Primary Care Pharmacy Technician: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 29,970 - 36,483 £ / Year

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, committed, and motivated pharmacy technician to join our well established integrated primary care pharmacy team.

As a team we are committed to the development of primary care pharmacy. We have been established for over 20 years developing our services to meet the needs of our practices and patients in Dudley.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide medicines optimisation support activities including delivery of the Primary Care Network (PCN) DES, strategic PCN initiatives and our wider primary care pharmacy operational work plan. The post holder will contribute to safer patient care through provision of clinical audits, medication review and structured monitoring of high risk drug prescribing. The post holder will also act as an advisory resource to practices in relation to medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste, improving medicines adherence and repeat prescribing processes.

Prior experience of working in General Practice or a similar role would be ideal but not essential.

An initial induction programme will be offered as well as ongoing training and supervision working alongside clinical pharmacists and other pharmacy technicians within the team. We have a strong emphasis on team working, supporting each other to professionally develop and meet our key objective of improving the health and wellbeing of our local population.

Main duties of the job

The duties and responsibilities are intended to be indicative but not exhaustive of the responsibilities of the post holder. Working alongside colleagues we will develop flexible work programmes to meet the needs of our practices and population, as such the requirements of the job may develop and change over time.

The Primary Care Network Pharmacy Technician role provides an exciting opportunity to develop and use your skills in a patient-facing and non-patient facing environment. As a Pharmacy Technician, you will play an important role complementing our clinical pharmacists and other members of the PCN team.

The purpose of the role is to promote and support improvements to maximise safer, cost effective medicines use and evidence guided prescribing, help to develop processes and systems for safer repeat prescribing, reduce medicines waste and improve the quality of patient care.

You will undertake patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, carry out medicines optimisation tasks, clinical audit and medicines reconciliation to support our clinical pharmacists and the wider primary care team. The role will assist in delivery of our integrated work plan and incentive schemes.

If you are a self-motivated and enthusiastic registered pharmacy technician looking for a new challenge in primary care this could be an exciting opportunity for you.

About us

We are looking for exceptional individuals with the drive and enthusiasm to change how healthcare is delivered and make a real difference to the people we serve. Our vision is excellent healthcare and improved health for all.

With over 20 years of experience we are a well-established innovative team that is committed to the development of clinical pharmacy services in primary care working in collaboration with our local partners.

We provide support and development opportunities for our team and pride ourselves in allowing colleagues to flourish in their careers supporting their personal development whilst ensuring we make a positive contribution to improving the health of our population.

Our Organisation is committed to embracing diversity and we recognise the need to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities we serve to enable us to achieve our purpose and commitments.

We are embedding values based and inclusive recruitment practices to ensure that all applicants, from any backgrounds, have an equal chance of success in achieving a role with us.

Anyone that works with us will share in our commitments and promote and uphold them throughout their daily activities.

Although we support flexible working opportunities our primary care pharmacy technician roles are predominately practice based to ensure we are working closely with our practice colleagues and the wider multidisciplinary team.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

  • Current GPhC Registration
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Ability to work as part of a team
  • Proficient in the use of IT e.g. MS Office Outlook, Excel working with spread sheets and databases.

Desirable

  • Previous experience of working in a primary care role (General Practice)
  • Experience of prescribing/clinical systems such as EMIS
  • Previous experience working within a patient facing role

Essential

Essential

  • Qualifications
  • Current GPhC Registration
  • Skills
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Ability to work as part of a Team
  • Proficient in the use of IT eg MS Office Outlook, Excel working with spreadsheets and databases

Desirable

  • Experience
  • Previous Experience of working in a primary care role (General Practice)
  • Experience of prescribing/clinical systems such as EMIS

Experience

Essential

  • Current GPhC Registration
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Ability to work as part of a Team
  • Proficient inthe use of IT eg MS Office Outlook, Excel working with spreadsheets and databases

Desirable

  • Previous experiecne of working in a primary care role (General Practice)
  • Experience of prescribing /clinical systems such as EMIS

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 15 November 2024

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