Pharmacy Technician

at  PrimaryCareCareers

ABOUT THE CANDIDATE

The successful candidate will have the following:

Essential:

• GSCE in Maths, English and science or equivalent.
• NVQ level 2 in pharmacy services or equivalent.
• Experience working in a primary care setting.
• Understanding and knowledge of healthcare provision in GP practices, QOF and enhanced services.
• Good clinical system IT knowledge of EMIS.
• An appreciation of the new NHS landscape including the relationships between individual practices, PCNs and the commissioners.

Desirable:

• NVQ level 3 (or working towards) in pharmacy services or equivalent

ABOUT US

Broxbourne Alliance is a busy Primary Care Network supporting four local practices; Abbey Road Surgery, Cuffley and Goffs Oak Medical Centre, The Maples Health Centre, Warden Lodge Medical Centre.
We are a forward thinking PCN covering a diverse patient population of around 45,000 patients.
The successful candidate will join a motivated and fully engaged team who strive to offer our patients a mix of medical and holistic care ensuring that we are able to help our most hard to reach and vulnerable patients. We are committed to tackling health inequalities and work closely with other stakeholders and community teams to achieve this. As an employer we look at supporting work life balance and professional development is important to us.

We will be happy to discuss any requirements for flexible working and offer the following benefits to our employees:

• NHS pension
• Competitive salary based on experience
• Supportive and friendly environment
• Flexible working hours 25 days holiday a year
• Peer support
• CPD Support with training and development

For any further information or if you would like to arrange an informal chat, please contact trisha.featley1@nhs.net

Broxbourne Alliance PCN is looking to recruit a qualified pharmacy technician to join our experienced team on a full-time basis.
This position will be an integral part of the general practice team, working within their professional boundaries and will be based in one of our practices in the Broxbourne PCN. We are a friendly and supportive group of practices and have a growing network of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

Main responsibilities include:

• Support the clinical pharmacist and other clinicians as the point of contact for medicines related matters.
• Process repeat medication requests, including the conversion of acute requests to repeat medicines, changing quantities of medicines.
• Issue prescriptions in line with agreed clinical protocols and within your competency.
• Encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the practice.
• Undertake medicines reconciliation post discharge and on other transfers of care.
• Update and maintain accurate and timely patient medication records on each practice clinical system, including advice given and action taken.
• Liaise with secondary and primary care colleagues to ensure correct medicines are continued following the transfer of care
• Monitor practice adherence to the prescribing policy.
• Support virtual and remote models of consultation and support including e- consultations, telehealth and telemedicine.

Please see attached job description for further information.