Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

Islington Central Medical Centre is excited to be adding the role of a pharmacist technician to its team. Involved in the pharmacy-related functioning of the GP, a pharmacy technician prepares and supplies prescriptions and ensures that patients are able to make the most out of their medicines.

Islington Central Medical Centre is a large teaching and training practice with almost 25,000 patients and a large team of clinical and administrative staff. ICMC is a purpose-built surgery, located just a 5-minute walk from Highbury and Islington Station, which has excellent underground, overground and national rail transportation links.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will be required to work closely with the pharmacy team in accordance with prescribing standards as well as working with the GP partners and practice manager to ensure safe and effective use of medicines for patients. Work with the pharmacy team in accordance with agreed practice prescribing standard operating procedures.

-Work with the pharmacy team in accordance with agreed practice prescribing standard operating procedures

-Process repeat medication requests

-Issue prescriptions in accordance with guidelines and personal competency

-Provide guidance and advice to patients on medication optimisation, regulation and monitoring as well as lifestyle

-Help deal with medication queries

-Update and maintain patients medical records

-Take instructions from the partners, practice managers and practice-based pharmacists to ensure that patients have the necessary blood tests and healthcare checks so that their prescriptions can be issued in time

-Work with the practice manager, partners and pharmacy team to ensure relevant CQC work applicable to the pharmacy is done

-All of this will be guided by a supervisor

About us

Our practice ethos is to strive towards a partnership between patients and health professionals based on the following key facets

Mutual Respect

We endeavour to treat all our patients with dignity, respect and honesty. Everyone at Islington Central Medical Centre is committed to deliver an excellent service. We ask all patients to highlight any discrepancies and to offer the same commitment in return.

Holistic Care

We treat patients and illnesses. This means that we are equally interested in the physical, psychological and social aspects of an individual's care.

Continuity of Care and the Therapeutic relationship

Building and maintaining a strong relationship between doctors, health professionals, and patients is essential to the way we work. This is especially so in the management of ongoing problems or long-term illness. In these circumstances we would encourage patients to continue seeing the same health professional and wherever possible we will facilitate this through our appointments system.

Learning and Training

We are committed to the ongoing professional development of our clinical and non-clinical team. We believe in life-long learning and all staff undergo an annual appraisal where learning and development needs are identified. We also recognise the benefit of supported learning for our patients and families in enhancing your ability to manage and deal with both self-limiting and long-term illnesses.