Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

Queens Park Surgery in Bedford have an exciting opportunity for a hardworking, enthusiastic and innovative pharmacy technician to join our practice, on a full or part time basis to suit the successful applicant.

You will be developing our prescribing systems to ensure safe, effective and efficient prescribing within the practice and supporting the reception and admin teams with complex medication queries. Other regular tasks will involve supporting the GP partners on prescribing projects and cost/safety audits and actions.

You will benefit from this unique opportunity to build up strong working relationships across our organisation and will be actively involved in how this role evolves over time.

We can offer you:

• SystmOne clinical system
• Rated Good by CQC
• High QOF achievers
• Friendly nursing and administrative support
• Development of special interests encouraged
• Training supported
• Attractive salary and terms and conditions
• 6 months mutual assessment period

Main duties of the job

Candidates must be a qualified and registered pharmacy technician with GPhC and hold a Diploma Level 3 or equivalent in Pharmacy Services.

You will have strong experience in either a community pharmacy or primary care setting and be confident in analysing and presenting information to health professionals. You will also have experience of implementing and promoting cost effective strategies.

You will have the ability to interpret complex clinical information and present in suitable formats to a variety of people from professional and non-professional backgrounds.

About us

We are a very long-established practice working on two sites in Bedford, looking after 12,500 patients. We are also care taking another local practice in Bedford with a list size of 9,000 patients. Bedfordshire is a great location and has a reputation for excellent schools, beautiful villages and countryside, close to Milton Keynes for shopping, and 35 minutes from London by train.

We are active members of our primary care network and we welcome collaborative working. Our vision is progressive, we are actively looking for new opportunities and are aspiring to be a training practice. We grow our own staff and are developing advanced nurse practitioners and healthcare support workers.

Our ethos at Queens Park Group Surgery is teamwork and we are incredibly proud of the culture we have developed which encourages personal and professional development. We love the fact that staff members join our team and stay with us, and we know the importance of supporting our staff to develop their careers. For example,one of our receptionists progressed first to an HCA role and is now working to become a nursing associate through the NA apprenticeship route.

Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any queries or wish to have an informal discussion about the role -jen.gough@nhs.net.

Come and see us on our website: queensparksurgery.co.uk.