Pharmacy Technician in Sheffield

We are looking for a motivated and experienced Pharmacy Technician to join our healthcare team in Sheffield. This is a unique opportunity to work in a great team and deliver high-quality medicines management services to our population.

As a key member of the multidisciplinary team, you will be responsible for the safe and effective administration of medication, supporting our medical staff with expert advice and guidance. You will play a central role in medicines reconciliation, prescription checking, and stock management, ensuring compliance with departmental policies and national guidelines.

This role requires a proactive and compassionate individual who can work independently and collaboratively, with a strong focus on patient safety, communication, and service improvement.

25 hours per week Monday - Friday (would consider 9.30-2.30)

£15.00 per hour

5 weeks annual leave plus bank holidays

1 week study leave

Main duties of the job:

• Technicians provide support to GPs to reduce workload and respond to patient and staff queries.
• The post-holder will maximise safe, cost-effective prescribing to enhance the quality of patient care, improving repeat prescribing processes, minimising clinical risk, and reducing avoidable wasted medicines.
• The post-holder will help patients get the best from their medicines, use existing protocols to maximise cost-effective preparations and liaise with patients to improve compliance and concordance.

About us:

Sloan Medical Centre has a fantastic new job opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician within our medical centre. You will become a valued member of our primary care team, focused on providing proactive, personalised, co-ordinated, and integrated health and social care to our patient population.

We have a list size of 14,000 patients over two sites, 12 GPs and a fantastic nursing team.

Job responsibilities:

The purpose of the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost-effective best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care. The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching medications, improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practice, including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.

In addition, the post holder will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation and promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments.

This will involve assisting the PCN in achieving national requirements, NICE implementation and utilisation of medicines optimisation initiatives.

Clinical:

• Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
• Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration, supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation.
• Support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings.
• Provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.
• Manage shared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients.
• Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.

Technical and Administrative:

• Support the multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.
• Implement efficient ordering and return processes and reducing medication wastage.
• Promotion of Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering.
• Develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the multi-disciplinary team to support integration across health and social care.
• Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.

General:

• Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity.
• Ensure the principles of openness, transparency and candour are observed and upheld in all working practices.
• Ensure that any infection prevention and control issues are reported to the line manager/Infection Prevention and Control.

Equality and diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues.

Person Specification:

Experience:

• Experience working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician.
• Experience of working in primary care.

Qualifications:

• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacy Technician.
• BTEC/NVQ3 Pharmacy services (or equivalent).

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.