Description
The Pharmacy Technician will be an integral part of the general practice team, working within their professional boundaries under the supervision of the Senior Partner and Clinical Pharmacist. The role involves ensuring the safe, accurate, and timely supply of prescribed medication to patients, providing technical and administrative support to clinicians, and supporting public health and screening programmes.
Main Duties:
- Support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients.
- Promote antimicrobial stewardship and reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.
- Assist with medicines optimisation schemes, safety audits, and prescribing incentive programmes.
- Implement national prescribing policies through audits, quality improvement, QOF, and enhanced services.
- Work with multidisciplinary teams to improve medicines management, ordering, returns, and reduce waste.
- Help reception teams triage prescription requests, referring complex cases to GPs or Clinical Pharmacists.
- Promote electronic prescribing, safe repeat prescribing, and monitoring of high-risk medicines.
- Train staff in the safe and legal handling of medicines, including the Electronic Prescription Service.
- Build relationships across primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, mental health, and social care.
- Follow safeguarding policies for adults and children.
- Handle prescription queries and contribute to the practice team.
- Demonstrate initiative and problem-solving skills.
- Participate in audits, research, and quality improvement, updating practice protocols and guidelines.
- Support enhanced services, patient complaints, and learning from incidents and near misses.
- Complete mandatory training and induction.
- Contribute to clinical governance and attend annual appraisals to review objectives.
- Support public health campaigns, including flu vaccination clinics.
About Us: Yeading Medical Centre is an NHS general practice in Northolt, providing a wide range of healthcare services to the local community. The team consists of GPs, nurses, healthcare assistants, clinical pharmacists, physician associates, mental health practitioners, social prescribers, and reception and administrative staff who work collaboratively to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.
Benefits:
- Permanent contract
- Part-time, flexible working, home or remote working
Requirements:
- Experience working under appropriate clinical supervision to ensure safe, effective, and efficient use of medicines.
- Experience of working in a primary care setting.
- Understanding and knowledge of healthcare provision in GP practices, QOF, and enhanced services.
- An appreciation of the new NHS landscape, including the relationship between individual organisations, PCNs, and commissioners.
- Confirmation of registration 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.
- Enrolled in, undertaking, or qualified from an approved training pathway, e.g., the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH).