About the Role

Colchester Medical Practice has an exciting opportunity for a hardworking, enthusiastic and innovative pharmacy technician to join our primary care network. You will be based at Parsons Heath site but will be required to travel between all of the GP practices within our PCN. This role is offered on a full-time basis or part-time basis, for 37 hours per week on 4 days. However, we can discuss more or less hours.

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.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

Developing our prescribing systems to ensure safe, effective and efficient prescribing within the PCN.
Supporting the reception and administration teams, at our member practices, with complex medication queries.
Supporting the GP partners on prescribing projects and cost/safety audits and actions.
Updating policies and procedures.
Updating patient records from secondary care correspondence.
Managing case loads of patients such as diabetes care, hypertension, CKD.
Supporting during vaccination campaigns - not crucial to role.

About the Candidate

The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and skills:

Registered pharmacy technician with the GPhC.
Diploma Level 3 in pharmacy services, or equivalent.
Strong experience in either a community pharmacy or a primary care setting.
Confident in analysing and presenting information to health professionals.
Experience of implementing and promoting cost-effective strategies.
Ability to interpret complex clinical information and present it in suitable formats, to a variety of people from professional and non-professional backgrounds.

About Us

Colchester Medical Practice is a well established PCN, delivering excellent care to over 41,000 patients across the city of Colchester. We have four sites (Shrub End Surgery, Castle Gardens Medical Practice, Wimpole Road Surgery and Parsons Heath Medical Practice) and a new health and wellbeing hub, based at our Parsons Heath site.

The practice is well established with a rating of GOOD by the Care Quality Commission. As a practice we employ over 120 colleagues to provide excellent healthcare to patients across Colchester.

We offer:

NHS pension scheme.
Proper Pay - Living Wage Foundation accredited.
Eye-care vouchers.
Health service discounts.
Annual Leave: minimum 33 days FTE.
Enhanced maternity and paternity terms.
Uniform provided for colleagues if required.
Free use of Holly Health mental wellbeing app.
Flexible working contracts available upon request.
Excellent training opportunities and progression provided.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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