Pharmacy Technician

The PCN Pharmacy Technician will improve the quality and safety of care offered to patients of First Coastal PCN based on the East Coast. They will support the PCN, Practices and Pharmacy team to ensure safe, effective prescribing and medicines optimisation., The key aims for the pharmacy technician are to support the clinical pharmacists in the delivery of clinical pharmacy services and work as part of the pharmacy and multi-disciplinary team to:

- Increase safety and quality of prescribed medicines

- Assist with medicines reconciliation on transfer between care providers, medication reviews and structured medication reviews

- Provide support on medicines related issues to the whole PCN

- Be a point of contact for patients regarding medicines queries

- Provide remote and/or face to face support to patients as needed

- Be a point of contact for other healthcare providers in the locality e.g. community pharmacies

- To reduce the medicines related workload on doctors and pharmacists

- Assist in the management of MHRA/CAS alerts across the PCN, An exciting opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic and forward-thinking Pharmacy Technician to join First Coastal PCN in a new role that will be developed as it progresses. This role will work closely with the Senior Clinical Pharmacist, but will also work within our Primary Care Community Team, comprising of GPs, Practice Managers and their teams, Clinical Pharmacists, Specialist Practitioners, Care Co-Ordinators, Health and Wellbeing Coaches and Social Prescribing Link Workers

We are looking for an ambitious and motivated pharmacy technician with good interpersonal skills to join our PCN team and work alongside our clinical team

First Coastal PCN covers a population of approximately 84,000 patients, this is made up of seven practices, Marsico Medical Practice (Mablethorpe), Hawthorn Medical Practice (Skegness), Beacon Medical Practice (Skegness), Merton Lodge (Alford), Spilsby Surgery, Stickney Surgery and Old Leake Medical Practice. These practices work together across coastal and rural to deliver care to the local population.

As an organisation, we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.