Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

Botesdale Health Centre in Dissare looking for a professional and conscientious pharmacy technician on a part-time basis for 23 hours per week.

The pharmacy technician will act within their professional boundaries, working alongside our clinical pharmacist, clinical team within the practice and the wider Blackbourne PCN.

Main duties of the job

To be considered for this position, the successful candidate will have the following qualifications, skills and experience:

• Registered pharmacy technician with the GPhC.
• Diploma Level 3 in pharmacy services,or equivalent.
• Strong experience in either a
• Support practice dispensary team in sorting and streaming general prescription requests and queries
• Handle prescription queries and requests directly.
• Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits
• Support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients
• Implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance
• Ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage
• Accurate and timely summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data
• Ensure that all practice policies are fully implemented
• Support public health and screening programmes including immunisations and vaccination programmes
• community pharmacy or a primary care setting desirable.
• Confident inanalysing and presenting information to health professionals.

About us

We are a rural GMS 10,100 patient surgery with 4 partners, 5 salaried GPs and a fantastic clinical and practice team with an on-site dispensary. We are located in a modern, recently extended surgery with community nurses located on site as well as an X-ray suite and glorious surrounding countryside.