Pharmacy Technician

The Pharmacy Technician (PT) occupies an important role to assist patients, doctors and administrative staff in providing an efficient, effective and safe prescribing system. This is facilitated in a number of different ways.

As the PT is a non-prescriber, all prescription issue responsibility resides with the prescriber (usually a GP) who signs a particular prescription. The PT is to be supported by the GP Prescribing Lead.

The PT will review clinic letters and hospital discharge summaries for changes to medication, either new medication added, or medication discontinued. It is also expected that any monitoring requirements arising from a secondary care letter will be noted. A number of medications have shared-care protocols outlining monitoring requirements, any new shared-care arrangement should be agreed by a GP familiar with the shared care protocol .

Read codes are often used to add a patient to a particular monitoring register.

Monitor Medication Review Date's

CAS Alerts

The PT will be responsible for actioning alerts from the MHRA or other relevant bodies and updating the excel sheet located on the L DRIVE.

Total Triage

The PT will be assisting the GPs on call with any medication-related queries on the day.

Training

The PT would need to be happy to enrol on the the CPPE pharmacy education pathway or have already completed this.

Care Home Visits

The PT would be visiting one of the two care homes we look after to take their monthly medication orders.

Firth Park is an inner-city practice, serving the local community of the S4 & S5 area.

Our Mission statement is to offer high-quality equitable sustainable community-based healthcare.

Firth Park Surgery cares for over 10,000 patients, with a rich global cultural heritage. This is supported by an interpreter team and our bilingual staff.

Both formal and informal communication is an important part of the way our practice runs.

We pride ourselves on delivering excellent patient care and supporting trainee student from all disciplines. The practice has a long history of supporting staff development and facilitating professional aspirations.

The Role of the Pharmacy Technician at Firth Park Surgery needs to be registered with the GPHC. Experience of working in primary care and System 1 are desirable but training will be provided for the right candidate.

The Pharmacy Technician (PT) occupies an important role to assist patients, doctors and administrative staff in providing an efficient, effective and safe prescribing system. This is facilitated in a number of different ways.

Please note the hours for this role are negotiable we are open to 1 full time or two part time members.

• Qualified pharmacy technician who would need to be registered with the Gphc

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.