Pharmacy Technician

Fairview Medical Centre; London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare organisation in London is seeking a Pharmacy Technician to join their supportive GP practice team. The role involves delivering patient-facing services, managing medications, and collaborating with healthcare professionals. Ideal candidates will be registered with the GPhC and have substantial experience in a pharmacy setting. This position offers flexible hours and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• 3 years post-qualification experience in a similar role.
• Experience in a busy pharmacy environment.
• Awareness of general practice and medicines agenda.

Responsibilities

• Deliver patient-facing roles for safe medicines use.
• Support medicines optimisation and reconciliation.
• Assist with clinical audits and quality improvement measures.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy knowledge

Excellent communication skills

Time management

Computer literate

Analytical skills

Education

Professional registration with GPhC

BTEC/NVQ level 3 in pharmaceutical sciences

Postgraduate qualifications in Medicines Management/Pharmacy Services

Job description

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly and supportive GP practice team.We are trying to meet an increased demand and also to provide flexibility with our existing staff for holidays and time off.

Main duties of the job

Job Summary

Pharmacy technicians core role responsibilities will cover clinical, technical and administrative categories.

Duties and Responsilitiess

Clinicala) Deliver patient-facing and supporting roles to ensure safe, effective medicines use through shared decision-making.b) Undertake medicines optimisation tasks such as checking inhaler technique, supporting medication reviews and reconciliation, and using consultation skills to help patients use medicines effectively.c) Support reviews and reconciliation for new care home patients, synchronise medicines during care transfers, liaise with community pharmacists, and refer to pharmacists for structured reviews.d) Provide specialist expertise (where competent) on public health and social care needs, including lifestyle advice, service information, and tackling health inequalities.e) Contribute to shared care protocols and liaise with specialist pharmacists for complex cases.f) Support antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate prescribing.

Technical & Administrativea) Work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to deliver efficient medicines optimisation, ordering, returns, and waste reduction.b) Provide training on safe, legal handling of medicines and support EPS implementation.c) Build relationships with pharmacy teams and wider healthcare colleagues to support integration across care settings.d) Supervise reception teams in sorting prescription requests, allowing GPs and pharmacists to focus on complex cases.

About us

We are a friendly, high performing, mid sized GP practice with an orientation towards training and development of medical staff. We have been established in Norbury for over 20 years and have many staff who have been trained in the practice and worked here for many years.

Job responsibilities

REPORTS TO: Practice Manager

HOURS: 20 hours per week

The role will also require pharmacy technicians to support the implementationof national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homesand other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertakingclinical audits (e.g. use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvementmeasures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework andenhanced services. In addition, pharmacy technicians will assist in thedelivery of medicines optimisation incentive schemes (e.g. medicinesswitches) and patient safety audits.

Pharmacy technicians will provide leadership for medicines managementsystems across PCNs, supporting practices with a range of services to get thebest value from medicines by encouraging and implementing ElectronicPrescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and timely monitoring andmanagement of high-risk medicines).

Person Specification

Qualifications

• - Professional registration with GPhC
• - BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences.
• - Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy
• technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy
• - Evidence of continued professional development (CPD)
• - Postgraduate qualifications of a relevant nature eg FdSc in
• Medicines Management/Pharmacy Services; BTEC Therapeutics.

Experience

• - Awareness of general practice and the agenda for medicines
• - 3 years postqualification experience
• - Experience of working in Primary Care
• - Experience of working in a busy environment and meeting
• deadlines
• - Good clinical pharmacy knowledge, including terminology
• Knowledge of pharmacy law and ethics.

Skills

• - Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data.
• - Computer literate and familiar with Microsoft Office packages.
• - Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
• - Effective time management (Planning & Organising) .
• - Ability to work as a team member and autonomously.
• - Good interpersonal skills.
• - Problem solving & analytical skills.
• - Ability to follow policy and procedure
• - Flexibility to work outside of core office hours.
• - Have a clean full drivers licence.

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.