Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - Primary Care

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Ashington; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust seeks a Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician to enhance medicines optimisation across Wansbeck Primary Care Network. This role focuses on patient care and support for care homes, using a multidisciplinary approach to deliver high-quality pharmacy services. Candidates will join a respected team with opportunities for professional development in a progressive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in general practice or as a pharmacy technician.
• Enthusiastic approach to medicines management.
• Ability to engage with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Support medicines optimisation across primary care networks.
• Enhance support for care homes and patients at transitions of care.
• Provide leadership in medicines management.

Skills

Medicines optimisation

Patient support

Leadership

Education

Pharmacy Technician Qualification

Job description

Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - Primary Care (Wansbeck Primary Care Network)

We have a great opportunity for pharmacy technicians wishing to develop their careers as part of our progressive team, with a national reputation for innovation and development. Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has a diverse and supportive clinical pharmacy team with a proven track record of providing high quality, patient-centred care. Our pharmacy technicians undertake patient-facing clinical roles, using their skills as part of a multidisciplinary team to support patients wherever they are across primary and secondary care (hospital, home or care home).

Our team offer you a unique clinical, patient-facing role that allows pharmacy technicians to develop or maintain skills within primary care. Full access to acute trust teams and resources will help to enable system wide approach to patient care, and designed around you to make the most of your skill set.

We are looking for an enthusiastic pharmacy technician to support medicines optimisation across Wansbeck Primary Care Network (Seaton Park Medical Group, Gables Medical Group, Guidepost Medical Group and Bedlingtonshire Medical Group) to help meet their population needs. This clinical patient-facing role will involve medicines optimisation stewardship, enhancing medicines support for care homes and their residents, supporting patients at transitions of care and providing medicines management support and leadership across the network.

You may already be a pharmacy technician working in general practice or an experienced pharmacy technician ready to take the next step in your career.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, as well as our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England.

In addition to acute hospital pharmacy services we provide pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to local primary care networks. We also deliver locally commissioned integrated pharmacy services to care homes, frailty, living well with pain and palliative care. We are one of the best performing NHS organisations in England, with a focus on staff experience as well as the experience of patients.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Steven Barrett Job title: Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Integrated Care Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0191 293 2729

Emma Bolton

Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Wansbeck PCN

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