Pharmacy Technician - South East Shropshire PCN

Our Health Partnership; Bridgnorth; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare organization is seeking a pharmacy technician in Bridgnorth to improve patient care and prescribing practices. The role requires professional registration and experience in pharmacy. Ideal candidates will assist a multi-disciplinary team and work on enhancing medication processes in general practices. This position offers a salary range of £31,044 to £34,730 based on experience.

Benefits

Bank holidays off

Staff employee benefits through Vivup

Octopus electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme

Qualifications

• Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy.
• Evidence of continued professional development (CPD).
• Ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to improving prescribing practice and patient care.
• Help patients to get the best from their medicines.
• Work within clear protocols and guidance.

Education

BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences

Professional registration with GPhC

Expectation of undertaking CPPE Pathway qualification

Job description

The post holder is a pharmacytechnician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. They arerequired to act within their professional boundaries, supporting and workingalongside a multi-disciplinary team within general practice and a Primary CareNetwork (PCN).

Please note this role is for expanding our workforce and is not to replace any current roles.

Full and part time roles will be considered, but we are ideally looking for 30+ hours a week.

This is an on site role working at a practice within the South East Shropshire Primary Care Network (SES PCN) area (DY14, WV7, WV15, WV16, TF12, T13).

The successful candidate will be part ofa dynamic and forward-thinking pharmacy team employed by Our HealthPartnership. Professional Leadership will be provided by the ConsultantPharmacist at OHP along with the PCN Lead Pharmacist and their team ofclinical pharmacists.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will contribute to improving prescribing practice, patient care and deliver the Directed Enhanced Service PCN prescribing agenda. This includes improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practices within the PCN, promoting digitalisation, reducing medicines waste and minimising clinical risk associated with medicines taking.

The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines, operating within clear protocols and guidance. They will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice and PCN teams and promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments.

The post holder will work with all sectors of pharmacy across the health system and the wider OHP organisation to improve population health. Demonstrating improvement in patient outcomes and working to reduce health inequalities across the PCN contributing to improving the efficiency of general practice and delivering a best in class service.

About us

Our Health Partnership was set up by local GPs who are passionate about providing high quality primary care and using their time and skills effectively to benefit patients.

We are currently a GP partnership of 30 practices with 38 surgeries, serving around 280,000 patients in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Shropshire.

Benefits of joining Our Health Partnership (OHP)

• Bank holidays off
• Staff employee benefits through Vivup
• Octopus electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme.

Job responsibilities

All Pharmacy Technicians must work within their competencies and have professional indemnity for their role.

Please see attached Job Description/Person Specification for full details of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Expectation of undertaking CPPE Pathway qualification (If not already completed)
• Professional registration with GPhC.
• BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences.
• Evidence of continued professional development (CPD).
• Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy.
• Demonstrate ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of the respective merits of different options, innovations, new opportunities and challenges.
• Please see attached Person Specification for full details

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.

£31,044 to £34,730 a yearDependent on experience but will be based on this range