Do you have a lot of ambition to succeed and revolutionise the delivery of care by pharmacy technicians?
Would you like to make a real impact for patients in the community?
An exciting opportunity has arisen in Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice Primary Care Networks (PCNs). We are recruiting to a Full Time Band 5 PCN Pharmacy Technician to work in Welwyn Garden City PCN for a 9 month maternity leave cover. It is a great time to join the PCN pharmacy team which consists of clinical pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. The expanding team work to support the safe and effective management of medicines prescribing and monitoring to support with personalised patient care and achievement of national and local targets., The Technician will help patients get the best from their medicines, through clinical medication reviews and medicines management, working in partnership with established primary care clinicians and local stakeholders. As part of a wider team complimenting clinical pharmacists, these first-wave pioneer pharmacy technicians will provide support to the GP surgeries and PCN multi-disciplinary teams, the patients they care for and services to achieve improvement in care quality to achieve local and national health initiatives.
We are seeking applications from highly motivated, forward thinking, experienced and personable Pharmacy Technicians interested in developing their career and support to primary care and healthcare systems locally. You will have excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills and encourage a positive culture of medicines optimisation principles to assist the PCN in achieving local and national medicines-related objectives.
Whilst primary care experience will be valuable, it is not essential but having a medicines management background will be beneficial. You will need sound pharmacy clinical knowledge and computer literacy. The role will also be supported by a full training package, according to needs.
In line with the NHS Long Term Plan and the primary care network directed enhanced service contract by NHS England, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust is providing clinical pharmacy services to PCNs in the local area. This is a unique opportunity for a pharmacy technician to experience work in the rapidly expanding area of primary care. This role is part of an exciting programme of transformation to develop a new model of care across a PCN, whilst retaining the team support, benefits, training support and familiarity of employment in an NHS organisation., A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
You'll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff. We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision.