PCN Pharmacy Technician

The purpose of the role is to support the Practices and GP Prescribing Leads in ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and efficient systems for repeat prescribing and medicines management.

Primary Care Clinical Pharmacy is developing, and we are looking for a motivated individual who isflexible to respond to the developing nature of the role and the needs and priorities of individuals requiring support. Under the direction of the clinical pharmacists, we expect that you will be able to work independently and manage your own workload. You will need excellent communication skills to be able to liaise with patients, primary care staff, community pharmacists and other partners.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for the main duties and responsibilities for this role.

There are 5 GP practices that have come together to form Pendle East Primary Care Network covering a population of approximately 47, 500 patients.

Our mission in Pendle East is to strengthen, develop and support local General Practice, to enable the delivery of high-quality care to local people.

We are building teams within thePCN to enable peer support and team working both within and across professions.

We have an opportunity to create something special and we want you to be part of it. We have the infrastructure,the relationships, and the potential to create a team that will make asignificant difference to GP practices, to outcomes for local populations, andto individual lives for patients across Pendle.

Please refer to the Job Overview and Person Specification document separately for the specifics about this post.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of pharmacy procedures
• Understanding of medicines legislation and ethics
• Knowledge of diversity issues and ability to work in non-discriminatory way.
• IT skills including MS Word and Excel
• Skills in analysing and presenting prescribing activity data
• EMIS Web user

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of pharmacy procedures
• Understanding of medicines legislation and ethics
• Knowledge of diversity issues and ability to work in non-discriminatory way.
• IT skills including MS Word and Excel
• Skills in analysing and presenting prescribing activity data
• EMIS Web user

• NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services or Equivalent
• Accuracy Checking Qualifications

• Medicines management or dispensing role in the community
• General Practice repeat prescribing systems

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Depending on experience

Follows Agenda for Change Banding