Pharmacy Technician in Fairford

Hilary Cottage Surgery; Fairford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A local primary care surgery in Fairford seeks a skilled Pharmacy Technician to assist in delivering medicines optimisation and supporting patient care. The ideal candidate should have professional GPhC registration, experience in primary care, and good communication skills. This role provides an opportunity to work within a friendly, supportive team committed to the well-being of both staff and patients.

Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacy Technician with professional GPhC registration.
• Experience working as a qualified Pharmacy Technician in primary care, community, or hospital settings.
• Ability to work well independently and prioritize workload.

Responsibilities

• Process hospital discharge summaries and liaise with relevant teams.
• Advise on the monitoring of high-risk drugs and ensure patients attend for monitoring.
• Support clinical pharmacists with structured medication reviews.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Teamwork

Education

Professional registration with GPhC as a Pharmacy Technician

BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences

Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD)

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

We would like to welcome a skilled and motivated Pharmacy Technician into our Primary Care GP Practice.

Our current team includes 2 part time Clinical Pharmacists and 1 part time Pharmacy Technicians.

You will help deliver medicines optimisation, aid in the development of policies and deliver projects for the practice to help support the NHS to be sustainable for the future.

The current pharmacy team have come from a variety of employment backgrounds, all bringing different qualities andskills to the team. We are in regular contact both in person and using email, phone and online messaging.

Main duties of the job

Currently the Pharmacy Technician role in the Practice includes (but is not limited to) the following:

• processing hospital discharge summaries and liaising with patients, GP teams and community pharmacies to ensure any medicines changes and necessary reviews are carried out
• advising on the monitoring of high-risk drugs, and ensuring patients attend for appropriate routine monitoring
• optimisation of lipid-lowering therapy following well-defined protocols
• liaising with community pharmacies about dosette boxes and out of stock medications to ensure good patient care
• carrying out regular audits of pre-defined prescribing safety measures using the GP practice clinical system
• acting upon MHRA drug alerts and recalls in conjunction with the PCN pharmacy team, and communicating any outcomes with appropriate colleagues as necessary
• communicating with patients to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations
• supporting the clinical pharmacists to undertake structured medication reviews
• answering medication-related queries from patients and surgery/PCN colleagues

About us

We are in Fairford - a small rural town in Gloucestershire, close to the Oxfordshire and Wiltshire borders.

We are a friendly supportive team of around 35 people.

Hilary Cottage Surgery has been a part of the Fairford community for many years - currently run by 3 GP partners.

We are a small rural practice with around 7500 patients on our books. We have 7 amazing GPs, a bunch of amazing admin staff and secretaries, and a brilliant reception team. Our nurse team is fabulous, and there aren't enough superlatives to describe our incredible dispensing team, supported by our super pharmacists.

If you're not in Fairford, you would enjoy a short rural drive to and from the surgery - and if you are local you can walk to work.

With a focus on everyone's well-being at work, we are supportive and friendly from top to bottom, and (we think) a great place to work!

Job responsibilities

As a Pharmacy Technician in primary care, you will help patients get the best from their medicines. Effective medicines reconciliation upon transfer of care is an important part of the role, as well as offering support for patients whose medication may be in short supply, optimising the use of lipid-lowering therapy following well-defined protocols, carrying out regular audits of pre-defined prescribing safety measures and supporting non-clinical staff to improve the safety and efficiency of prescribing processes.

You must be motivated to work well independently and as part of a team, and recognise your limitations. Good attention to detail is essential and you must be able to effectively prioritise your workload and adapt to any work pressures and the needs of the practice.

See overview and person specification for further details.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional registration with GPhC as a Pharmacy Technician
• BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD)
• Willing to enrol on CPPE PCPEP if not already completed
• Prior completion of the CPPE PCPEP or equivalent pathway

Experience

• Experience of working as a qualified, registered Pharmacy Technician in primary care, community, prison or hospital pharmacy
• Experience of working in primary care
• Experience of working with the clinical programme SystmOne

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.