Pharmacy Technician

NHS; Folkestone; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare practice in Folkestone is seeking an experienced Pharmacy Technician to enhance patient care through effective medication management and support. This role includes improving prescribing practices, managing shared care protocols, and providing training on safe medication handling. Applicants must be registered with the GPhC and ideally have three years of related experience. Competitive compensation is offered.

Qualifications

• High standard of education with excellent literacy and numeracy skills.
• Meets specific GPhC qualification requirements as a Pharmacy Technician.
• Minimum of three years in a medicine oriented environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead improvements for safe and cost-effective prescribing.
• Manage shared care protocols for complex patients.
• Support practice reception teams in prescription requests.

Skills

Excellent literacy and numeracy skills

Computer literacy (e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel)

Experience with clinical systems (e.g., EMIS)

Ability to deal with medication-related queries

Education

Pharmacy Technician qualification

Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Job description

The White House Surgery are looking for an experienced Pharmacy Technician. Pharmacy Technicians play an important role, complementing clinical pharmacists, community pharmacists and other members of the surgery team. Pharmacy technicians core role responsibilities will cover clinical, technical and administrative categories.

Main duties of the job

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. The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practice, including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines. 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, carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation where required.

You will also manage shared care protocols and liaise with other team members for more complex patients.

You will also support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.

Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) and Electronic Repeat Dispensing (ERD)

Also supporting practice reception teams and prescription clerks in streaming general prescription requests.

About us

We are a friendly and busy General Practice approximately 12,000 Patients.

We are a well-established and dynamic team comprising of 3 GP and 1 non-GP Partner, Salaried GPs, ACPs, Pharmacy Technician, Physiotherapist, Practice Nurses and Healthcare Assistant who are well supported by an experienced administrative team.

We are part of the Folkestone, Hythe and Rural Primary Care Network (PCN) encompassing 7 local practices providing additional services to meet our patients needs in a holistic manner.

Job responsibilities

Job Description - Practice

• Acting as triage and support for repeat medicines queries
• To undertake medication-related audit
• Support in clinical guidance around specialist only, unlicensed and not recommended drugs
• Review high cost items
• Review high quantity dressing requests
• Review discharge notifications that have medication alteration
• Dealing with out of stock queries
• Dealing with medicines related complaints
• Where possible dealing with "difficult" prescriptions that need action by the GP
• Help clinicians work through Medicines Optimisation Scheme every year.
• Dealing with MHRA alerts and Supply Shortage of medicines.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• High standard of education with excellent literacy and numeracy skills.
• Is registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Meets the specific qualification and training requirements as specified by the GPhC criteria to register as a Pharmacy Technician.
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
• Pharmacy Technician or dispenser's qualification or previous experience preferred.
• Minimum of three years in a medicine orientated environment.
• Computer literacy - knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint and Clinical System e.g. EMIS.

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.