ARRS Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

Cromer Medical Practice is looking to welcome an ARRS pharmacy technician to join our experienced team on a part-time basis for 30 hours per week.

This key role will support the practice based clinical pharmacist to ensure the safe delivery for repeat prescribing, medicine optimisation, reducing waste and maximising patient outcomes.

Main duties of the job

• Support the clinical pharmacist as the point of contact for medicines related matters.
• Process repeat medication requests, including the conversion of acute requests to repeat medicines, changing quantities of medicines.
• Issue prescriptions in line with agreed clinical protocols.
• Encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the practice.
• Undertake medicines reconciliation post discharge and on other transfers of care.
• Managing hospital letters.
• Update and maintain accurate and timely patient medication records on each practice clinical system, including advice given and action taken.
• Liaise with secondary and primary care colleagues to ensure correct medicines are continued following the transfer of care
• Support virtual and remote models of consultation and support including e- consultations, telehealth and telemedicine.

About us

We are a supportive forward thinking GP training practice with a happy reliable workforce, providing care to approximately 12,500 patients. We have a strong emphasis on high quality patient care, education and personal development. We are made up of four GP partners, three salaried GP's, a practice nursing team of five nurses and two nurse practitioner's. We are a hybrid practice with a pharmacy attached to the surgery.