Pharmacy Technician

Are you passionate about high quality patient care and the delivery of an excellent pharmacy service? This is an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician to join our established team and play an essential role for the Clay Cross Medical Centre by complementing Clinical Pharmacists, Practice nurses, GPs, and administrative teams.

Pharmacy Technician scan lead on medicines expertise and enable the Pharmacists to concentrate on clinical decision making. Core role responsibilities will cover clinical,technical and administrative categories.

Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.

Synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies.

Provide expertise to address both, the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.

Manages shared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients.

Lead on clinical searches and monitoring of data.

Contribute to the design and delivery of patient questionnaires or pre-review resources to refine the system for medication reviews.

Collate and filter information from the patient to be documented on the clinical system or escalated to a Clinical pharmacist or other relevant clinician in the practice, if appropriate.

Streamlining general prescription requests, to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.

Support the implementation of local and national prescribing policies and guidance within practice, care homes and other primary care settings.

Support to deliver on contractual agenda, support Practices with QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services.

We are a well‑organised stable team and currently boast a GP Principal, 1 salaried GP (part time), 2 ANPs, 3 (wte) Practice Nurses, 2 HCA. The management of the business is led by the Practice Manager with excellent practice administration support from the Care Co‑ordinator, Senior administrator and 12 part‑time receptionists admin staff. We have excellent working relationships with the wider healthcare community, including the local District Nursing team, PCN practices, Medicines Management Team, Palliative Care Services, local care homes etc.

We are lucky to have the support of an excellent Community Matron.

Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity.

The postholder must be aware of and committed to the Equality and Diversity policies of Clay Cross Medical Centre and comply with all the requirements of these policies and actively promote Equality and Diversity issues relevant to the post.

Ensure the principles of openness, transparency and candour are observed and upheld in all working practices.

The post holder will have, or acquire through training provided by the organisation, the appropriate level of safeguarding, and knowledge, skills and practice required for the post and be aware of and comply with the organisations safeguarding protection policies and procedures.

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

Act in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.

Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non‑judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills…