Job summary

We are looking for a Pharmacy Technician to work across our group of 12 GP Practices across the Rugby area, under the supervision of the Practice-based Clinical Pharmacists. As part of our growing Pharmacy team, you'll support and ensure the delivery of safe, effective, efficient systems for repeat prescribing and medicine optimisation to reduce medicine waste and maximise patient outcomes.

The successful candidate will be used to working autonomously, handling the technical administration related to their role, working under appropriate clinical supervision to ensure safe, effective and efficient use of medicines. The post-holder will be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) and enrolled in, undertaking or qualified from, an approved training pathway i.e. CPPE Primary care Education Pathway training unless otherwise exempt.

The role is 100% practice-based, and the successful candidate will demonstrate innovative ideas, excellent communication skills, enthusiasm and motivation. You will be dealing with daily medication requests and queries, communicating with patients and Community Pharmacies and be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice teams, promoting good practice in line with therapeutic developments. This will involve assisting the Practices in achieving national requirements, NICE implementation and utilisation of medicines optimisation initiatives.

Main duties of the job

You will join our Clinical Pharmacy team to:

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. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively;

Support, as determined by the PCN, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking with local community pharmacists.

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. take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients;

Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing;

Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits;

Please see JD for further duties - see documents

About us

Right to work checks

All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage

We are not able to offer sponsorship for this role.

Rugby Health is a private company limited by shares, wholly owned by all the Rugby GP practices. As a GP led organisation, we represent 12 GP practice shareholders and cover over 122,000 patients. We describe our work as building on the core of current primary care services and enable greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care. Our aim is to move from reactively providing appointments to proactively caring for the people and communities we serve.

Why Work For Us?

On-site parking at GP practices

Flexible hours and working arrangements considered from day 1

Dynamic and adaptable team

Training and support, enabling you to develop within the role as you will be actively supported to complete the appropriate CPD

You will be registered with the GPhC as a Pharmacy Technician and will be expected to undertake the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway training unless otherwise exempt.

Date posted

05 March 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£33,882 a year (FTE) with eligibility for NHS Pension Scheme

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A5360-25-0001

Job locations

Clifton Road Surgery

26 Clifton Road

Rugby

Warwickshire

CV21 3QF

Job description

Job responsibilities

Manage incoming medication requests, e.g. from Patients, Pharmacies, Care Homes etc.

Assisting the Practice admin team/s with medication queries.

Liaise with patients to resolve queries and support their use of medication

Contribute towards improvement of prescribing processes in general practice

Promotion of electronic repeat dispensing and online ordering

Carry out housekeeping whilst in patient records e.g. dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation

Use and maintain information systems and databases relevant to the position including incident reporting, medicines optimisation, prescribing data, cost savings and patient outcomes

Handle function specific information, which may be sensitive, complex or confidential and appropriately recording, transferring and/or coordinating such information in accordance with the Data Protection Act; Caldicott Guidelines and the Confidentiality Code of Conduct

To utilise GP practice clinical systems to conduct prescribing audits

To undertake, participate and share the outcomes of clinical audits to facilitate improvement and changes in practice

Support the role of the Clinical Pharmacist on the delivery of the new Primary Care Networks specification model

Where applicable, contribute/participate in practice meetings, patient participation groups, and other meetings to improve engagement of the role of pharmacy technician and to promote issues relevant to prescribing and medicines optimisation

To be responsible for the organisation and planning of own workload to meet set deadlines

To undertake learning and development to maintain the required knowledge and skills for practice-based work

To carry out other duties which are appropriate to the skills and competencies of the post holder and grade of the post as the priorities of the service change