Senior Pharmacy Technician - Primary Care Network and Acute Trust

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.