pharmacy technician Guildford, England
Job description
The Fairlands Practice is looking for a qualified and motivated Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly team in the Guildford area. The Pharmacy Technician will support our dynamic multi- disciplinary team of doctors, nurses, ANPs, pharmacists, paramedics, social prescribers and mental health practitioners.
Please note job hours are flexible we are looking to recruit 1 full time equivalent so either 1 full time person or 2 part time people.
The Pharmacy Technician is responsible for providing excellent customer service to patients, and will play an active role in improving pharmacy administration. The post holder will undertake both patient-facing and administrative work to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reduction of medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes. The ideal candidate must be qualified as a pharmacy technician, with professional registration with GPhc, professional, friendly, and patient. Our pharmacy team is an important part of our organization and we are looking for individuals who want to make a difference.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Professional registration with GPhC - Essential
- BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences - Essential
- Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, hospital or community pharmacy -Essential
- Evidence of continued professional development (CPD) - Essential
- Experience of working in a GP Practice - Desirable
Skills & Knowledge:
- Accurate and detail orientated
- Good comunicationskills
- Computer literate
- Self motivated and pro active
- Good clinical pharmacy knowledge
- Strong understanding of date protection and confidentiality
Job description:
- Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration, supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation post-discharge and other transfers of care
- Process repeat medication requests, including conversion of acute requests to repeat medicines, changing quantities of medicines as required
- Promote Electronic Repeat Dispensing and online ordering as appropriate
- Implement efficient ordering and return processes and reduce medication wastage
- Work with clinical pharmacists to develop safe, effective and efficient systems for repeat prescribing
- Support the practice to deliver targets
- Monitor practice adherence to practice, local and national prescribing policies
- Act as a point of contact for both patients and colleagues with medication queries
- Undertake, participate and share outcomes of clinical audits to facilitate improvement
- Implement changes to medication that result from CAS/MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local/national guidance
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
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.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Salary: £12.00-£14.80 per hour
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Guildford, GU3 3NA: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Application question(s):
- DEAL BREAKER Please confirm that you have a BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences ?
- DEAL BREAKER Please confirm that you are GPhC registered?
Experience:
- Pharmacy: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
