Pharmacy Technician

at  PrimaryCareCareers

ABOUT THE CANDIDATE

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience;

• Professional registration with GPhC.
• BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences.
• Evidence of continued professional development (CPD).
• Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy.
• Good clinical pharmacy knowledge including terminology.
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for the improvement of prescribing.
• Knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law and ethics and current legislation.
• Excellent time keeping.

ABOUT US

Greensands medical practice is a large, well respected, stable practice operating across two sites in Potton and Gamlingay. We have 9 GP Partners and a very hard working team with a commitment to providing high quality clinical care to our patients. We have a patient list of approximately 12,800 and a positive CQC rating.

Greensands Medical Practice has an exciting opportunity for a hardworking and enthusiast pharmacy technician to join their team on a full or part time basis, days and hours can be discussed on initial contact, based at their Potton practice.

Main duties include:

• Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration, supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation.
• As determined by the practice, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies.
• Support the clinical team in Structure Medication Reviews (SMR).
• Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits.
• Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practice. This will be achieved through undertaking clinical audits (e.g. use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures.
• Support the multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.
• Support practice reception teams in streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs to review the more clinically complex requests.
• Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.