Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

The Ashton Primary Care Network are looking to employ a full time Pharmacist to work alongside a team of PCN Pharmacists across the 8 Practices in Ashton-Under-Lyne. You will be working alongside a growing team consisting of General Practitioners, ANPs, Practice Nurses, Physician Associates, Paramedics and HCAs. This team based care approach ensures that patients are better cared for in the community.

Are you looking for a new challenge with the opportunity to apply your existing knowledge and skills whilst also developing a new skillset?

Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice is part of an exciting programme of transformation to develop a new model of care across the Primary Care Network. Overarching goals are to help keep patients safe and well out of hospital and reduce the demands on general practice regards medicine use.

The position initially is for 12 months with a view to extending.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a Full-time Pharmacy Technician to join our existing General Practice Clinical Pharmacy Team. We are looking for a dynamic and pro-active Pharmacy Technician to deliver and develop medicines optimisation services, improve patient outcomes and support the primary care workforce in general practice

Main duties of the job

To maximise safe, cost-effective, prescribing to improve the quality of patient care.

Support and help patients to get the best from their medicines,

Use existing protocols to maximise cost-effective preparations,

Improve repeat prescribing processes (including use of electronic repeat dispensing and online ordering),

Minimising clinical risk and reducing avoidable wasted medicines.

Develop and encourage a positive culture of medicines optimisation principles to assist the PCN in achieving local and national medicines-related objectives.

- Working pattern - 37.5 hours per week, over 5 days.

About us

Ashton Primary Care Network consists of 8 practices in Ashton-Under-Lyne who work collaboratively with the aim to provide holistic and coordinated care for patients. We cover a population size of approximately 62,000 patients.