About this role
Job summary
Botesdale Health Centre are looking for a professional, conscientious and highly effective Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly team on a part-time basis for 24 hours per week.
Working within their professional boundaries, the successful applicant will work alongside the clinical and dispensary team within the practice and the wider Blackbourne PCN. They will support the practice clinical teams with queries regarding medication from patients, complete audits regarding patient safety in the prescribing of medication and supports public health and screening programmes including immunisations and vaccination programmes whilst participating in quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient outcomes and reduce health inequalities.
Main duties of the job
Support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients. Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing. Assist in conducting prescribing audits, responding to national safety alerts (e.g., MHRA), and implementing Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) and prescribing incentive schemes. Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking clinical audits (e.g., use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services. Work with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage. Support practice dispensary team in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs to review the more clinically complex requests. Support medicines optimisation systems with a range of services.
About us
We are a rural GMS 10,000 patient surgery with 4 Partners, 5 salaried GPs and a fantastic clinical and practice team with an on-site dispensary. We are located in a modern, recently extended surgery with community nurses located on site as well as an X-ray suite and glorious surrounding countryside.
Job description Job responsibilities
To find out more information about this position, please see attached the job description and personal specification required.
Person Specification
Experience Essential
Strong experience in either a community pharmacy or a primary care setting Confident in analysing and presenting information to health professionals
Qualifications Essential
Registered pharmacy technician with the GPhC Diploma Level 3 in pharmacy services, or equivalent
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Primary Care Careers
Address Botesdale
Diss
Norfolk
IP22 1DW
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.eoeprimarycarecareers.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)