Accuracy Checking Technician

Responsibilities

As a registered professional you will review and maintain stock lines, provide structured feedback and support to colleagues around dispensing errors and near misses, and, after successful completion of ACT modules, perform accuracy checking of prescriptions. You will support, coach and delegate work to dispensers and store teams where appropriate and support the pharmacist team in delivering a safe and effective pharmacy service.

Additional responsibilities include:

training peers across all areas and levels; monitoring daily dispensary workload and liaising with the Responsible Pharmacist; analysing processes within the dispensary to ensure efficiency and profit; assis­ting in all dispensary activities as required; managing expensive stock to limit stock holding; maintaining cleanliness of the workspace in line with GPhC standards; completing additional projects as delegated by the Pharmacy Manager; ensuring compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act and all other relevant legislation (e.g. Medicines Act, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH));

consistently following Standard Operating Procedures and suggesting improvements via QMS; attending study days and updating courses as necessary; and undertaking any further duties as required by the Pharmacy Manager.

• Technical accuracy checking of prescriptions, prioritising workload accordingly.
• Monitoring daily dispensary workload and liaising with the Responsible Pharmacist to ensure effective management.
• Analysis of processes within the dispensary to ensure efficiency and profit.
• Training of peers across all areas and levels.
• Assistance in all dispensary activities, where required.
• Expensive stock management, managing orders of high‑cost lines to limit stock holding.
• Maintaining cleanliness of the workspace in line with GPhC standards.
• Completing additional projects outside of the dispensary, delegated by the Pharmacy Manager or Management Team.
• Ensuring compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act and all other relevant legislation e.g. Medicines Act, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH).
• Consistently following Standard Operating Procedures, suggesting and amending improvements via QMS, and making consistent regulatory contributions.
• Attending study days and updating courses as deemed necessary for the development of the dispensary and the individual.
• Undertaking any further duties as required by the Pharmacy Manager.

• 3+ years dispensary experience, although newly qualified ACTs accepted.
• Experience with stock pharmaceutical control.

• NVQ3 equivalent pharmacy technician course.
• Registration with GPhC as a Pharmacy Technician.
• CMI level 3 in First Line Management.
• Accredited accuracy checking course and GPhC registration as Accuracy Checking Technician.

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.