Pharmacy Technician (zero hours)

As a Pharmacy Technician you will work as part of a prescribing team, comprising Clinical Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technicians, Prescribing Support Administrators and Prescribing Team reception, who work alongside the wider practice team and help implement our integrated model of prescribing support. The successful candidate will share our values and have the energy, skills and enthusiasm to contribute to shaping how we support our patients., The main duties include the safe processing of repeat medication requests, issuing prescriptions following specific checks (which may include reviewing blood results, checking patients INR, checking any QOF and IIF coding is accurate and up to date) & dealing with patient requests. You can expect to receive hospital discharges, hospital letters and medication recommendations for review and action. You will inform patients when blood tests/ BP checks/ medication reviews are due and work within our chronic disease management pathways to keep their electronic notes up to date accordingly. Our Pharmacy Technicians currently also have telephone consultations for patients with medication queries, and support the prescribing duty doctor with requests. You will liaise regularly with clinicians in secondary care, either initiated by yourself, GP or patient. You will initiate practice policies to ensure safe prescribing and will have very close link with the GPs, with a dedicated time slot each day
to discuss queries and assist with decisions over patient care. You will be a valued member of the clinical team.

The Middlewood Partnership is a GP Practice and Primary Care Network of 33,500 patients, established in April 2019. We operate from 4 sites across Bollington, Disley and Poynton and we are looking for an enthusiastic individual who shares our values and has the energy and skills contribute to shaping how we deliver care for the future, to join the Middlewood Partnership as a Pharmacy Technician.