# Pharmacy Technician

**Company**: Addison Road Medical Practice
**Location**: Walthamstow
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: Negotiable
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a pharmacy technician to join our team for 20 hours a week on a fixed-term contract of 1 year. As a pharmacy technician, you will work flexibly across locations as part of a multidisciplinary team to support safe, effective, and efficient medicines optimisation.

The successful candidate will have completed or be undertaking the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP). Key responsibilities include:

- Supporting safe and efficient repeat prescribing processes

- Carrying out medicines reconciliation for discharges, outpatient letters, and new patient registrations

- Identifying and resolving discrepancies and liaising with pharmacists or GPs

- Promoting medicines synchronisation, NHS app usage, and encouraging patient adherence

- Maintaining MHRA alert and high-risk drug monitoring records

- Supporting safe prescribing and monitoring of high-risk medicines

- Undertaking regular spot checks for medicines storage and safety compliance

- Reviewing and updating SOPs and maintaining audit trails

- Supervising, mentoring, and assessing trainee pharmacy technicians

- Providing training and guidance to staff

- Leading or contributing to audits, quality improvement, and significant event reviews

- Providing advice and information to patients on safe medicine use

- Conducting patient clinics within scope

The organisation operates across seven GP practice sites, supporting a registered patient population of over 70,000 patients. We place a strong emphasis on career development and staff wellbeing.

**Person Specification:**

- Significant post-qualifying experience in medicines management, working as a registered pharmacy technician in general practice, community, or hospital pharmacy

- Understanding of prescribing systems, legislation, and medicines storage standards

- Excellent communication, IT, and organisational skills

- Experience working under pressure and meeting deadlines

- Adherence to GPhC code of conduct and professional standards

**Essential Requirements:**

- GPhC-registered Pharmacy Technician

- NVQ3 / BTEC Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent

- Commitment to CPD and completion of CPPE PCPEP pathway (if not already completed)

**Desirable Requirements:**

- GP surgery experience

- EMIS experience

- Experience of being involved in managing change

- Experience across multiple GP sites or PCNs

- Experience leading audits or governance checks

- Experience mentoring or supervising others

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## Skills

### Required
- CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway
- GPhC registration
- Medicines management
- Prescribing systems
- Legislation
- Medicines storage standards
- Communication
- IT
- Organisation

### Nice to have
- GP surgery experience
- EMIS experience
- Change management
- Audits
- Governance checks
- Mentoring
- Supervision

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