Pharmacy Technician in Milton Keynes

The role supports safe and effective medicines use across primary care by delivering patient-facing consultations, assisting with medication reviews, medicines reconciliation, and ensuring proper administration techniques.

Main duties of the job

• Working within the PCN multidisciplinary team, it contributes to medicines optimisation for care home residents, supports transfers of care, and provides public health advice to address local health inequalities.
• The position plays a key part in shared care protocols, antimicrobial stewardship, clinical audits, and the implementation of national prescribing guidance, including contributions to QOF and incentive schemes.
• It also helps streamline prescription workflows, reduce medicines waste, promote EPS and safe repeat prescribing, and ensure robust systems for high-risk medicines.
• The role includes training practice teams and building strong relationships with pharmacy colleagues across primary, community, secondary, and mental health care to enhance integrated medicines management.

Job responsibilities

• 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 (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews, and medicines reconciliation.
• Support, as determined by the PCN, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking with local community pharmacists.
• Provide specialist expertise, where competent, to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.
• Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients.
• Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.
• Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits.
• Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.
• Work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage.
• Supervise practice reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.
• Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems across PCNs, supporting practices with a range of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and implementing Electronic Prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines.
• Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
• Develop relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the multi-disciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health.

Person Specification

• GPhC registered pharmacy technician.
• BTEC/NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in pharmaceutical sciences.
• Ongoing CPD enrolled in, undertaking or qualified from, an approved training pathway.
• Experience processing prescription requests.
• Understanding of General Practice and evidence-based medicine.
• Awareness of NHS priorities and patient management systems.
• Good clinical pharmacy knowledge, terminology, law and ethics.
• Experience as a pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital settings.

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.