# Pharmacy TechnicianJob details| | || --- | --- || Posting date: | 10 October 2025 || Salary: | £38,000.00 to £42,000.00 per year || Additional salary information: | £38000.00 - £42000.00 a year || Hours: | Full time || Closing date: | 31 October 2025 || Company: | NHS Jobs || Job type: | Permanent || Job reference: | A2700-25-0052 |## SummaryThe Pharmacy Technician is to undertake the following clinical responsibilities in delivering health services: a. Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients b. Conduct medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g., checking inhaler technique), support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively. c. Support, as determined by the PCN, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronise medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking with local community pharmacists. d. Provide specialist expertise, where competent, to address both the public health and social care needs of patients including lifestyle advice, service information and help in tackling local health inequalities. e. Maintain a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaise with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients. f. Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing. g. Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits. h. Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking clinical audits (e.g., use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and the Investment and Impact Fund (IIF) objectives. i. Attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed j. Contribute to public health campaigns through advice or direct care. k. Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area at all times.| Location: | Sutton, SM1 4DP |
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