Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

We are excited to recruit a Pharmacy Technician to work within our modern and expanding Pharmacy Team. The successful candidate will work between 30 to 37.5 hours per week.

As part of their employment the postholder will work within and be supported by the Pharmacy Team (Clinical Pharmacist Independent Prescriber and Prescribing Clerk) to deliver patient-facing Pharmacy services within a busy GP practice to a population of 11,900 patients.

The post holder is a Pharmacy Technician who works independently within the multidisciplinary team and within their professional boundaries. They will improve patients' health outcomes and the efficiency of the Pharmacy Team by providing direct, accessible, and timely medicines and expertise including face-to-face contact with patients. The post holder will be an integral part of the General Practice team.

Ty'r Felin Surgery has a fantastic, hardworking, diverse team with a positive friendly ethos. We have a lot to offer a new Pharmacy team member and look forward to hearing from you.

Main duties of the job

Pharmacy technicians core role responsibilities will cover clinical, and technical and administrative categories.

The purpose of the role is to lead to improvements to maximise safe, cost-effective best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care. The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines by dealing with medication for patients recently discharged from hospital, helping the practice deliver on the QAIF and QOF agenda and enhanced services, delivering repeat prescription reviews, being a point of contact for medicine-related queries, contributing to the practices repeat prescription policy, audit and education and medicines management. This role will also cover minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.

In addition, the post holder will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments. This will involve assisting the practice in achieving national requirements, NICE implementation, and utilisation of medicines optimisation initiatives.

About us

Tyr Felin Surgery is a busy, friendly and fully computerised (Vision moving to Emis) practice located within the Gorseinon area of Swansea. We currently have over 11,900 registered patients.

Our team consists of 8 GP Partners, 3 Salaried GPs, Practice Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, Clinical Pharmacist, Prescribing Clerk, Practice Manager, Deputy Practice Manager, Senior Receptionist, Administrator and Receptionist Administrators.

Tyr Felin is one of four local GP Practices that are part of Llwchwr Cluster with whom we work with collaboratively to provide enhanced care and services to our patients.

We are keen to support staff development and offer in-house and external training opportunities