Job summary

Barrack Lane Medical Centre has an exciting opportunity for a hardworking, enthusiastic and innovative pharmacy technician to join our medicines management team at Barrack Lane.

This role is offered on a full-time basis and will work within a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals to manage medication queries, support the delivery of safe and effective systems, and cost effective prescribing. Pharmacy technicians are also involved in the management of patients with LTC who require monitoring of their conditions and medication.

Main duties of the job

• Supporting the GP partners on prescribing projects and cost/safety audits and actions
• Managing patient prescriptions
• Supporting medication reviews and reconciliations
• Advising patients and healthcare professionals on medication-related queries
• Developing our prescribing systems to ensure safe, effective and efficient
• Supporting the reception and administration teams with complex medication queries
• Supporting the GP partners on prescribing projects and cost/safety audits and actions
• Minimising medication wastage
• Processing hospital letters and discharge summaries issuing new medication for sign off by GPs.
• Ensuring medicines which require a Shared Care Agreement have an agreement in place.
• Updating and maintaining EOL drug charts and drug charts required by Community Teams for administration of insulin/zoladex
• Advising clinicians when manufacturers are not supplying certain medications so that patients are not prescribed medication that is out of stock and actioning alternative requests when prescriptions are not available where appropriate
• Researching medication list from non UK national patients to check the English version/equivalent

The successful candidate will benefit from this opportunity to build up strong working relationships, across our organisation, and will be actively involved in how their role evolves over time.

About us

Barrack Lane is a busy practice in the town centre of Ipswich, Suffolk. We have a diverse practice population of over 20,500 patients. The practice is based on two sites, the main surgery in the centre of the town & a branch surgery at Stoke Park.

Our clinical team is made up of GP partners, salaried GPs, ANPs, ACPs, paramedics, physicians associate, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, a practice nursing team & HCAs. This team is supported by a strong administrative, coding & care-navigating team.

Barrack Lane is part of a PCN (primary care network) with Ivry Street Medical Centre, in Ipswich, & the two practices cover a population of 32,000 patients. The PCN allows the practices to share resources & offer an enhanced service to our patients. The PCN employs care co-ordinators & social prescribers to work with patients, especially our vulnerable patients, to help them to access the best care.

Working within the NHS entitles you to join the NHS pension scheme.

Benefits of the scheme include:

• The NHS pension scheme is a defined benefits scheme
• Life insurance
• Family benefits including an adult dependents pension and childrens pension
• Ill health benefits
• 20% employer contribution