Pharmacy Technician - South East Shropshire PCN

Job summary

The post holder is a pharmacy technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. They are required to act within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a multi-disciplinary team within general practice and a Primary Care Network (PCN).

Please note this role is for expanding our workforce and is not to replace any current roles.

Full and part time roles will be considered, but we are ideally looking for 30+ hours a week.

This is an on site role working at a practice within the South East Shropshire Primary Care Network (SES PCN) area (DY14, WV7, WV15, WV16, TF12, T13).

The successful candidate will be part of a dynamic and forward-thinking pharmacy team employed by Our Health Partnership. Professional Leadership will be provided by the Consultant Pharmacist at OHP along with the PCN Lead Pharmacist and their team of clinical pharmacists.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will contribute to improving prescribing practice, patient care and deliver the Directed Enhanced Service PCN prescribing agenda. This includes improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practices within the PCN, promoting digitalisation, reducing medicines waste and minimising clinical risk associated with medicines taking.

The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines, operating within clear protocols and guidance. They will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice and PCN teams and promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments.

The post holder will work with all sectors of pharmacy across the health system and the wider OHP organisation to improve population health. Demonstrating improvement in patient outcomes and working to reduce health inequalities across the PCN contributing to improving the efficiency of general practice and delivering a best in class service.

About us

Our Health Partnership was set up by local GPs who are passionate about providing high quality primary care and using their time and skills effectively to benefit patients.

We are currently a GP partnership of 30 practices with 38 surgeries, serving around 280,000 patients in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Shropshire.

Benefits of joining Our Health Partnership (OHP)

• NHS Pension
• Bank holidays off
• Staff employee benefits through Vivup
• Octopus electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme.