Pharmacy Technician- Primary Care Network

PASSIONATE ABOUT HEALTH COMPASSIONATE WITH PEOPLE

Our vision is to be a bold and innovative general practice which is integrated in the community and delivers quality care in partnership with our patients.

All members of the SCGP team are dedicated to providing a quality service in order to achieve safe health services, which meet patient needs.

Good general practice is based on good doctor and patient relationships requiring trust and mutual respect. We believe this is basic to good patient care. We work in a partnership with our patients.

Reporting to: PCN Lead Clinical Pharmacist

Hours:

Full time

Sutton Coldfield Group Practice (SCGP) Primary Care Network consists of a single merged innovative practice on a single IT system. We pride ourselves on providing high quality patient centered care by a well-supported team of staff with a focus on a culture of continued learning and improvement.

We span six sites within a five mile radius and cover 52,000 patients.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated Pharmacy Technician with a minimum of 2 years experience to join our existing PCNpharmacy team.

Please ensure that your CV includes your personal email address and telephone number to help us contact you efficiently during the recruitment process.

Support the PCN Clinical pharmacists inthe delivery of clinical pharmacy services.

Liaise with clinicians and administrative staff to resolve medicines-related queries

Monitor practice prescribing and adherence to local and national prescribing policies

Improve service and quality through mechanisms such as audit

SCGP sites within our PCN include:

Ley Hill, 228 Lichfield Road, B74 2UE

Sutton Park, 34 Chester Rd N, B73 6SP

Vesey, 61 Holland Rd, B72 1RL

If upon you joining SCGP (Sutton Coldfield Group Practice), you are currently a patient at one of the SCGP practices, you will be asked to transfer to a different practice. During your probation, unless there is no other alternative available for you, you will be expected to transfer to another practice to ensure that you are not treated by a colleague.

Pharmacy technicians play an increasingly important role in complementing clinical pharmacists, and multi-disciplinary teams in the PCN.

The role of the technician will cover clinical, technical and administrative duties. The primary purpose of this role is to ensure that systems, structures and processes are in place to deliver the smooth and efficient day to day running of the sites.

Liaise with clinicians and administrative staff to resolve medicines-related queries

Monitor practice prescribing and adherence to local and national prescribing policies

Improve service and quality through mechanisms such as audit

• It is a requirement of the role to be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council and have a BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences with a minimum of 2 years experience to join our existing PCN pharmacy and medicines optimisation team.

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.