Band 5 Pharmacy Technician

As a Pharmacy Technician within our Children's Services Team in Surrey, you'll be part of an organisation that is committed to helping colleagues thrive professionally and personally. Alongside a rewarding role that makes a real difference to children, young people and families, you'll benefit from:

• Band 5 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ring fenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Are you a motivated and forward-thinking Pharmacy Technician looking to make a meaningful impact on children's healthcare? We have an exciting opportunity to join our Surrey Children's Services Team, supporting the Lead Pharmacist in delivering high-quality medicines optimisation across services that support children, young people and families. This is a unique opportunity to work beyond traditional pharmacy settings, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to improve medicines safety, governance and effectiveness across community-based children's services.

You'll play a key role in supporting medicines optimisation initiatives, undertaking audits, reviewing prescribing activity, monitoring medicine-related incidents and ensuring learning is embedded across services. Your expertise will help ensure safe, effective and compliant medicines management while supporting service improvements and innovation. Base:
Our Healthy Family Teams support services across Surrey, and you'll be based from one of our Surrey office hubs, with the opportunity for hybrid working. At HCRG Care Group, we're proud to be a flexible-first employer. While you'll have an office base, we support agile and hybrid working arrangements wherever possible.

• Promote best practice in medicines optimisation across Children's Services.
• Build strong relationships with clinical colleagues, commissioners and partner organisations.
• Support medicines optimisation work programmes across the Integrated Care System (ICS) and Integrated Care Board (ICB).
• Analyse medicines-related data, audits and incident reports, providing recommendations for improvement.
• Produce and present reports relating to medicines governance and optimisation activities.
• Support the development and implementation of medicines-related Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Undertake audits, service reviews and site visits to strengthen medicines governance.
• Contribute to Patient Group Direction (PGD) governance and Non-Medical Prescribing governance.
• Help ensure the safe handling, storage and administration of medicines across services.
• Provide medicines-related advice, training and…