Pharmacy Technician
Ashington House Surgery
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Job summary
Working for Ashington House Surgery & North Swindon Surgery - Brunel PCN3
Full Time (37.5hrs per week) or Part Time.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly, innovative, expanding and forward thinking teams. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician to join our General Practice teams as we expand and develop our services.
Main duties of the job
The Pharmacy Technician will support the role of the Clinical Pharmacist to deliver the General Practice model of care. The purpose of the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost-effective prescribing in order to improve quality, efficiency and patient care. The post holder will support patients to maximise the benefits from their medication, at the same time minimising clinical risk. This will include switching medications in accordance with approved protocols, reducing medicines wastage and improving repeat prescribing processes (including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering).
About us
We are an established surgery in West Swindon. We offer a high standard of patient centred healthcare to the local community.
We offer our patients a variety of appointments including book on the day, book in advance, online, telephone and video consultations.
The surgery is a member of the Brunel Healthcare Group and part of a primary care network alongside Ridge Green Surgery, North Swindon Practice and Park Lane Practice. Together we are committed to ensuring patients within the local community have access to the best care possible within the resources that we have.
As part of the primary care network we have recently improved services by jointly employing a primary care Pharmacist to improve the quality and safety of prescribing, and also a Health and Wellbeing advisor whose role is to coordinate social initiatives and advise individual patients how they can improve their health through lifestyle changes.
In addition we also offer additional services including, Physiotherapist, Medication reviews, Diabetes Management, Blood Tests, Antenatal Care, Family Planning and Chronic Disease Management.
Further information on the services we provide and how to access them can be found within this Website.
Date posted
27 June 2022
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
A3520-22-8735
Job locations
Ashington Way
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN25 4XF
Home Ground Surgery
Thames Avenue
Swindon
SN25 1QQ
Employer details
Employer name
Ashington House Surgery
Address
Ashington Way
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN25 4XF
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