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Faversham, Kent, United Kingdom Newton Place Surgery Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a skilled and compassionate Pharmacy Technician to join our team at Newton Place Surgery. As a Pharmacy Technician, you will play a vital role in ensuring the safe and effective use of medicines for our patients.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide support to the prescription team to resolve day-to-day medicine issues.
  • Assist and advise clinicians on alternative medicines when notified items are unavailable.
  • Ensure MHRA alerts are acted upon and provide advice on medication changes, ensuring dissemination of information to the wider clinical team.
  • Complete audits around patient safety.
  • Undertake patient-facing and patient-supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
  • Conduct medicine optimization tasks, including effective medicine administration, checking inhaler technique, support medication reviews, and medicines reconciliation.
  • Support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronize medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking with local community pharmacists.
  • Provide specialist expertise to address both public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.
  • Provide training and support on the legal, safe, and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
  • Promote Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering, develop relationships with other pharmacy professionals and members of the multidisciplinary team to support integration across health and social care.
  • Create, review, and disseminate protocols when needed.
  • Manage shared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients. Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.
  • Assist in the delivery of medicines optimization 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.
  • Attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months, with progress reviewed on a regular basis to agree new objectives.
  • Assist with the investigation of complaints when required.
  • Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
  • Contribute to public health campaigns through advice or direct care.
  • Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area.
Person Specification

Essential

  • Working under appropriate clinical supervision to ensure safe, effective, and efficient use of medicines.
  • Experience working in a primary care setting.
  • Understanding and knowledge of healthcare provision in GP practices, QOF, and enhanced services.

Desirable

  • An appreciation of the new NHS landscape, including relationships between individual practices, PCNs, and commissioners.
  • Good clinical system IT knowledge of EMIS.

Skills

Essential

  • Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email, and face-to-face.
  • Knowledge of IT systems, including the ability to use word processing skills, emails, and the internet to create simple plans and reports.
  • Good personal organizational skills.
  • Effective time management.
  • Demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience, and work well under pressure.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
  • Meets the specific qualification and training requirements as specified by the GPhC criteria to register as a Pharmacy Technician.