Job description
We expect the successful candidate to contribute to the delivery of a comprehensive primary care medicines management system acting on current best practice/service change requests from our clinical commissioning group. The pharmacy technician will be required to undertake activities predominantly at a practice level, but will need to be flexible to work to the wider demands of the network. For example, the role will involve liaising with community pharmacy teams to highlight and manage problems identified by community pharmacy, such as medicines waste. The post holder will: Support the role of PCN clinical pharmacists in the delivery of clinical pharmacy services; Perform medicines improvement work to maximise safe, cost-effective best practice in prescribing under the supervision of the GP or clinical pharmacist; Improve the use of medicines and help patients with medication adherence; Assist with medication safety monitoring systems (e.g.
high-risk drugs); Liaise with clinicians and administrative staff to resolve medicine-related queries; Monitor practice prescribing and adherence to practice, local and national prescribing policies; Improve services and quality through mechanisms such as adults.