Audits:

• Provide assistance and support with audits undertaken by the Practice Managers, Partners, Salaried GPs, GP Registrars, Medical Students and the wider Practice Team.

Technical And Administrative:

• Working with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return processes and reducing wastage.
• Providing training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS).
• Developing relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the multi-disciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and mental health.
• Supervising and line managing practice prescribing team in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests.
• Support implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP Practice, care homes and other primary care settings.
• Supporting Quality Improvement measures and participation in Prescribing Quality Scheme, supporting Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services.

Additional tasks

• Other duties as per Partners instructions as dictated by changes in the nature of the Whitstable Medical Practice.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Previous experience of working in an administrative role
• Experience of working in a busy environment and working to tight deadlines
• Advance knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Excel and PowerPoint

Desirable

• Experience of working in a GP Practice or other health care setting
• Working knowledge of Emis, experience in running searches and reports; creating and updating templates

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Accurate, thorough attention to detail with the ability to work quickly with numbers
• Excellent communication, organisation, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work to tight deadlines
• Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email and face to face
• Proven IT skills including the use of Microsoft Office and other software packages
• Able to maintain confidentiality
• Ability to use own initiative, discretion and sensitivity

Desirable

• A team player who is able to promote good practices and motivate others

Qualifications

Essential

• Good general education including minimum Grade C GCSE or equivalent in English Language and Maths or equivalent qualification
• BTEC National Diploma in Pharmaceutical Science or NVQ/SVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services or National Certificate in Pharmaceutical Science
• Valid registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• The post holder must either be enrolled or have qualified from an accredited training pathway that equips the clinical pharmacist to be able to practice and prescribe safely and effectively in a primary care setting (currently the CPPE Clinical Pharmacist Training Pathway)

Desirable

• Primary Care pharmacy educational pathway (PCPEP)
• Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Whitstable Medical Practice

Address

Boorman Way

Whitstable

Kent

CT5 3SE

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.whitstablemedicalpractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)