Pharmacy Technician - Primary Care Network

LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest ‘true’ partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire. Joining our team presents an opportunity to be part of a large organisation that is changing the way primary care is delivered today.

Living and breathing our values at Lakeside Healthcare

Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do. We strive to ensure we connect and respond to all needs with compassion, care and respect to improve the lives and wellbeing of the communities we serve.

Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service.

About the Practice/Department/Team

Working within the Rockingham Forest Primary Care Network (PCN) you will be part of a forward-thinking Primary Care Network comprising of three surgeries across Corby, Kettering and Oundle. We recognise the value that these roles will bring to our practices and our patients, and we look forward to growing our PCN team. You will be joining an established, dynamic and varied team whose aim is to provide exemplary patient care; finding innovative solutions in general practice to deliver the best care we can to our patients.

The three surgeries are all well-established with a patient list size of over 78,000 which is forever growing.

We strongly believe in learning and teaching to progress personal development. Further training and development is encouraged to help build your role according to your aspirations and the needs of the business.

Job Introduction

We are looking for a Pharmacy Technician to join our developing multidisciplinary team across Rockingham Forest Primary Care Network (PCN).

The role of pharmacy within General Practice is part of an existing programme of transformation which is underpinned by the NHS Long Term Plan.

This innovative role offers the successful candidate the opportunity to support and work within the Lakeside Healthcare Pharmacy Team to ensure safe and effective use of medicines for its’ patients whilst working in line with evolving requirements of PCNs.

Please find below a link for further information on the Pharmacy Technician role

Meet our pharmacy technician - working alongside GPs to meet patients' healthcare needs - YouTube

What you will do (not exhaustive)

This is an innovative role to work within the Lakeside Healthcare Pharmacy team to ensure safe and effective use of medicines for patients within Lakeside Healthcare.

• Medicine reconciliation from clinic letters.

• Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and ensuring prescribing in practice is in line with ICB Formulary.

• Medication reviews.

• Support Clinical Pharmacists with general prescription requests and medication queries to allow them to review the more clinically complex requests.

• Participate in practice meetings to improve engagement of the role of pharmacy technician within the Lakeside Pharmacy model and to promote issues relevant to prescribing e.g. antimicrobial stewardship and improving quality of prescribing.

• Undertake training and development, to ensure the required knowledge and skills for practice-based work e.g. continuing development through CPPE Pathway.

• Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation incentive schemes and audits relating to MHRA alerts, drug monitoring and other patient safety initiatives, including high risk drug monitoring for all patients.

• Develop relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the multi-disciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health.

Essential Criteria

• BTEC/NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences

• Professional Registration with the GPhC

• Evidence of continued professional development

• Experience of working as a Pharmacy Technician in community, hospital or Primary Care

What we offer you (Benefits)

• Generous holidays (additional long service entitlements)

• NHS pension and long service recognition

• NHS Discounts (Blue Light Card)

• Career opportunities

• Role specific training and ongoing development

• Great team environment

Interview process – candidate information

Our interview process will aim to meet you in person however some interviews may be carried out virtually.

Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process at either application stage or interview, please contact our central HR team (details can be found on our website www.lakesidehealthcare.co.uk or you can message us through Indeed)

We encourage candidates to not delay their application as we retain the right to close the advert early should the volume of applications become very high.

Please ensure you have your Right to Work documentation available at interview We will require you to produce the original documentation prior to your start date.

Shortlisting

We anticipate that shortlisting will commence one week after the advert has closed and will advise of interview arrangements if successful, however this timeline is dependent on the number of applications.

We aim to communicate with all candidates on the status of their application which is dependent on the hiring manager/teams once they have shortlisted.

(Indeed applications only - If you require full job description and person spec please contact our central HR team.)

Website

[https://www.thelakesidesurgery.co.uk/]

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

We value diversity and we're committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and to reach their full potential. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, ethnicities, and cultures and believe that a diverse workforce will help us to care for and support our patients and employees better. Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18 yrs. so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.

Equal Opportunities

Lakeside Healthcare is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to ensuring that all our staff and job applicants are protected from unlawful discrimination. All employees and job applicants will be treated equally, fairly and with respect. We will endeavour, through appropriate training, to ensure that our hiring teams making selection and recruitment decisions will not discriminate, whether consciously or unconsciously, in making these decisions throughout our recruitment and selection processes and follow recognised industry best practice.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Store discount

Application question(s):

• Do you have the right to work in the UK? (Yes/No) – If you answered Yes you must be able to provide sufficient evidence upon interview
• Do you hold a BTEC/NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences?
• Have you worked for Lakeside Healthcare before? If Yes, where did you work

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 18/08/2024