Role Summary
As the pharmacy technician within the Pharmacy & Prescriptions Team at Castle Place Practice, you will:
- Contribute to the development and provision of professional pharmaceutical support and medicines optimisation services in Castle Place Practice as a primary care setting.
- Provide patient focused high quality, evidence based, cost effective and safe advice and training relating to the use of medicines and medicines management systems working with multidisciplinary teams.
- Work with the Pharmacy and Prescriptions Team to ensure repeat prescribing processes are safe and effective.
- Proactively manage the reconciliation of discharge summaries and specialist review correspondence.
- Work as part of the MDT to improve prescribing practices across the Practice and Tiverton PCN.
- Work with the support of the Clinical Pharmacists to undertake patient facing activity to proactively review patients to ensure effective medicines use including medication reviews.
- Liaise with community health services, community hospitals, outpatient clinics, care homes and patients’ usual place of residence in the community as required.
- Respond to medication queries from with patients, community pharmacists, nursing homes, carers, RDUH trust colleagues and others, with support from Clinical Pharmacists as required.
- Provide patient focused advice and training relating to the use of medicines and medicines management systems working with multidisciplinary teams.
About the Role
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we'll help you get there.
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you're starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You'll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You'll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we'd love to hear from you.
About Us
For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below.
More detail about the role
Castle Place GP Practice has a unique and exciting opportunity for a part-time (26 hours per week) Band 5 Pharmacy Technician to join our established Prescriptions and Pharmacist team.
Castle Place Practice, which is part of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, is uniquely positioned to thrive in the ongoing development of integrated care in the Eastern Devon System. A friendly practice within a market town holding 14,100 patients on its list this is an exciting time to join the team.
As part of an NHS Foundation Trust, this post will benefit from full indemnity cover, an NHS pension and opportunities for involvement in development projects with the wider organisation.
We are located within spacious modern premises adjacent to a community hospital with a wide range of services including radiology, inpatients and urgent care. We are very much a team-based practice with a democratic approach across specialities. We pride ourselves on providing excellent care with a supportive ethos. We meet regularly throughout the day including at morning huddle and coffee.
Our multi skilled team extend to Nurses/ANPs/Clinical Pharmacists/Paramedic/Physio and being a teaching and training practice makes this a dynamic place to work. We are one of two practices within Tiverton Primary Care Network (PCN) which makes us an effective size for collaboration. Work life balance is important to us and maintaining enthusiasm for general practice through learning and development.
As we strengthen our partnership with the Royal Devon University Healthcare Foundation Trust, which delivers acute, community and primary care across the region, we are developing opportunities for greater collaboration with a huge range of specialties, and this will include opportunities for portfolio working to enhance the care provided to patients as well as strengthen our local workforce and we are keen for this post to be part of developing these opportunities.
If you feel you have the qualities to become part of the Castle Place team, we would be pleased to hear from you and welcome informal visits to find out if this is the opportunity for you.
Working Pattern: Negotiable - hours to be worked over 3 to 5 set days / week
Interview Date: 21st November 2022
For further information please contact Ali Hodgetts - Lead Pharmacist - Castle Place Practice via email: alison.hodgetts@nhs.net
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
Benefits
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
It’s never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you'll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
