Pharmacy Technician

Job description

Job responsibilities

We are seeking a proactive, forward-thinking Pharmacy Technician to join our PCN Team. As a Pharmacy Technician, you will be working with the PCN Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technician and our prescribing teams. You will be skilled and competent to be able to work on your own as well as part of a team to deliver an optimal service.

Applicants must meet the essential criteria in the job specification.

You will be required to:

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

• To establish positive working relationships and effective communication with the CCG, network practices, integrated care health and care teams, and a range of local voluntary sector and community organisations

• To document interventions made to patients’ medications in their health care records to ensure there is a clear audit trail and changes are clearly accounted for

Purpose

To provide Technical and Clinical Support to the team to ensure the safe, accurate and timely supply of prescribed medication to patients along with resolving any patient queries.

Duties and Responsibilities include:

• ·Following agreed practice prescribing standard operating procedures

• ·Processing repeat medication requests and preparing prescriptions

• ·Dealing with medication queries and providing appropriate advice and guidance

• Processing discharge summaries and adding medication changes from 111 reports and clinic letters

• ·Maintaining Compliance with protocols

• ·Working within both practice prescription teams as well as communicating with the broader practice MDT and community pharmacies

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• GPhC Registration
• NVQ L3 or equivalent qualification in pharmacy services
• Skills and Personal Qualities:
• Effective communication
• Understanding of pharmacy laws, ethics and terminology
• Knowledge of principle of optimisation
• Good IT skills and knowledge of clinical systems
• Excellent organisation skills
• Team player
• Administration skills
• Ability to work well under pressure and to tight timescales
• Self-motivated and proactive
• Excellent customer service skills
• Professional telephone manner
• Analytical and Problem solving skills
• Confident with Data Entry

Desirable

• BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
• Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy.
• Computer literate with an ability to use the required GP clinical systems (EMIS and Docman)
• Understand the aims of current healthcare policy within the PCN

This role also requires:

Essential

• Right to work in the UK
• DBS
• Satisfactory references
• Driving Licence

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Wantage Primary Care Network

Address

Wantage Health Centre

Mably Way

Wantage

Oxfordshire

OX12 9BN

Employer's website

https://wantagechurchstreet.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)