Laboratory Technician jobs in United Kingdom

• Posting Date: 30 May 2024
• Salary: £27,000.00 to £29,000.00 per year
• Additional Salary Information: £27,000.00 – £29,000.00 a year
• Hours: Full-time
• Closing Date: 30 June 2024
• Location: Wirral, CH49 0AB
• Company: NHS Jobs
• Job Type: Permanent
• Job Reference: A3984-24-0012

As a Pharmacy Technician, you will play a crucial role in supporting patient care and optimizing the use of medicines. This position offers a fulfilling opportunity to engage directly with patients, ensuring they understand and effectively manage their medications.

• Patient Interaction: Engage in shared decision-making conversations to promote effective medicine use.
• Medicines Optimization: Perform tasks such as verifying proper inhaler techniques, assisting with medication reviews, and ensuring accurate medicines reconciliation.
• Consultation Skills: Utilize your consultation skills to collaborate with patients, ensuring they use their medications effectively.

• Care Home Support: Facilitate medication reviews and reconciliation for new care home residents, and synchronize medicines for patients transitioning between care settings in collaboration with local community pharmacies.
• Support Clinical Pharmacists: Assist in organizing necessary monitoring tests for Structured Medication Reviews (SMR).

• Expert Advice: Provide valuable public health and social care advice, including lifestyle guidance and service information, helping address local health inequalities.
• Shared Care Protocols: Manage shared care protocols and work with Clinical Pharmacists to handle more complex patient cases.

• Commissioned Services: Support the Primary Care Network (PCN) in delivering on Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), Impact and Investment Fund (IIF), and other locally commissioned enhanced services.

To apply for this rewarding role, visit the NHS Jobs website and reference job number A3984-24-0012. This is a permanent, full-time position based in Wirral, with a competitive salary range of £27,000 to £29,000 per year. Don’t miss the opportunity to make a significant impact on patient care and public health. Apply by 30 June 2024.