Pharmacy Technician

NHS; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare practice located in Wakefield is seeking a part-time pharmacy technician to join its team. The role involves conducting medication reviews, providing medicines advice, and accommodating flexible working hours across 3-4 days a week. Ideal candidates will hold a Master's degree in pharmacy and have experience in a primary care setting. The practice offers opportunities for professional development and prioritizes patient care.

Benefits

Friendly practice team

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) required.
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development necessary.
• Independent Prescriber qualification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Undertake structured medication reviews.
• Provide professional specialist medicines advice to healthcare professionals.
• Action acute prescription requests and conduct medicines reconciliation.

Skills

Adaptable and quick to make relationships with new teams

Confident in own professional judgment

Excellent decision-making skills

Education

Master's degree in pharmacy or equivalent

Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy (or equivalent)

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Maybush Medical Centre is looking to recruit an experienced pharmacy technician to join our friendly practice team. This will be on a part time basis for approximately 25 hours per week. We can be flexible with the hours but ideally looking for 3-4 days per week

We are a successful practice with the highest standards of care. Maybush has approximately 9000 patients and are looking to increase the list site.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be undertaking structured medication reviews, improving medicine optimisation and safety, supporting care homes. Part of this role will also provide a safe and effective Pharmacy Service. To provide professional specialist medicines advice to GPs, Nurse Practitioners, Practice Nurses, Community Pharmacists, Community Nurses, and other health professionals to promote the safe, effective, and high quality, cost-effective use of medicines in all prescribing decisions for the benefit of the Practice's patients. You will also be actioning acute prescription requests and conducting medicines reconciliation.

** YOU MUST BE AVAILABLE TO ATTEND AN INTERVIEW ON FRIDAY 12th DECEMBER **

About us

The practice is located just on the outskirts of Wakefield city centre, and has ample free parking on site and good local transport links.

The practice operates from purpose-built premises. We a are SystmOne site.

Maybush is an accredited training practice for student nurses, GP's and medical students and offers opportunities to progress and develop, in both clinical and non-clinical capacities.

Job responsibilities

a full job description for this role can be found in the supporting documents section within this job advert

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Master's degree in pharmacy or equivalent
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development
• Independent Prescriber or willing to work towards
• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy (or equivalent)

Experience

• Evidence of working autonomously or as part of a team.
• Experience of communicating with other healthcare professionals and the general public.
• Experience of prioritising workload.
• Experience of using own initiative to solve problems.
• Evidence of personal leadership to improve the quality of care.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritise own workload and that of others
• Experience working in a primary care setting
• Understanding and knowledge of healthcare provision in GP practices, QOF, and PCN DES
• An appreciation of the new NHS landscape including the relationships between individual practices, PCNs and the commissioners
• Use of SystmOne

Knowledge and Skills

• Skill & aptitude
• Adaptable and quick to make relationships with new teams
• Flexible and cooperative
• Ability to identify risk and escalate appropriately
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Evidence of working autonomously or as part of a team
• Confident in own professional judgment and excellent decision-making skills
• Demonstrate ability to develop and maintain good working relations across multidisciplinary teamsAble to interpret complex clinical information and data on medicines to deliver face to face clinical care including managing a caseload
• Able to interpret complex clinical information and data on medicines to deliver face to face clinical care including managing a caseload

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.