Job summary
We are looking to recruit a Pharmacy Technician to join our busy but friendly team. You will work along side our pharmacists, pharmacy technician and prescribing teams. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your career in Primary Care working with the two practices in our Primary Care Network as part of our multi disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
Your role will include:
1. Dealing with patient medication queries
2. Preparing repeat prescriptions in accordance with practice policy
3. Processing discharge summaries and adding medication changes from 111 reports and clinic letters
4. Working within both practice prescription teams as well as communicating with the broader practice MDT and community pharmacies
5. Advising patients on their medication or any possible side effects
6. Work with patients to promote healthy lifestyle choices
7. Assist with audits and safety searches.
About us
Wantage Primary Care Network has a list size of approximately 34,000 patients. The practices share the same ethos of supportive learning and jointly occupy a modern health centre.
You will work alongside our GPs, nurse teams, administrators and extended workforce including clinical pharmacists, a pharmacy technician, first contact physiotherapists, mental health practitioner, frailty practitioners, care co-ordinators, social prescribers and Children & Young Persons wellbeing worker.
Both practices have a commitment to mentoring and supporting their clinical staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are seeking a proactive, forward-thinking Pharmacy Technician to join our PCN Team. As a Pharmacy Technician, you will be working with the PCN Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technician and our prescribing teams. You will be skilled and competent to be able to work on your own as well as part of a team to deliver an optimal service.
Applicants must meet the essential criteria in the job specification.
You will be required to:
8. Process repeat medication requests, including the conversion of acute requests to repeat medicines, changing quantities of medicines
9. To establish positive working relationships and effective communication with the CCG, network practices, integrated care health and care teams, and a range of local voluntary sector and community organisations
10. To document interventions made to patients’ medications in their health care records to ensure there is a clear audit trail and changes are clearly accounted for
Purpose
To provide Technical and Clinical Support to the team to ensure the safe, accurate and timely supply of prescribed medication to patients along with resolving any patient queries.
Duties and Responsibilities include:
11. ·Following agreed practice prescribing standard operating procedures
12. ·Processing repeat medication requests and preparing prescriptions
13. ·Dealing with medication queries and providing appropriate advice and guidance
14. Processing discharge summaries and adding medication changes from 111 reports and clinic letters
15. ·Maintaining Compliance with protocols
16. ·Working within both practice prescription teams as well as communicating with the broader practice MDT and community pharmacies
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
17. GPhC Registration
18. NVQ L3 or equivalent qualification in pharmacy services
19. Skills and Personal Qualities:
20. Effective communication
21. Understanding of pharmacy laws, ethics and terminology
22. Knowledge of principle of optimisation
23. Good IT skills and knowledge of clinical systems
24. Excellent organisation skills
25. Team player
26. Administration skills
27. Ability to work well under pressure and to tight timescales
28. Self-motivated and proactive
29. Excellent customer service skills
30. Professional telephone manner
31. Analytical and Problem solving skills
32. Confident with Data Entry
Desirable
33. BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
34. Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy.
35. Computer literate with an ability to use the required GP clinical systems (EMIS and Docman)
36. Understand the aims of current healthcare policy within the PCN
This role also requires:
Essential
37. Right to work in the UK
38. DBS
39. Satisfactory references
40. Driving Licence