Pharmacy Technician - Gp Practice

The Reddish Family Practice; Stockport; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

The Reddish Family Practice in Stockport is seeking an enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician to join a growing multidisciplinary team within general practice. You will support medicines optimisation, repeat prescribing, chronic disease management and medication safety with line management and support from our Clinical Lead Pharmacist Partner.

Based across five days with some hybrid working, you will handle medicines changes after hospital discharge, support repeat prescribing, undertake medicines

Qualifications

• Knowledge of medicines management and patient safety.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Positive attitude and ability to learn and adapt to new projects/skills.
• Reliable, personable and able to work as part of a busy multidisciplinary team to deadlines.
• Demonstrate empathy and professional behaviour with patients.

Responsibilities

• Process medication changes following hospital discharge communications.
• Support repeat prescribing and repeat dispensing systems.
• Undertake medicines reconciliation and medication reviews within competence.
• Respond to patient medication queries.
• Support chronic disease management and inhaler technique assessments.
• Maintain accurate patient records and undertake prescribing audits.
• Support annual vaccination programmes.
• Support with quality improvement projects and clinical audit.

Skills

Knowledge of medicines management

Excellent communication

Organisational skills

Empathy and professional behaviour

Accuracy and attention to detail

GP Practice experience

Education

GPhC Registered Pharmacy Technician

Level 3 Pharmacy Technician

GCSE English and Maths

Tools

EmisWeb

Docman

AccuRx

Job description

Job summary

The Reddish Family Practice is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Pharmacy Technician to join our growing multidisciplinary team within general practice.

The successful applicant will support medicines optimisation, repeat prescribing, chronic disease management and medication safety with line management and support from our Clinical Lead Pharmacist Partner.

Main duties of the job

• Process medication changes following hospital discharge communications
• Support repeat prescribing and repeat dispensing systems
• Undertake medicines reconciliation and medication reviews within competence
• Respond to patient medication queries
• Support chronic disease management and inhaler technique assessments
• Maintain accurate patient records and undertake prescribing audits
• Support annual vaccination programmes
• Support with quality improvement projects and clinical audit

About us

Based in Stockport, near to the Reddish Vale Country Park, and easily accessible from the M60, the Reddish Family Practice serves a diverse population of around 11,500 patients across 2 sites.

The successful candidate will be supported by a friendly multi-disciplinary team comprising 5 Partners, Salaried GPs, Nursing, Management and admin team. Our employed staff are complemented by PCN support roles including the Stockport Integrated Pharmacy Service (SIPS) Team, First Contact Practitioners, Mental Health nurses and Care Coordinators.

We are a GP training practice and support staff development. We hold regular clinical team meetings, and regular staff training days to support Quality improvement and learning across the practice.

The practice embraces digital innovation and quality improvement in order to respond to the changing environment and in outside of the healthcare sector. We are also a Veteran Friendly Practice and are working towards the Silver Pride in Practice award.

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Job responsibilities

The Pharmacy Tech role will mainly be based in practice across 5 days, but some hybrid working may be available.

Key duties and areas of responsibility -

• Process medication changes following hospital discharge communications.
• Support repeat prescribing and repeat dispensing systems.
• Undertake medicines reconciliation and medication reviews within competence.
• Respond to patient medication queries.
• Support chronic disease management and inhaler technique assessments.
• Maintain accurate patient records and undertake prescribing audits.
• Support annual vaccination programmes.
• Support with quality improvement projects and clinical audit.

Essential experience

• Knowledge of medicines management and patient safety.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Positive attitude and ability to learn and adapt to new projects / skills.
• Reliable, personable and able to work as part of a busy multidisciplinary team to deadlines.
• Demonstrate empathy and professional behaviour with patients.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience of working in a GP Practice.

Desirable experience

• Experience of using EmisWeb, Docman and AccuRx software.
• Medicines Optimisation experience.

Essential qualifications

• GPhC Registered Pharmacy Technician.
• Qualified to Level 3 Pharmacy Technician.
• GCSE Grade 4 (A-C) or above in English and Maths.

Desirable qualifications

• Maintain GPhC registration.
• Participate in CPD, appraisal and mandatory training.
• Work within professional and legal standards.

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.

Contact

Operations Manager: Robert McDermott, [e-mail], 01619839797

Closing date

01 November 2026