Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

An opportunity has arisen for a Pharmacy Technician to join Richmond Surgery, full or part time. Candidates recently qualified are very welcome to apply.

This is a new role at Richmond Surgery. The Pharmacy Technician will be working closely with the Practice Clinical and Prescription Teams in processing repeat prescriptions, identifying and streamlining the medication review process, assisting with improving medicines optimisation in chronic disease and carrying out medication audits.

The Pharmacy Technician will support the role General Practice plays in delivering the prevention and public health agenda and sign post to other health care providers such as community pharmacy.

This is a role in which the primary responsibilities may change as the service is further developed and we would encourage full engagement of the successful candidate.

Main duties of the job

The following are the core responsibilities of the Pharmacy Technician, but not limited and dependent upon workload and staffing levels.

• Support and guide our Reception Care Navigation Team with repeat prescriptions and medication queries
• Encourage and support patients to reconcile medications to facilitate bimonthly collections
• Act upon compliance issues, liaising with the appropriate clinician
• Identify patients for medication review. Support the MDTs to improve medication reviews, maintain an accurate recall system
• Effectively liaise with external services i.e. district nurses to ensure medications for housebound patients
• Input data to patient healthcare records as necessary
• Record and report adverse effects accurately and appropriately, informing the Clinical Team/registered GP immediately
• Use local protocols to ensure correct monitoring of high risk medications
• Use prescribing data to identify priorities to improve prescribing and patient care in conjunction with the Medicines Management Team
• Access clinical IT systems to document activities, run searches and audits.
• Promote medicines optimisation to improve patient outcomes and to reduce waste
• Develop relationships with the wider MSK team and promote networking
• Promote the use of ERD and EPS within the practice
• Reconciliation of discharge summaries and care home records
• Support clinical team with structured medication reviews
• Support with QOF and national and locally commissioned services

About us

The ideal candidate will complete our existing clinical team and be keen to develop and cement an innovative but traditional way of delivering General Practice care. We are currently 4 full-time GP Partners, a Managing Partner, Deputy Practice Manager, Nurse Manager, 3 Physicians Associates together with a Paramedic home-visiting service, 1st contact MSK, Mental Health and Wellbeing practitioners, Clinical Care Co-ordinators, Practice Nurses, HCAs and phlebotomists.

As a partnership, we have based our care on the use of personal lists, something which we feel strongly is essential for continuity of care for both patient and practitioner satisfaction. Times are changing, but we are looking to develop and evolve the model of care that has worked so well for so many years by using a team approach.

We are a relaxed, hard-working team and welcome applications from anyone at any stage in their career who is excited to help us develop and deliver this unique model of practice.

We are a one-site practice, and together with the other two practices in the Fleet, we form the Fleet Primary Care Network. We have an active role in the PCN and benefit from having Frimley Park Hospital as our closest secondary care facility.

Fleet is an area that consistently rates among the highest in terms of quality of life in the country. Fleet has good road and rail links with London and surrounding towns and countryside.

We operate with EMIS Web, are high QoF achievers and CQC rated good.