PCN Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

Liverpool PCN are seeking an enthusiastic, patient-focused, and independently motivated person to join our existing pharmacy team. We are looking for a candidate with energy and an interest in developing the Pharmacy Technician role through collaborative working.

This is a new role taking advantage of the NHS Network Contract DES for the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme.

The successful candidate will work across the 17 GP Practices in the PCN, with projects ranging from dealing with prescription requests, cost-saving switches to facilitating medication reviews and systems and process improvements. We expect contribution to the overall medicines optimisation programme acting on best practice models from local and national guidelines.

This role will be critical to realising our ambitions to improve patient outcomes in practices and care homes.

We are committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based on the Job Description and Person Specification, therefore please ensure your application clearly demonstrates how you meet these requirements. Applicants must demonstrate primary care experience.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will support the PCN Pharmacy Team to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes as well as facilitating structured medication reviews and performing searches and assisting dispensing practices in projects.

The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service provision within general practice.

We expect the successful application to:

1. Lead improvements to maximise safe, cost effective and best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care.

2. Be a skilled professional to help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols.

3. Improve repeat prescribing processes in General Practice, including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering.

4. Minimise clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.

5. Support patients on discharge from hospital, requiring excellent communication skills.

6. Being a Pharmacy Technician in the PCN will be an evolving job role with huge scope for development as we expand our PCN team further over the years.

7. Comply with Health & Safety procedures and guidelines

About us

North Liverpool Primary Care Network is a collaboration of 17 GP Practices geographically aligned and working together to improve patient care. North Liverpool PCN has a weighted patient population of approximately 100,000 patients. It is a very large PCN with a diverse multi-cultural population with complex patient needs.

Our Network Team work across these practices, with the aim of improving our patient's wellbeing and addressing health inequalities in North Liverpool.