Pharmacy Technician – Primary Care

NHS Scotland; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

NHS Scotland is seeking an experienced pharmacy technician to provide professional leadership and management within the primary care pharmacy team in Midlothian Health and Social Care Partnership. The post will work with advanced clinical pharmacists, leading service delivery and supporting the prescribing team.

The role requires autonomous work, strong team leadership, and developing the roles of technicians. PVG membership is required, and the post is part-time with pro-rata salary.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading pharmacy teams within a primary care setting.
• Knowledge of medicines management and prescribing developments.
• Ability to generate and manipulate data to inform prescribing initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional leadership and management as part of the primary care pharmacy team.
• Monitor and deliver medicines efficiencies programme for the partnership.
• Support the development of General Practice Pharmacy Technicians and Pre-registration Pharmacy Technicians.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Communication

Data analysis

Education

Pharmacy Technician registration

Tools

IT systems

Job description

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An opportunity has arisen for a suitably experienced pharmacy technician to provide professional leadership and management as part of the primary care pharmacy team in Midlothian Health and Social Care Partnership.

Supported by the Lead Pharmacy Technician NHS Lothian and Lead Pharmacist Midlothian Health and Social Care Partnership, the post holder will work alongside experienced advanced clinical pharmacists taking a lead role in service delivery whilst monitoring and delivery of the medicines efficiencies programme for the partnership.

This is a key role within the primary care prescribing team which requires strong team management and leadership skills as well as providing support to the multidisciplinary GP practice-based work. An important part of this post will be to further develop the role of the General Practice Pharmacy Technicians and Pre-registration Pharmacy Technicians and to identify training needs. The post requires the ability to work predominantly autonomously, being responsible for your own outcomes, and contributing to the prescribing support team objectives. This will require self‑direction, confidence and problem‑solving skills.

The post also requires good knowledge of medicines management and recent developments in prescribing work in GP practices. A flexible, adaptable approach is necessary with evidence of project and team work being advantageous. Good communication, organisational and IT skills along with the ability to work with patients and other healthcare professionals will also be necessary. Ability to both generate and manipulate data to inform and influence prescribing initiatives and influence executive colleagues is highly desirable.

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Please note: we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.

Please note: As this post is part‑time, the salary will be pro‑rate.

For further information on what is included in the role and what skills/experience are being looked for, click on the links at the bottom of the screen to the job description and person specification. If after reading this information you have any questions, please [e-mail] or [e-mail]

Reference: 259152

Contract Type: Permanent