Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

The White House Surgery are looking for an experienced Pharmacy Technician. Pharmacy Technicians play an important role, complementing clinical pharmacists, community pharmacists and other members of the surgery team. Pharmacy technicians core role responsibilities will cover clinical, technical and administrative categories.

Main duties of the job

The purpose of the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost effective best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care. The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practice, including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines. 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, carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation where required.

You will also manage shared care protocols and liaise with other team members for more complex patients.

You will also support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.

Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) and Electronic Repeat Dispensing (ERD)

Also supporting practice reception teams and prescription clerks in streaming general prescription requests.

About us

We are a friendly and busy General Practice approximately 12,000 Patients.

We are a well-established and dynamic team comprising of 3 GP and 1 non-GP Partner, Salaried GPs, ACPs, Pharmacy Technician, Physiotherapist, Practice Nurses and Healthcare Assistant who are well supported by an experienced administrative team.

We are part of the Folkestone, Hythe and Rural Primary Care Network (PCN) encompassing 7 local practices providing additional services to meet our patients needs in a holistic manner.