Pharmacist Technician London, England
Job description
About us
We are professional, agile, innovative, and our goal is to Provide outstanding patient care.
Our work environment includes:
- Modern office setting
- Food provided
Portland Medical Centre
Pharmacist Technician
Salary: Annual £27.000 - £30.000 FtE depending on experience
Job summary
We are looking to recruit a skilled, experienced and enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician to join our Practice in SE25. You will work with our practice staff and pharmacist team to ensure safe, accurate and timely supply of prescribed medication. We are ideally looking to recruit full time but will consider flexible/part-time hours.
We prefer you to work hybrid working with some time at the practice, but would consider a 100% remote working agreement.
Main duties of the job
Being part of the Pharmacist team consists of 7 members, 6 Pharmacists and 1 technician. You will be the 2nd technician.
You will provide support to our multidisciplinary team including GPs, Clinical Pharmacists, Paramedics, other clinical staff and reception teams, coordinating discharge summaries and medication reviews, playing a central role in repeat prescribing processes, liaising with our patients, nursing homes, carers, hospital and community pharmacies, responding to medication queries and updating medical records. Data quality checks and audit on prescribing may also be included.
About us
We are a 14800 patient training practice in South West London ICB which caters for both Trainee GP's, Pre-reg pharmacists, Paramedics and Student Nurses. We have been nominated for the GP awards best GP team of the year in 2021 and developed one of the most efficient patient access and management systems in the country.
· Well known for being an innovative, future orientated team.
· We focus on staff welfare.
· MDT focused - Pharmacists, Paramedics, Physician Associates, Physiotherapists, Nurses and Health Care Assistants.
· National HSJ Award finalists in 2019 for our Digital Front Door.
· National General Practice Award finalists in 2021 for Team of the Year.
· List Size 14800 High QOF Achievements CQC Rated Good
· EMIS WEB Clinical System & Docman 10
· We support remote working.
We have Close ties to other members of the Primary Care Team in Croydon and strong active links with our PCN Practices.
Job responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the Pharmacy Technician. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels. The pharmacy technician will work within their scope of clinical practice and:
Responding to prescription requests from community patients, nursing/care home staff, pharmacy staff and GPs, processing them within 48 hours for routine prescriptions and same day for urgent prescriptions. This can include re-routing prescriptions to out of hours pharmacies.
Process monthly prescriptions for nursing/care homes, checking for changes and adherence/over-ordering issues.
Use practice and CCG templates to record near patient monitoring for high risk drugs.
Identify blood tests, recalls and reviews using established protocols and forward these to the appropriate clinician.
Support and respond to medicines related queries from medical and nursing colleagues and from patients and relatives both face to face, via phone or via email. Queries can include issues with interactions or ADRs, availability of stock, swallowing difficulties, cost-effectiveness, urgent requests or extra supplies.
Review hospital discharge notifications and outpatient hospital letters and reconcile medication against current repeats, flagging up and correcting discrepancies.
Promote safe use of medication, reporting of medicines related incidents and pro-actively preventing safeguarding incidents.
Support the practice team with Chronic Disease management.
Support the review of care home procedures, making recommendations for potential improvements.
Observe the principles of clinical governance when developing policies, protocols, guidelines, SOPs and procedures.
Support practice prescribing budgets by on-going monitoring, audit and analysis of drug use and support practices in reviewing, developing and enhancing cost-effective prescribing. This includes staying aware of latest QIPP and other cost targets.
Help review medication with the pharmacists and make recommendations for prescribing changes to improve outcome and ensure prescribing of the most cost-effective product.
Use knowledge of GP computer prescribing systems and community pharmacy dispensing systems to advise on solving problems related to prescribing/dispensing and other areas to develop the skills of practice and pharmacy staff.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
NVQ Level 3 Diploma in Pharmacy Service Skills (QCF) plus Level 3 QCF Diploma in Pharmaceutical Science or GPhC accredited equivalent prior to July 2011
Desirable
2 years post-qualification experience.
Experience of dealing with a range of clinical conditions
Primary Care experience
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.
Salary: £27,000.00-£30,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Flexitime
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Ability to commute/relocate:
- London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London
