Pre-Registration Pharmacy Technician

Job responsibilities

The role of a Pharmacy technicians pre-registration trainee (PTPT) aims to complement pharmacy technician in primary care and improve patient care quality by optimizing safe and cost-effective prescribing practices. This includes switching medications to approved protocols, enhancing repeat prescribing processes, promoting repeat dispensing, online ordering, minimizing clinical risk, and reducing wasted medicines. The pre-registration pharmacy technician will also learn how to promote medicines optimization principles and assist the PCN in meeting national requirements and implementing NICE guidelines, under the supervision of a qualified pharmacy technician and/or pharmacist.

The PTPT will work through the level 3 Pharmacy Technician apprenticeships programme and complete all assignments and educational tasks to deadlines to satisfy the requirements for qualification and registration as a Pharmacy Technician.

Clinical Responsibilities:

Learn how to undertake patient-facing roles for effective medicines use by shadowing pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, and other members of the clinical team in General Practice.

Learn how to carry out medicines optimisation tasks like checking inhaler techniques, supporting medication reviews, and medicines reconciliation by shadowing relevant clinical staff or under the supervision of a qualified pharmacy technician and/or pharmacist.

Learn how to support medication reviews for new care home patients and synchronize medicines for patient transfers, under the supervision of a qualified pharmacy technician and/or pharmacist.

Learn how to provide expertise to address public health and social care needs of patients by shadowing relevant clinical staff or under the supervision of a qualified pharmacy technician and/or pharmacist.

Learn how to manage shared care protocols by shadowing relevant clinical staff and liaise with Pharmacy Technicians and Clinical Pharmacists for complex patients.

Technical and Administrative Responsibilities:

Learn how to support the PCN team for efficient medicines optimization processes.

Learn how to implement efficient ordering and return processes to reduce medication wastage.

Work towards understating how to provide training on the legal, safe, and secure handling of medicines.

Learn how to promote Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering via NHS App

Learn how to develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals for integrated health and social care.

Shadow qualified pharmacy technicians to learn how to support the Clinical Pharmacist in delivering Structured Medication Reviews (SMR).

Shadow prescription officers teams and help with processing prescription requests.

Shadow Clinical Pharmacists/Pharmacy Technician team to learn how to support the implementation of national prescribing policies in various primary care settings.

Shadow Clinical Pharmacists/Pharmacy Technician team to support the PCN in QIPP agenda, QOF, and locally commissioned enhanced services.

General Responsibilities:

Promote equality and diversity.

Observe principles of openness, transparency, and candor.

Acquire appropriate level of safeguarding knowledge and comply with related policies.

Learn about infection prevention and control issues and how to report such incidents.

Support the equality, diversity, and rights of patients, carers, and colleagues.

Participate in training programs and personal/professional development.

Participate in weekly Clinical Meetings

Strive to maintain quality within the practice.

Other Specific Requirements

Essential

• Must be prepared to travel and work on any site of the Roxton Practice.
• Willing and able to commit own time to study.
• Eligibility to register as a Pharmacy Technician in accordance with GPhC requirements and standards.

Desirable

• Evidence of recent commitment to study / course undertaken.

Skills and Ability

Essential

• Ability to work to and keep deadlines.
• Can maintain high levels of accuracy and sustain concentration in a busy environment.
• Be IT literate.
• Ability to manage workloads effectively.
• Ability to adapt to changing environments.
• Act in a professional manner.
• Ability to be punctual and reliable.

Desirable

• Evidence of attention to detail.
• Evidence of effective customer service skills.
• Be able to manage own professional and personal development.

Qualifications

Essential

• Maths GCSE or equivalent grade C/4 or above
• English Language GCSE or equivalent grade C/4 or above
• Double Science award GCSE/2 Science subjects GCSE grade C/4 or above
• At least one additional GCSE grade C/4 or above

Desirable

• Pharmacy Level 2 or equivalent GPhC accredited qualification
• IT qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Able to articulate the importance of patient confidentiality in the healthcare setting.
• Can demonstrate comprehension of the various roles of a pharmacy technician.
• Previous experience of working and communicating within a team

Desirable

• Previous role in pharmacy setting in the UK (within the last 3 years)
• Experience in working in a patient and/or customer orientated healthcare setting.
• Previous experience of stock management
• Previous experience of working with medicines in a pharmacy or healthcare setting
• To know the professional standards set by the GPhC for pharmacy professionals.
• To be aware of the GPhC 'Code of Conduct for Trainee Pharmacy Technicians'.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).