Job summary Are you a motivated and flexible individual looking for an innovative and rewarding role as a pharmacy technician within primary care?If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen in Your Health Partnership Primary Care Network for a pharmacy technician to join our integrated Medicines Management Team.
Main duties of the job To work under the supervision of the Lead Pharmacist and Senior Clinical Pharmacists to ensure the safe, accurate and timely supply of prescribed medication to patients.To provide technical and administrative support to the Clinical Pharmacists and Clinicians.To support the primary care team with queries around medication from patients; including face to face and telephone support to patients, primary and community staff.
About us Your Health Partnership (YHP) are a cutting edge Primary Care Network working as part of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust.We pride ourselves on being both innovative and bold as we plan and deliver services to our patients.If you value working in a high quality, innovative, integrated environment then please get in touch.YHP PCN was an early adopter of the General Practice Super Partnership Model over the last 10 years grown to serve around 50,000 patients in our local area.
We have worked closely for many years with our local Acute and Community SWB Trusts and in April 2020 vertically integrated to become one of the few Primary Care Directorates in the Country.Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff.
Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.We have three newly emerging strategic objectives: Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staffOur Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we doOur Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live Job description Job responsibilities Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails Person Specification Experience Essential Significant amount of post-registration experience Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate Qualifications Essential BTEC / NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmacy services Completed or willing to enrol on to start 18-month training pathway ( Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway or Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes) Desirable Pharmacy Clinical Services Professional diploma (BTEC level 4) or other relevant qualification Knowledge Essential An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing