Pharmacy Technician
Job Summary
A skilled, experienced and enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician will work with the Complex Care Team at Lincoln Healthcare Partnership Primary Care Network (PCN) to support patients with complex health and social conditions. The role involves ensuring safe, accurate, and timely supply of prescribed medication within a multidisciplinary healthcare team, leading improvements to maximise safe, cost‑effective best practice in prescribing, and supporting medication optimisation, antimicrobial stewardship and quality improvement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
* Undertake patient‑facing and patient‑supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision‑making conversations with patients.
* Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g., checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation.
* Support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronise medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies.
* Support structured medication reviews (SMR).
* Provide specialist expertise to address public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice and service information.
* Take a central role in shared care protocols and liaise with clinical pharmacists for complex patients.
* Support microbial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.
* Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation incentives and patient safety audits.
* Support the PCN multidisciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes.
* Implement efficient ordering and return processes and reduce medication wastage.
* Provide training and support on legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
* Promote electronic repeat dispensing (eRD) and online ordering.
* Develop relationships with pharmacy professionals and other team members to support integration across health and social care.
* Support practice reception teams in streaming general prescription requests.
* Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings.
* Support the PCN to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services.
* Contribute to quality improvement measures and the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
* Support the PCN in reviewing and developing practice policies for CQC requirements.
* Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity, and actively promote equality and diversity issues relevant to the post.
* Ensure principles of openness, transparency and candour are upheld in all working practices.
* Maintain safeguarding knowledge and report infection prevention and control issues to line manager.
Qualifications and Experience
Essential
* Professional registration with GPhC.
* Meets the standard qualification and training requirements as specified by GPhC criteria to register as a Pharmacy Technician.
* Enrolled in, undertaking or qualified from an approved training pathway (e.g., PCPEP or MOCH).
* Experience of working as a qualified registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy.
Desirable
* BTEC/NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences.
* Demonstrated ability to influence and persuade partners and stakeholders of different options, innovations and challenges.
Contract Details
Salary: £16.74 an hour.
Contract type: Fixed term, 15 months.
Working pattern: Full‑time, part‑time, flexible working.
Location: Lincoln Healthcare Partnership PCN, Lindum Business Park, Lincoln LN6 3QX.
Recruitment Details
Reference number: A0720-25-0033.
#J-18808-Ljbffr