Primary Care Pharmacy Technician – Medicines Optimisation

Primary Integrated Community Services Ltd; Gedling; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Flexible work-life balance

Free parking

Education opportunities

Multi-disciplinary team support

Cycle to work scheme

Staff wellbeing programs

Job summary

Primary Integrated Community Services Ltd is seeking a Pharmacy Technician to join the Arrow Health PCN in Nottinghamshire. This permanent, full‑time role supports safe, effective and cost‑efficient medicines use and helps improve repeat prescribing within a district‑wide primary care transformation programme.

You will work alongside Clinical Pharmacists, GPs and other health professionals to promote best practice, support medicines optimisation, reduce waste and promote safer prescribing, while

Qualifications

• Professional registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Accredited pharmacy technician course completed.
• Awareness of systems to support management of patients in a primary care setting.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 Structure 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.
• 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 multi‑disciplinary 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.

Skills

General Pharmaceutical Council

Accredited technician course

Primary care awareness

Job description

Primary Integrated Community Services Ltd is seeking a Pharmacy Technician to join the Arrow Health PCN in Nottinghamshire. This permanent, full‑time role supports safe, effective and cost‑efficient medicines use and helps improve repeat prescribing within a district‑wide primary care transformation programme.

You will work alongside Clinical Pharmacists, GPs and other health professionals to promote best practice, support medicines optimisation, reduce waste and promote safer prescribing, while