Pharmacy Technician (Part-time) in Neath

We are seeking a highly motivated and ambitious Part Time Pharmacy Technician to join our multidisciplinary practice team. The practice recognises and values the attributes and skills that pharmacy professionals offer to General Practice, and the successful applicant will complement the existing 2 Practice Pharmacy Technicians, Prescribing Clerk, Cluster Pharmacist, and Cluster Pharmacy Technician.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician with aspirations to work within General Practice. You will join an established team and play an integral role in ensuring the practice prescribes safely and appropriately for its patients, whilst being afforded the opportunity and support to challenge yourself in new clinical areas.

We are a large and busy GP practice; as such, the successful applicant must be able to work effectively under pressure, maintaining accuracy and quality throughout. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate a high level of counselling, interpersonal, and communication skills. They will have experience of working in a patient-facing role and possess the confidence and desire to keep evolving their practice, knowledge, and skills. Previous experience of working within a Primary care setting would be preferred.

Main duties of the job include:

• Medicines reconciliation post discharge and on other transfers of care, ensuring recommendations are within local guidelines/formularies and not conflicting with existing medication.
• Undertake individual assessments of patients and identify their medicines management needs.
• Ensure effective liaison with colleagues across health and social care to establish a suitable level of assistance.
• Undertake medication use reviews, identifying and finding solutions for non-compliance.
• Demonstrate a sound understanding of the needs of frail, older, and vulnerable people, including those with disabilities, and promote their independence with regards to medicines management.
• Review and reauthorise repeat prescriptions within own competence and as per practice protocols.
• Day-to-day handling of prescription queries within area of own competence.
• Assess the suitability of requests for acute prescriptions within own competence and per practice protocols.
• Targeted medication reviews in line with practice protocols.
• Counselling patients on new medicines, such as DOAC initiations.
• Manage complicated medication regimes, ensuring patients manage these safely through counselling.
• Identify suitable alternatives for medicines that are unavailable.
• Manage serious out of stock notices proactively to avoid any delays or breaks in therapy for patients.
• Provide education to patients and their carers regarding medicines management.
• Work closely with palliative and community nurses to ensure requests for medication are dealt with in a timely manner.
• Assist GPs in prescribing syringe driver and just-in-case medication.
• Delivery of training and development to practice-based prescribing clerks and administrators.
• Provide direct support and advice to GPs, ANP, and other health professionals.
• Promote cost-effective, safe, evidence-based prescribing in accordance with national and local guidance.
• Participate in practice meetings and contribute to any prescribing issues.
• Contribute to the review and development of repeat prescribing protocols.
• Liaise with other pharmacy stakeholders.
• Handle information which may be sensitive, complex, or confidential appropriately.
• Be responsible for managing own workload and prioritising as necessary.
• Utilise GP practice clinical systems to conduct prescribing audits.
• Undertake, participate, and share the outcomes of clinical audits.
• Ensure that all major MHRA drug alerts are acted upon within an appropriate time frame.
• Undertake training and development to ensure the required knowledge and skills for practice-based work.

Person Specification:

• Qualifications: General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) Reg PharmTech.
• Experience: Previous experience preferred of working in a Primary care setting.

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.