Main area: Pharmacy
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Applications for both full and part-time (with a minimum of 18.75 hours per week) are to be considered. A Monday must be a working day. The role is largely home or site working with one day a week at County Hall.)
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
* Home or remote working
* Compressed hours
Job ref: 137-6828864
Employer: NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: County Hall
Town: Norwich
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum, pro rata for part time
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/01/2025 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 5
NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board (ICB) plans and buys healthcare services for our local population. We are accountable for the performance and finances of the NHS across Norfolk and Waveney – a total budget of £2 billion a year. Known as NHS Norfolk and Waveney, the organisation works with local people, health and care professionals, and partner organisations to improve the health and wellbeing of our population.
Job overview
As a Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician - Repeat Prescribing, you will be supporting GP practices to identify areas of improvement within their repeat prescribing processes and systems. The role is based within the Repeat Prescribing and Support team working with pharmacy technicians and assistants. The team is friendly and supportive and you will also help to guide the ongoing development of the work projects. The role is largely home-based or working out in GP practices across Norfolk and Waveney. There is no weekend or bank holiday working in this role and flexible working patterns can be considered.
We are interested to receive applications for both full and part-time working with a minimum of 18.75 hours. The role would be ideal for those pharmacy technicians still working in practice or who have had experience of working in a GP or PCN role, but applications are welcomed from all sectors of practice. Please note you must be a GPhC registered pharmacy technician to apply for this role.
Main duties of the job
The role of Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician - Repeat Prescribing involves contacts with multiple partners within the ICS including GP practices and community pharmacies - involving both clinical and non-clinical staff. You will work on defined projects with practices to improve repeat prescribing safety and cost. You will support practices to make improvement changes and embed these. The post will use data from multiple sources to highlight areas of need and consider patients with health inequalities and how they might require additional support to access their medicines. The role is varied and may also involve supporting work such as developing policies or training.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
* BTEC / NVQ3 in Pharmacy Services / Registered Pharmacy Technician
* Experience working in community / hospital pharmacy
* Working knowledge of Office programmes
* Experience working in PCN / GP / Primary Care Pharmacy
* Evidence of dealing with patients who may be upset / distressed
Analytical and planning skills
* Work on own and as part of a team
Additional
* Able to travel independently to sites throughout Norfolk and Waveney
Your application
Please submit your application form without delay to avoid disappointment; we will close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms. We are unable to accept CVs as part of an application. Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification on their application will be shortlisted for this job. Be mindful that any offer of employment will be subject to pre-employment checks e.g. health, identity, right to work, qualifications, registration and references. Please provide up-to-date referee details to avoid delay.
To ensure diverse representation at all levels across the workforce and to understand the differing needs of our stakeholders, Norfolk and Waveney ICB is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and to addressing any imbalance of opportunity or disadvantage that an individual with a protected characteristic could face. We would strongly encourage applications from candidates from under-represented backgrounds.
Applicants with a disability need only meet the essential criteria to be invited to interview. We will also make any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process providing that you inform us of any special requirements.
Further information
Please check the email account (including your junk mail) that you supplied as part of your application on a regular basis following the closing date and throughout the recruitment process, as this is how we will communicate with you.
Arden & GEM CSU administer this account on behalf of the ICB, you may receive communications from both the CSU and the ICB during your recruitment.
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