Job summary
Symphony Health Care Services are looking for a experienced Pharmacy Technician to join our dynamic team at North Petherton Surgery.
This exciting opportunity offers a supportive environment within a leading primary care provider. The chance to make a real difference to patient care. A role that values innovation, efficiency, and collaboration.
The hours available for this post is 34 hours per week. Working pattern to be discussed at interview.
The rate of pay for this role is £15.45 per hour (£30,218.95 per annum pro rata ).
Main duties of the job
To support SHS surgeries in providing safe, effective and efficient systems for medicines reconciliation on transfer of care, and to support the repeat prescribing systems. The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines by supporting systems to improve the continuity of care, supporting improvements to streamline the repeat prescribing processes, minimising clinical risk and reducing waste. You will be enrolled on and actively participate in a recognised post-registration pharmacy technician educational pathway.
The post-holder will be based at our North Petherton Surgery but may work across all of our medicines management hubs and practices.
About us
Symphony Healthcare Services (SHS) was established in 2016 as part of the award-winning Symphony Programme Vanguard, developing new models of care. We now support 16 practices across Somerset providing care for over 100,000 patients.
SHS has developed a model where each practice is encouraged to operate autonomously, but as a subsidiary of NHS Somerset Foundation Trust (SFT), and with the backing and economies of scale from a central support team (particularly for HR, finance, corporate and strategic management matters).
Providing NHS services is at the heart of what we do. Our vision is to ensure that primary care is sustainable for patients and practices in Somerset, and we aim to be a national exemplar for primary care provision.
We work closely with our practice teams to support, develop and transform patient care and working practices with innovation and technology at the heart of what we do.
SHS welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and underrepresented groups. When undertaking recruitment and selection for our services, SHS we are committed to equality of opportunity for all.
SHS offers a NHS or NEST Pension, a fantastic range of employee benefits and salary sacrifice schemes (see attached poster), along with flexible working from day of employment and an agile approach to home / office-based working where appropriate to the role.
We look forward to hearing from you and receiving your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To support the practice pharmacist and clinical teams, including:
- support the practice pharmacist with medicines reconciliation in accordance with practice protocols and to update patients medical records and prescriptions.
- carry out medication switches, dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation to ensure safe and cost-effective prescribing
- initiate repeat prescribing (eRD) for appropriate patients
- provide advice to GPs, staff and patients in changes to prescribing in order to support the improvement of prescribing safety, quality and cost effectiveness
- participate in medication audits and QOF quality improvement projects
- support practices to meet QOF indicators
- support patient safety with high risk drug monitoring and other safety scorecard indicators
Please read the attached job description before applying.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To support the practice pharmacist and clinical teams, including:
- support the practice pharmacist with medicines reconciliation in accordance with practice protocols and to update patients medical records and prescriptions.
- carry out medication switches, dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation to ensure safe and cost-effective prescribing
- initiate repeat prescribing (eRD) for appropriate patients
- provide advice to GPs, staff and patients in changes to prescribing in order to support the improvement of prescribing safety, quality and cost effectiveness
- participate in medication audits and QOF quality improvement projects
- support practices to meet QOF indicators
- support patient safety with high risk drug monitoring and other safety scorecard indicators
Please read the attached job description before applying.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BTech. City and Guilds or Apothecary Hall,
- NVQ level 3 with BTech in Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- Accredited Medicines Management Technician
Experience
Essential
- At least 2 years practical experience of working as a pharmacy technician in primary care, community or secondary care setting
- Experience of providing pharmaceutical and prescribing advice
- Practical experience of computerised recoding systems
- Good clinical pharmacy knowledge
- Experience of prescriptions processes and systems
- Experience of audit and quality improvement projects
- Enrolled on a recognised pharmacy technician educational pathway
Desirable
- Experience of systems to support patients in Primary Care setting.
- Good clinical pharmacy knowledge.
- Experience of project implementation.
Personal qualities
Essential
- Attention to detail.
- Good communication skills, written and oral.
- IT and Keyboard skills.
- Ability to follow procedures and work to deadlines.
- Ability to handle situations of potential conflict.
- Problem solving skills.
- Ability to work on own initiative.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Influencing and negotiating skills.
- Ability to plan and organise.
Special Requirements
Desirable
- Knowledge of the General Practice environment.
- Knowledge of prescribing systems relating to GP practice, community.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BTech. City and Guilds or Apothecary Hall,
- NVQ level 3 with BTech in Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- Accredited Medicines Management Technician
Experience
Essential
- At least 2 years practical experience of working as a pharmacy technician in primary care, community or secondary care setting
- Experience of providing pharmaceutical and prescribing advice
- Practical experience of computerised recoding systems
- Good clinical pharmacy knowledge
- Experience of prescriptions processes and systems
- Experience of audit and quality improvement projects
- Enrolled on a recognised pharmacy technician educational pathway
Desirable
- Experience of systems to support patients in Primary Care setting.
- Good clinical pharmacy knowledge.
- Experience of project implementation.
Personal qualities
Essential
- Attention to detail.
- Good communication skills, written and oral.
- IT and Keyboard skills.
- Ability to follow procedures and work to deadlines.
- Ability to handle situations of potential conflict.
- Problem solving skills.
- Ability to work on own initiative.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Influencing and negotiating skills.
- Ability to plan and organise.
Special Requirements
Desirable
- Knowledge of the General Practice environment.
- Knowledge of prescribing systems relating to GP practice, community.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
