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Salary for this role£30,191 – £36,479 a year
Health and Care route minimum£25,000 a year
Pay basisNational pay scales (NHS bands)
This occupation falls under the Health and Care Worker route. Salaries set by national pay scales (NHS bands) at or above the relevant band rate typically meet the occupation's requirement.
Closest occupation match: SOC 3212, Pharmaceutical technicians. Home Office going rate for this occupation: £33,400 a year.
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Role description
Job summary
Pharmacy Technician - Warwickshire East PCN
South Warwickshire GP Federation
Salary: £30,191 - £36,479 (Depending on experience)
Job type: Full-time, permanent
Location: The successful candidate will be required to travel between/or
based atSoutham Surgery, Southam.Due to the geography and nature of
the role a clean UK driving license and full use of car is essential.
Job summary
Warwickshire East PCN are looking to recruit Pharmacy Technicians who are passionate for delivering a quality
service to their patients. The post holder will support the practice based
Clinical Pharmacist to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and efficient
systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines
waste and maximising patient outcomes. This role will proactively transfer
workload relating to medicines optimisation issues to improve patients care,
safety and free up clinical staff to spend more time on clinical care.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
The Pharmacy Technician will support the medicine
management role of the Clinical Pharmacist to deliver a safe, efficient, and
consistently effective General Practice model of care, including supporting and
assisting a cluster of GP practices. The purpose of the role is to lead
improvements to maximise safe, cost-effective best practice in prescribing to
improve the quality of patient care.
Essential
Professional
registration with GPhC.
BTEC or NVQ
level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical
sciences.
Evidence of
post qualifying and continuing
professional development.
Experience of
working as a qualified, registered pharmacy
technician in primary care,
community or hospital pharmacy.
Has
appreciation of new NHS architecture
including the relationship between individual provider, PCN and commissioners.
Knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law and ethics
and current legislation.
Computer
literate with an ability to use the
required GP clinical systems desirableand Microsoft office packages essential
Evidence of
planning and delivering projects and services on time. Has a planned and organised approach
with an ability
to prioritise their own workload to meet strict
deadlines.
About us
Overview of our organisation
SWGP Federation is made up of GP practices from areas including Warwick,
Leamington, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Kenilworth. We work together to deliver
enhanced services for the 300,000 patients we cover, as well as improving
working practices for our staff. We are proud to offer high levels of patient
care across South Warwickshire. Our purpose is to grow, support and enable
Primary Care in South Warwickshire by offering additional services and enabling
individual practices to focus more time on delivering patient care.
o 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
o NHS Pension
o Health & Wellbeing support
o Vivup Employee Assistance Programme
o Bike2work Scheme
o Access to the Blue Light card
The Warwickshire East PCN consists of the following practices:
Southam Surgery - Stowe Drive, Southam CV47 1NY
St Wulfstan Surgery - Northfield Road, Southam CV47 0FG
Harbury Surgery - Mill Street, Harbury, Leamington Spa CV33 9HR
Fenny Compton Surgery - High Street, Fenny Compton, Southam CV47 2YG
Kineton Surgery - Old School, Market Square, Kineton CV35 0LP
Details
Date posted
27 October 2026
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£30,191 to £36,479 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
B0062-26-0020
Job locations
Gainsborough Hall
Russell Street
Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV32 5QB
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
To support the
Practice Based Clinical Pharmacist to ensure the delivery of safe, effective
and efficient systems for repeat
prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes. To
proactively transfer workload relating to medicines optimisation issues to improve
patients care, safety
and free up clinical staff to spend more time on clinical
care.
Duties & Responsibilities:
Support
the Clinical Pharmacist at GP federation level in their role in each of the PCN practices.
Improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance
with their medicines.
Support the clinical pharmacist with medicines and prescribing queries
from patients and staff.
Support the clinical pharmacist to improve the safety and quality of prescribing following hospital admissions and attendance.
Carry
out medicines switches in GP practices in line with practice and CCG/ CSU
agreed specific protocols reviewing patients records, amending records
and informing patients.
Carry
out housekeeping whilst in patient records e.g. dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation.
Support improving
prescribing processes in general practice.
Promotion of electronic repeat
dispensing and online
ordering.
Use
and maintain information systems and databases relevant to the position
including incident reporting,
medicines optimisation, prescribing data, cost savings and patient outcomes.
Work closely
with GP practices within their designated PCN.
Participate
in practice meetings, patient participation groups, and other meetings to improve engagement of the role of pharmacy
technician within the PCN model and to promote issues
relevant to prescribing and medicines optimization.
Liaise
with other pharmacy stakeholders e.g. CCG/ CSU Medicines Optimisation team, community pharmacy, and hospital pharmacy
teams.
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 be responsible for
the organisation, planning
and of own workload to meet set deadlines.
To utilise GP practice clinical systems to conduct prescribing audits
e.g. EMIS Web.
To undertake, participate and share the outcomes of
clinical audits to facilitate improvement and changes
in practice.
Ensure that all major MHRA drug alerts, where
appropriate and within level of competence, are acted
upon within practices over an appropriate time frame and to advise on
any medication changes that occur as a result.
To assist in the monitoring of
prescribing expenditure
at individual practice
level and propose changes to ensure containment within
identified resource.
To undertake learning
and development to
ensure 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.
Contribute
to the achievement and maintenance of good to outstanding CQC registration status.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Professional registration with GPhC.
BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy.
Has appreciation of new NHS architecture including the relationship between individual provider, PCN and commissioners.
Knowledge and understanding of pharmacy law and ethics and current legislation.
Computer literate with an ability to use the required GP clinical systems (desirable) and Microsoft office packages (essential)
Evidence of planning and delivering projects and services on time.
Has a planned and organised approach with an ability to prioritise their own workload to meet strict deadlines.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.