Pharmacy Technician (Primary Care)

Job summary

Following successful mobilisation of our pharmacy service into General Practice (supported by the NHS England funded Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway), South Downs Health and Care Ltd (SDHC Ltd) are looking for motivated and pro-active pharmacy technicians to join our team.

Demand for our pharmacy service coupled with our desire to support our membership practices has created a need for service expansion. We are looking for pharmacy technicians who wish to support co-design, delivery and quality assurance of an innovative pharmacy service to GP practices. You will work within a team who provide peer support to each other and will be supported via local inter-professional training and supervision arrangements to meet your individual learning needs.

Main duties of the job

This role involves provision of technical support as part of a team for the pharmacy service to ensure professional operational standards and excellence in pharmaceutical care and safety are maintained.

Critical to the success of the expanded pharmacy service will be the need to engage and work with practices across Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford to ensure that the service aligns with their needs and that of their registered populations.

The role will support GP practices (and Primary Care Networks) to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and efficient systems for medicines related clinical correspondence; repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes.

The post holder will support training and development of administrators to support safe, effective and efficient processes involving medicines with a particular focus on repeat prescribing processes.

Please see the Job Description document for more details.

About us

We provide services to over 190,000 patients in 19 GP practices (Eastbourne Hailsham & Seaford), being dedicated to improving access to healthcare services. We want it to be as easy as possible for patients to access support by understanding them, their context and what matters to them, whether by medical intervention or helping in other, non-medical ways. We aim to be a team of committed professionals with technical clinical, listening & supporting skills, moving from asking the question What is the matter with you? to What matters to you? We try to shift from traditional hierarchical structures to a system that supports people to make good decisions with a robust advice process; consistent, relevant supervision & training; learning-based action; and trusts the people we work with to make good decisions based on that learning. We want people to join us who want to make a difference and are prepared to do something about it if things get in the way of that.