Pharmacy Technician (Primary Care)
The Bay Medical Practice
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Job summary
As the largest practice on the Isle of Wight, we can offer you a secure, supportive environment to grow. Working as a co-professional you will be a part of a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team. Predominantly based at our Shanklin site, you will join an existing team including a lead Clinical Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technician, and prescriptions clerks in supporting the registered patients of The Bay Medical Practice. Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice is part of an exciting programme of transformation to develop a new model of care which addresses our ambition to deliver person-centred, coordinated care across the district. The Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice model is supported by the direction of national policy including the Five Year Forward View and GP Forward View where there is a need to better utilise the role of pharmacy within primary care to pro-actively help patients stay safe and well and out of hospital as well as helping to reduce the demands on general practice. Pharmacy technicians play an important role, complementing clinical pharmacists, community pharmacists and other members of the PCN multi-disciplinary team. Pharmacy technicians are different to clinical pharmacists as they are not able to prescribe or make clinical decisions, instead working under supervision to ensure effective and efficient use of medicines.
Main duties of the job
Pharmacy technicians’ core role responsibilities will cover clinical, and technical and administrative categories. 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. This will involve assisting the PCN in achieving national requirements, NICE implementation and utilisation of medicines optimisation initiatives. All Pharmacy Technicians must work within their competencies and have professional indemnity for their role.
About us
As the largest practice on the Isle of Wight, we can offer you a secure, supportive environment to grow.
Date posted
20 April 2022
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£28,532 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Compressed hours
Reference number
A5223-22-5716
Job locations
The Bay Medical Practice
Broadway
Sandown
Isle Of Wight
PO36 9GA
The Bay Medical Practice
1 Carter Road
Shanklin
Isle Of Wight
PO37 7HR
Employer details
Employer name
The Bay Medical Practice
Address
The Bay Medical Practice
Broadway
Sandown
Isle Of Wight
PO36 9GA
Employer's website
https://thebaymedicalpractice.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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