Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Pharmacy Technician to join our Integrated Pharmacy workforce providing a service Brighter Birkenhead PCN.
This PCN is a group of 6 GP practices working together to provide joined up services to support their patients to live happier, healthier lives. You will join an experienced and dynamic team that includes GPs, Nurses, Health & Wellbeing Coaches, Care Coordinators, Social Prescribers & Physiotherapists to provide clinical pharmacy services to our local population.
We have embraced collaboration to achieve a system wide overview of the patients’ medicines journey. This helps you identify how processes can be improved when patients move between care settings and become part of the system wide pharmacy family. You will be supported to complete the CPPE pathway.
Main duties of the job
The role will support the PCN clinical pharmacists to ensure the delivery of safe, effective systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes:
- Be responsible for the development of a better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams and promote good practice in line with clinical and operational guidelines.
- Perform medicines reconciliation for patients discharged from hospital including counselling on medicines use and referral to other clinicians as necessary.
- Communicate with a wide range of healthcare professionals within the trusts, practices and other services such as care home staff.
- Build strong relationships with community pharmacy colleague.
- Support patients with their medication and provide advice regarding benefits, risks and side effects.
- Support improvements in patient care and the development of integrated pathways across primary and secondary care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job overview and attached job description for further information about the role.
We would require the successful candidate to work solely in primary care and so welcome applications from candidates from a primary care or community pharmacy background.
Person specification
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Methodical with attention to detail
- Conscientious and reliable
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Interpret and dispense prescriptions accurately
- Good written communication skills
- Word processing, e-mail, accurate data entry skills
- Effectively provide advice to patients regarding medicines
- IT literate
- Commitment to Continuing Professional Development
Qualifications, Experience and Training
Essential
- NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences/BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent.
- Must be registered with General Pharmaceutical Council of Great Britain.
- Working in a pharmacy.
- Pharmacy labelling and stock control systems.
Desirable
- Accredited Accuracy Checker
- Primary Care pharmacy experience
- Use of EMIS Clinical system
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This advert is for Senior Pharmacy Technician - Primary Care Network and Acute Trust with Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Wirral, North West, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Pharmacy technician role. The advertised salary is £32,073 - £39,043 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 29 Jul 2026.
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