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Job summary
Alliance for Better Care CIC is recruiting a pharmacy technician to support the Primary Care Network with medicines optimisation and safe prescribing across Burgess Hill & Villages PCN. The post involves working under supervision to develop professional skills and provide technical support within a multidisciplinary team.
You will contribute to repeat prescribing, medicines reconciliation, and ongoing pharmacist-led initiatives while engaging with community and hospital partners to improve
Qualifications
- Experience as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community, or hospital settings.
- UK Registration with GPhC is required.
- Good IT skills and ability to analyse prescribing data.
- Willingness to travel between sites as needed.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical support to the pharmacy service to ensure high professional standards and safe medicines optimisation.
- Support repeat prescribing and medicines reconciliation processes and liaise with clinicians and pharmacists.
- Assist in training administrators to support safe medicines handling and EPS implementation.
- Collaborate with PCN, community and hospital pharmacy teams to improve patient outcomes.
Skills
Education
Job description
The post holder will work across the practices with each of the practice teams and will be assigned a lead clinical and operational contact for each contract. This post is part of the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme for Primary Care Networks funded by NHS England and includes funded access to the Primary Care Pharmacy Education pathway pilot for pharmacy technicians. The ambition is to better utilise the role of pharmacy within primary care to pro-actively help patients stay safe and well and out of hospital as well as helping to reduce the demands on general practice. The post holder is a Pharmacy technician, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting pharmacists in general practice to ensure effective and efficient use of medicines. In this role they will be supervised by a pharmacist who will develop, manage and mentor them. The Pharmacy technicians core role responsibilities will cover clinical, and technical and administrative categories.
Please note that if we receive a high volume of applications, the advert may close early.
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and this role involves provision of technical support for the pharmacy service to ensure professional operational standards and excellence in pharmaceutical care and safety are maintained. The role will support the practices within Burgess Hill & Villages PCN to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and efficient systems for medicines related clinical correspondence; repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes. The post holder will support training and development of administrators to support safe, effective and efficient processes involving medicines with a particular focus on repeat prescribing processes and will also provide support to general practice staff and patients regarding prescription and medication queries. They will also help to develop and improve repeat prescribing & medicines reconciliation processes and systems for safer prescribing. The post holder will ensure that the service is integrated with community and hospital pharmacy to improve patient outcomes. The pharmacy technicians will work closely with the CCG Medicines Optimisation teams, community pharmacists and hospital pharmacy teams to support an integrated approach to prescribing and medicines optimisation which works towards shared goals.
Alliance for Better Care (ABC) is a GP Federation uniting 77 NHS GP member practices across 98 sites within 24 Primary Care Networks in Sussex and Surrey. We support our Primary Care colleagues and their patients to transform how healthcare is delivered in their communities. We work closely with GP Practices, PCNs, Hospitals, Community Organisations, and the Third Sector. These vital partnerships enable us to deliver a truly integrated approach that offers the support and expertise needed to effectively serve our populations.
Burgess Hill and Villages Primary Care Network is an NHS collaboration between four GP practices - Brow Medical Centre, Meadows Surgery, Mid Sussex Health Care and Silverdale Practice - working together to provide enhanced access services. Our surgery teams work closely, sharing expertise and resources to develop new services. Our vision is to continue to improve the quality of care that we provide in alignment with the needs of our patient population. Our PCN builds on the existing primary care services and enables a greater provision of proactive, personalised and more integrated health and social care. We are supported by practitioners in additional roles who allow us to create bespoke multi-disciplinary teams based on the needs of our local population. By working together with local community services, this allows us to make support available to people where it is most needed.
- Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients
- Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively
- As determined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies
- Support the Clinical Pharmacist in Structured Medication Reviews (SMR) i.e. organise necessary monitoring tests prior to SMR
- Provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities
- Manage shared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients
- Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally
- Support the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed
- Support medications reconciliation for patients when they are discharged from hospital
- Implement efficient ordering and return processes and reducing medication wastage
- Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)
- Promotion of Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering
- Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the multidisciplinary team to support integration across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and mental health
- Support practice reception teams in streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests
- Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings
- Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services
- Support the PCN in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC requirements
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Access to NHS pension
- Bespoke training programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced maternity pay
- NHS discounts
- Leadership Development Programme
- Salary sacrifice schemes technology and electric vehicle
- Opportunities for secondments
There are opportunities for a study leave allowance.
Regular supervisions on a one-to-one basis including an annual formal appraisal are held with a line manager. If you are in a patient-facing role, you will also receive regular Clinical Supervisions with a Clinical Supervisor.
You will receive an in-depth induction programme and will be invited to a face-to-face induction day within your first week to give you relevant information about the organisation and your job role.
Please see the full job description for further information.
- Computer literate with an ability to use Microsoft office packages
- Able to analyse and interpret prescribing data
- Has attention to detail, able to work accurately, identifying errors quickly and easily
- Able to effectively manage allocated resources
- Has a planned and organised approach with an ability to prioritise their own workload to meet strict deadlines
- Able to think analytically; anticipating obstacles and thinking ahead; using analytical techniques to draw logical solutions to problems
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with team members, patients, carers, and other healthcare professionals, whilst recognising peoples needs for alternative methods of communication
- Influencing and negotiating skills
- An excellent understanding of data protection and confidentiality issues
- Ability to use the required GP clinical systems
- Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community, or hospital pharmacy
- Evidence of continued professional development (CPD)
- Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities, and challenges
- Relevant theoretical and practical knowledge of Primary Care Networks, General Practice and evidence-based medicine
- Awareness of systems to support management of patients in a primary care setting, delivering pharmaceutical input and support in the context of pathways of care and the business of the organisation(s)
- Good clinical pharmacy knowledge including terminology
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for the improvement of prescribing
- Knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law, ethics and current legislation
- Understanding of NHS long term plan and priorities relevant to primary care
- Awareness of funding systems to enable GP clinical pharmacist services to assist delivery of PCN and NHS priorities and requirements for financial balance and quality
- Professional registration with GPhC
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
- Works effectively independently and as a member of a team
- Flexible approach to meet service needs and ensure a stakeholder focused response
- Self-motivated and proactive
- Continued commitment to improve skills and ability in new areas of work
- Able to undertake the demands of the post with reasonable adjustments if required
- Independently mobile to be able to work across several sites and travel to meet with stakeholders
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Demonstrate ability to work in a busy environment; ability to deal with both urgent and important tasks and to prioritise effectively whilst also supporting others
- Excellent time keeping and prioritisation skills
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Alliance for Better Care CIC
Hurstpierpoint Health Centre
Trinity Road
Hurstpierpoint
Hassocks
West Sussex
BN6 9UQ
United Kingdom
https://allianceforbettercare.org/ (Opens in a new tab)
Primary Care Network Coordinator
Shelley McComiskey
shelley.mccomiskey1@nhs.net
17 August 2026
Other
£27,496.89 to £34,188.93 a year
pro rata, depending on experience
Permanent
Full-time,
Part-time
B0141-26-0072
Hurstpierpoint Health Centre
Trinity Road
Hurstpierpoint
Hassocks
West Sussex
BN6 9UQ
United Kingdom
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