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Sussex Primary Care

Pharmacy Tech

The closing date is 15 August 2025

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Job summary

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, coordinated care across the district. 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.

Pharmacy technicians play an important role, complementing clinical pharmacists, community pharmacists and other members of the PCN multi-disciplinary team. Pharmacy technicians are different to clinical pharmacists as they are not able to prescribe or make clinical decisions, instead working under supervision to ensure effective and efficient use of medicines.

Main duties of the job

To support the delivery of safe, effective, and efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes. 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. To carry out medicines switches in GP practices in line with practice andICB agreed specific protocols reviewing patients records; amending records and informing patients. Carry out housekeeping whilst in patient records e.g. dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation. Promotion of electronic repeat dispensing and online ordering Report on key performance indicators to demonstrate added value for patients and general practice in accordance with NICE guidance.

About us

Dolphins Practice is part of a wider group owed by Sussex Primary Care. Sussex Primary Care run a number of GP Practices across Sussex providing excellent primary care in the heart of the community.We are a learning organisation that listens to our team of staff, patients and partners to guide our future. At the heart of our vision are our patients and their needs.

Details

Date posted

14 July 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

U0087-25-0018

Job locations

Dolphins Surgery

Butlers Green Road

Haywards Heath

West Sussex

RH16 4BN


Job description

Job responsibilities

Key responsibilities

Registered with GPhC

Passion for patient care

Confidentiality code of conduct

Medication administration

Undertaking patient facing and patient supporting role

Medicines optimisation tasks

Support medication reviews and medication reconciliation

Consultation skills to work in partnership with patients

Provide primary support to practice staff with prescription and medication queries

Synchronise medicines for patients

Provide specialist expertise, where competent to address both public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, help in tackling local health inequalities

Clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with pharmacist for more complex patients

Support antimicrobial stewardship to help reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing

Delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits to support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance

Manage practice prescriptions Re-authorisation and reissue queries

Action MHRA, QOF, Medicines Management, e-Repeat Dispensing, High risk drugs management and workstream issues

Proficiency in running reports

Proficiency in Navigating SystemOne

Strong attention to detail and accuracy in reauthorising medicines

Effective communication skills to interact with pharmacists, patients and healthcare providers

Work with multi-disciplinary team

Supervise practice reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests

Day to day planning of personal workloads follow practice policies and procedures and meet set deadlines

Signpost patients to the correct healthcare profession

Maintain accurate clinical record of all patient consultations and work review

Ensuring the practice conforms to NICE guidelines

Conduct prescribing audits and share outcomes of clinical audits to facilitate improvement and change in practice

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key responsibilities

Registered with GPhC

Passion for patient care

Confidentiality code of conduct

Medication administration

Undertaking patient facing and patient supporting role

Medicines optimisation tasks

Support medication reviews and medication reconciliation

Consultation skills to work in partnership with patients

Provide primary support to practice staff with prescription and medication queries

Synchronise medicines for patients

Provide specialist expertise, where competent to address both public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, help in tackling local health inequalities

Clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with pharmacist for more complex patients

Support antimicrobial stewardship to help reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing

Delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits to support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance

Manage practice prescriptions Re-authorisation and reissue queries

Action MHRA, QOF, Medicines Management, e-Repeat Dispensing, High risk drugs management and workstream issues

Proficiency in running reports

Proficiency in Navigating SystemOne

Strong attention to detail and accuracy in reauthorising medicines

Effective communication skills to interact with pharmacists, patients and healthcare providers

Work with multi-disciplinary team

Supervise practice reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests

Day to day planning of personal workloads follow practice policies and procedures and meet set deadlines

Signpost patients to the correct healthcare profession

Maintain accurate clinical record of all patient consultations and work review

Ensuring the practice conforms to NICE guidelines

Conduct prescribing audits and share outcomes of clinical audits to facilitate improvement and change in practice

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered with GPhC
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered with GPhC

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Primary Care

Address

Dolphins Surgery

Butlers Green Road

Haywards Heath

West Sussex

RH16 4BN


Employer's website

http://www.sussexprimarycare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Primary Care

Address

Dolphins Surgery

Butlers Green Road

Haywards Heath

West Sussex

RH16 4BN


Employer's website

http://www.sussexprimarycare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Business Manager

Jayne Harper

jayne.harper1@nhs.net

01444414767

Details

Date posted

14 July 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

U0087-25-0018

Job locations

Dolphins Surgery

Butlers Green Road

Haywards Heath

West Sussex

RH16 4BN


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