Pharmacy Technician in Leiston

Leiston Surgery is a friendly, innovative and well-organised surgery that is looking to recruit a full/part time Pharmacy Technician to enhance their clinical team. This post offers an exciting opportunity to make a real impact in primary care and develop professionally within a collaborative and patient-focused environment. The doctors and staff aspire to provide traditional family medicine and the highest quality of care. The Leiston Surgery boasts a friendly and supportive atmosphere, creating a strong team spirit.

The Clinical Team currently consists of three Salaried GPs, two Physician Associates, two Practice Nurses, one Nurse Associate, three Health Care Assistants, Clinical Pharmacists, Social Prescribing Team, Physiotherapists and a Mental Health Link Worker. In the position of Pharmacy Technician you will provide specialist pharmaceutical technical services, professional advice and direct support to clinical/non-clinical practice staff and to our patients. You will participate in maintaining medicines optimisation activity within the practice to improve patient care in relation to all aspects of medicines and their impact.

Main duties of the job include:

• Working within clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management.
• Providing structured medication reviews and managing long term conditions.
• Managing medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing.
• Managing repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription requests.
• Completing audits around medicine management and attending ICB and Meds management meetings.
• Reviewing and updating practice policies and protocols and supporting the busy Dispensary team.

Promote equality, diversity, and inclusion in all aspects of work. Adhere to the principles of openness, transparency, and candour. Maintain appropriate safeguarding knowledge and comply with all relevant policies.

The post holder will perform medication reviews of patients, especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities. The post holder will provide support on quality improvement and clinical audit as well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.

About us: We are seeking an enthusiastic and forward-thinking Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly and professional team at Leiston Surgery. The practice has a very strong interest in medical education and is an accredited centre for training GP registrars and PA students, as well as medical students from Cambridge University, Norwich Medical School and University College London. The Surgery is located in the town of Leiston, on the Suffolk Coast. We have a branch surgery in the nearby village of Yoxford. The practice looks after approximately 9,300 patients - with high patient satisfaction ratings and an ever-increasing practice list size. We provide a full range of primary health services, including minor surgery, child health care, maternity services, phlebotomy, diabetic clinics, respiratory services, women's health, contraception services, travel clinics and mental health services.

Job responsibilities include:

• Working with a team of GPs, pharmacists, technicians, practice nurses, social prescribers, physiotherapists and registrars/students.
• Liaising with clinicians and administrative staff to resolve medicines-related queries.
• Monitoring practice prescribing and adherence to local and national prescribing policies.
• Improving service and quality through mechanisms such as audit.
• Working with patients and their carers to get the best from their medicines, improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practice, including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.

Person Specification:

Qualifications: The post holder will be required to have an NVQ level 3 in Pharmaceutical Services (or equivalent) and be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). Strong IT skills including Microsoft Office, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, attention to detail and high level of accuracy, ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively, understanding of data protection, confidentiality, and safeguarding principles, GP clinical systems IT skills, and awareness of current NHS priorities in primary care medicines optimisation.

Experience: Experience working as a qualified, registered Pharmacy Technician, experience of working in primary care or general practice, experience of using GP clinical systems and analysing prescribing data.

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.