Lead Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

Lead Pharmacy Technician

Band 6

Full or Part-time will be considered.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Gosport Primary Care Network team that strive to deliver outstanding patient care to approximately 84,500 patients in Gosport. You will be an integral part of the primary care team, working alongside our 5 practices in the locality and joining our expanding Pharmacy Team.

The Lead Pharmacy Technician will lead the pharmacy technician team in providing quality person-centred care. They will provide professional leadership and supervision in the daily provision of the clinical pharmacy service, whilst undertaking a variety of challenging roles within a continually changing and developing area.

Our progressive and innovative approach will enable the right applicant to develop both their own skills and the role itself for the future.

The ideal applicant will have BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmacy services and a current GPhC registration as a Pharmacy Technician.

As part of their employment, the post holder will achieve qualifications from an accredited training pathway, the primary care pharmacy education pathway (PCPEP), supervision and mentorship network will be provided to support the pharmacy technician.

Please see the Job Description for main duties and if you require any further information please contact Mike Norris, Lead Clinical Pharmacist at Michael.norris2@nhs.net or telephone: 07792 295410.

Main duties of the job

Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice is part of an exciting programme of transformation to develop a new model of care which addresses our ambition to deliver person-centred, co-ordinated care across the PCN. The Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice model is supported by the direction of national policy including the Five Year Forward View and GP Forward View where there is a need to better utilise the role of pharmacy within primary care to pro-actively help patients stay safe and well and out of hospital as well as helping to reduce the demands on general practice.

The Lead Pharmacy Technician will lead the pharmacy technician team in providing quality person-centred care. They will provide professional leadership and supervision in the daily provision of the clinical pharmacy service, whilst undertaking a variety of challenging roles within a continually changing and developing area.

The post holder will support the role of the pharmacist to deliver the Clinical Pharmacy in General Practice model of care, including supporting and assisting the PCN. The purpose of the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost effective best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Forton Medical Centre

Whites Place, 148 Forton Road

Gosport

Hampshire

PO12 3JP

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Forton Medical Centre

Whites Place, 148 Forton Road

Gosport

Hampshire

PO12 3JP

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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