the job

 Work with the Clinical Pharmacist and Clinicians in accordance with agreed practice prescribing standard operating procedures.

· Process repeat medication requests, including the conversion of acute requests to repeat medicines, changing quantities of medicines.

· Request prescriptions in line with agreed clinical protocols and within your competency

· Regular liaison with community and acute hospital pharmacists.

· Provide advice and guidance to patients regarding medication optimisation and lifestyle e.g. inhaler techniques.

· To provide medication review services to patients via clinics in the practice, domiciliary visits and in residential and nursing homes, and to deliver pharmaceutical care plans that maximise cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient care.

· Dealing with medication queries including acute medication requests, patient medication and prescription queries.

· To update and maintain accurate patient medication records on the practice clinical computer system, including advice given and action taken.

· Liaise with secondary and primary care colleagues to ensure correct medicines are continued following the transfer of care.

About us

Woodgrange Medical Practice is a well organised, efficient Practice, with a list size of 16000 and growing. We are based in a spacious converted bank, which has had several extensions to provide a comfortable and modern clinical environment. There are excellent transport links and we are close to the Olympic Park and Westfield shopping Centre.

As an innovative and forward-looking practice we are always looking to improve the way we deliver care. As a result we have been recipients of several national awards such as the RCGP’s best clinical innovation and Pulse magazine's diabetic clinical team of the year, runner-up.