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Job description: Salary dependent on experience to be discussed at interview. Job Description JOB TITLE: PHARMACY TECHNICIAN RESPONSIBLE TO: Pharmacist RESPONSIBLE FOR: N/A JOB PURPOSE: To work under the supervision of the Pharmacist to ensure the safe, accurate and timely supply of prescriptions to patients. Mandatory - registered with GPhC as pharmacy technician. To provide technical and administrative support to the Clinical Pharmacists and Clinicians. Support the Reception teams with complex queries around medication from patients.
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Work with the Pharmacist and Clinicians in accordance with agreed practice prescribing standard operating procedures. Process repeat medication requests, including the conversion of acute requests to repeat medicines, changing quantities of medicines. Issuing prescriptions in line with agreed clinical protocols and within your competency. Liaise with secondary and primary care colleagues to ensure correct medicines are continued following the transfer of care.
Additional responsibilities include: Monitor practice adherence to the repeat prescribing policy, assist the Pharmacist with data analysis of prescribing behavior in line with NICE guidance and local clinical commissioning directives, and assist with the development and review of medicine audits. Maintain and develop medicines communication to staff, provide a contact for patients and colleagues with medication queries, and use practice and CCG templates to record near patients monitoring for high-risk drugs.
Other key duties: Identify blood tests, recalls and reviews using established protocols and forward these to the appropriate clinician. Liaise with Clinicians and staff to resolve prescribing queries. Review hospital discharge notifications and outpatient hospital letters and reconcile medication against current repeats, flagging up and correcting discrepancies. Promote safe use of medication, reporting of medication related incidents and proactively preventing safeguarding incidents.
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
* Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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