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Job overview

In partnership with Newcastle’s Outer West Primary Care Network an exciting opportunity has arisen, we are looking for a Clinical Pharmacy Technician to join our existing  friendly integrated clinical pharmacy team in primary care of 2 Pharmacists and 1 Technician.

You will work independently with patients and as part of our multidisciplinary team, reviewing patients via telephone consultation and seeing patients at home/care home or at their GP practice. The Outer West comprises 6 practices, travelling between practices would be required; if you are kind, innovative, work well in a team, find patient consultations rewarding and understand patient centred care then you could be our perfect fit.

Prior experience in a patient facing role in any sector is an advantage.  Please see the Job description and Person specification for more details and get in touch for a chat or a visit.

• Interview Date: 16 July 2024

• 37 hours 30 minutes/week

• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy.  Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicants will register with Centre for Postgraduate Pharmacy Education’s Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP); the course is fully funded by Health Education England, and we will provide full financial support for travel, study leave, and any equipment needed.

Key responsibilities of the role include solving medicines related problems for patients and alleviating GP workload. This will include:

• reconciling medicines  at the point of registration to the practice and liaison with the team regarding onward monitoring.
• Establishing patient safety systems within the practices related to high risk medicines
• making changes to the patient’s primary care record
• issuing prescriptions 
• talking to patients about new/changed medicines
• electronic transfer of care to community pharmacy
• providing alternative medicines during stock supply shortages
• adjusting medicine formulations for swallowing difficulties or MDS provision
• bringing medicine issues in line for repeat dispensing or proxy ordering
• re-authorising repeat medicines
• Setting up electronic repeat dispensing
• Supporting the wider pharmacy team through collaboration and shared learning

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.