Pharmacy Technician role at GP Practice
Holbrooks Health Team is a community-focused healthcare organization based at 71-77 Wheelwright Lane in Coventry, United Kingdom.
We are currently looking for a driven and dedicated Pharmacy technician to join Holbrooks Health Team. If you’re excited by the prospect of tackling new challenges, collaborating with a dynamic team, and helping shape the future of our organisation, we would love to hear from you.
As a GP practice pharmacy technicians, you will work under the supervision of our GPs, will be a registered healthcare professional who is responsible and accountable for their own accurate and safe practice. You will receive ongoing training and development about all aspects of practice based prescribing and effective administration.
In this position, you will support patients to get the most from their medicines through EPS requests within EMIS Web, AccuRx driven interactions including medication reviews and protocol-led switches, while improving repeat prescribing and promoting initiatives to reduce risk and medicines waste.
Skills & Qualifications
- Current registration as a Pharmacy Technician with the appropriate regulatory body, and compliance with continuing professional development requirements.
- Strong customer service skills, with the ability to communicate clearly, handle patient inquiries professionally, and maintain confidentiality.
- Solid understanding of pharmacy best practices, medicines management, and health and safety procedures.
- Practical experience in a pharmacy setting, including working as or alongside pharmacy technicians and supporting pharmacists in daily operations.
Main duties of the job
- Review EPS requests within EMIS Web to support practice in streaming general prescription requests and allow GPs to prescribe safely.
- and will support the practice in providing medication reviews and achieving Quality Prescribing and Medicines Service (QPMS) and Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) targets.
- Promotion of two-monthly Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) and online ordering.
- Support the practice multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.
- Implement efficient ordering and return processes and reducing medication wastage.
- Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.
- Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making, including AccuRx driven interactions with patients.
- As determined by the practice, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new patients, including care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies.
Pay & Work Arrangements
Pay is negotiable
Work pattern: Onsite, part-time 20-25 Hrs per week.
Pay: From £28,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company car
- Company events
- Employee discount
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Store discount
Work Location: In person
