Pharmacist Technician

• Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the newly formed Sea City Partnership for keen and committed individuals to join our friendly team to develop medicines optimisation services within our practices.

The post holder will play a key role in improving safe and cost-effective prescribing, enhancing patient outcomes, reducing health inequalities, and supporting public health initiatives.

We are looking to recruit a Pharmacy Technician (Salary AFC Band 5 equivalent pro-rata with NHS Pension available) to enhance the care of our patients.

The posts will complement the existing Pharmacist Team, who will provide professional support and development.

We will welcome applications from all sectors of Pharmacy, and you will be fully supported with a comprehensive induction and ongoing training.

If you have the drive, motivation and enthusiasm to work with us and other agencies to improve the quality of care to patients and be at the forefront of developing an exciting Health Service Provider.

• Mission Statement

We aim to provide all of our patients with high quality, person-centred, accessible, integrated care in a safe, responsive and courteous manner. In order to do this we will:

• Provide a service which puts patient safety, care and wellbeing at the heart of all we do.
• Convey compassion in all that we do, assessing and responding to need.
• Respect all, show courtesy, seek to understand, treat all fairly, value each person as a unique individual and support the vulnerable.
• Act with integrity and be accountable for our actions.
• Continuously learn and improve, adapting to change and building on achievements to develop our services.
• Promote best practice encouraging continuous professional development of all members of the Practice Team and valuing the contribution of each team member.
• Nurture a culture which is innovative, inclusive, open and mutually supportive
• Key Responsibilities
  • The post holder will be responsible for:
• Providing specialist pharmaceutical services, professional advice and direct support to Dr’s, Nurses, HCAs, ANP’s, Reception/Administrative Staff and the wider multi-disciplinary ARRS team to promote the safe, effective and high-quality, cost-effective use of medicines.
• Liaising with patients, clinical and non-clinical staff, practice, hospital and community pharmacists/ technicians and patient’s carers to improve the pharmaceutical care of patients.
• Undertaking medicines reconciliation in accordance with practice protocols and within clinical competence to update patients’ medical records accordingly referring on any discrepancies promptly to the clinical pharmacists or GPs.
• Assisting clinical pharmacists in Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs), including arranging required monitoring and carrying out preparatory work.
• Supporting the clinical pharmacists with long term condition reviews through lifestyle and medication advice.
• Responding to medication queries from patients, carers, and staff, providing counselling where appropriate.
• Liaising with community pharmacy teams for items which are out of stock, supporting compliance with medication and promoting lifestyle advice (smoking/alcohol).
• Promoting safe and effective prescribing, reduce medicines waste, and support repeat prescribing systems.
• To work with reception staff and medicines managers to help manage repeat prescription requests, resolving queries where possible and producing prescriptions for clinical review.
• Supporting the team with QOF, MOIS, NICE guidance implementation, antimicrobial stewardship, and prescribing audits.
• Training and supporting admin staff and pharmacy colleagues in safe prescribing processes.
• Participate in audits, service evaluation, and policy…