Pharmacy Technician

Tendring PCN has an exciting opportunity for a hardworking, enthusiastic and innovative pharmacy technician to join our primary care network. You will be based at Great Bentley Surgery, but may be required to travel between all of the GP practices within our PCN. This role is offered on a part-time basis, for 24 hours per week, working pattern to be agreed with management.

The successful candidate will benefit from this opportunity to build up strong working relationships, across our organisation, and will be actively involved in how their role evolves over time.

• developing our prescribing systems to ensure safe, effective and efficient prescribing within the PCN;
• supporting the reception and administration teams, at our member practices, with complex medication queries;
• supporting the GP partners on prescribing projects and cost/safety audits and actions;
• supporting medication reviews and reconciliations;
• advising patients and healthcare professionals on medication-related queries;
• minimising medication wastage.

Tendring Primary Care Network has an exciting new opportunity for a highly motivated and proactive Pharmacy Technician to support in enhancing patient care with in our local community.

Our network is located on the North East Essex Coast and comprises of 3 GP practices:
Mayflower Medical Centre, St James Surgery & Great Bentley Surgery. It has an approximate patient population of 50,000 and it strives on bringing together local health care and resources to deliver high quality, evidence-based and integrated care to all their patients.

The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, contributing alongside the practice. They will support and be responsible for areas of medicines optimisation and delivery of excellent management of medications to ensure high quality, safe and efficient patient care in general practice.

• 25 days annual leave entitlement
• supportive and friendly environment

Ifyou would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.

• be a registered pharmacy technician with the GPhC;
• hold a Diploma Level 3 in pharmacy services, or equivalent;
• qualified or enrolled in a CPPE accredited programme.

• have strong experience in either a community pharmacy or a primary care setting;
• be confident in analysing and presenting information to health professionals;
• have experience of implementing and promoting cost-effective strategies;
• have the ability to interpret complex clinical information and present it in suitable formats, to a variety of people from professional and non-professional backgrounds;

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.