# Part-time Pharmacy Technician

**Company**: Woodgrange Medical Practice
**Location**: London
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: Depending on experience
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a motivated, organised and patient-focused Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly and supportive GP practice team on a part-time basis.

The successful candidate will work closely with our GPs, Clinical Pharmacist and wider practice team to support safe and effective medicines management, improve prescribing processes and help patients get the best possible outcomes from their medicines.

**Main duties of the job**

- Process and manage repeat prescription requests in accordance with practice protocols.

- Undertake medicines reconciliation following hospital discharge and transfers of care.

- Support medication reviews and medicines optimisation under appropriate clinical supervision.

- Respond to routine medication queries from patients, practice staff and community pharmacies within the limits of competence.

- Identify and help resolve discrepancies in medication records.

- Support prescribing audits, patient safety initiatives and medicines-related quality improvement projects.

- Assist with monitoring and follow-up processes for patients taking high-risk medicines, in line with agreed protocols.

- Liaise with GPs, Clinical Pharmacists, community pharmacies and other healthcare professionals.

- Promote safe prescribing, reduce medicines waste and maintain accurate patient records.

- Maintain patient confidentiality and comply with practice policies and procedures.

**About us**

Woodgrange Medical Practice is an innovative and forward-looking practice. We have been recipients of several national awards such as the RCGPs best clinical innovation and Pulse magazine's diabetic clinical team of the year, runner-up.

**Benefits**

- A whole Practice lunch once a month

- Educational meetings every week with lectures provided by in house or external speakers

- Weekly clinical meetings to discuss hot topics, difficult cases and notices

**Person Specification**

- Qualifications:

+ Holds a recognised Pharmacy Technician qualification.   + Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).   + Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD).

- Experience:

+ Previous experience working in a GP practice or primary care setting.   + Experience of using EMIS Web or SystmOne.   + Experience of medicines reconciliation following hospital discharge.   + Experience supporting repeat prescription management and medication monitoring.

- Knowledge and Skills:

+ Knowledge of NHS primary care services and multidisciplinary team working.   + Understanding of local and national guidance relating to medicines optimisation.   + Familiarity with high-risk medication monitoring and medication safety processes.   + Ability to contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives.

## Skills

### Required
- Pharmacy Technician qualification
- General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) registration
- EMIS Web or SystmOne
- Medicines reconciliation
- Medication reviews
- Prescribing audits

### Nice to have
- Primary care pharmacy
- Medicines optimisation
- Clinical audits
- Quality improvement

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