197783 (SNIS) Prescribing Support Pharmacy Technician inEdinburgh inEdinburgh PUBLISHED 11 OCT 2024
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Do you want to be at the forefront of transforming the delivery of pharmaceutical care.
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.
NHS Lothian serves a population of approximately 1 million people, employs 35,000 people, and is fundamentally focussed on improving the health and wellbeing of the population. Some of the benefits of working in NHS Lothian are captured in the video below;
www.jobsincare.com/job/jobliBwb NHS Lothian Primary Care Pharmacy and Medicines Service is undergoing an ambitious programme of transformation and integration. Pharmaceutical care is provided by a team of around 100 pharmacy staff, including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and administrators, working across General Practices covering the whole of Edinburgh.
Partnership working is at the core of our values, and we work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, including our Community Pharmacy colleagues, to deliver the highest quality care for everyone in Lothian.
Do you want to be at the forefront of transforming the delivery of pharmaceutical care?
Do you want to work in an environment that values staff and supports their learning, growth, and wellbeing?
Do you want to work with a dynamic team who have the ambition to be “the best Pharmacy service in Scotland”?
Edinburgh HSCP are increasing clinical capacity across Primary care in support of Scottish Government’s Achieving Excellence strategy and in fulfillment of the plans for a pharmacotherapy service for General Practice.
We are looking for a dynamic, highly motivated, and enthusiastic technician, to take forward key prescribing initiatives within GP Practices across Edinburgh.
You will work closely with GPs, other practice staff, community pharmacists, care home staff, other members of the multi-disciplinary team and central team colleagues in supporting the development and application of high quality, safe, cost effective and evidence-based prescribing in the Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP). You will work within GP practices, care homes and other healthcare settings to provide individualised care to patients to improve the safety and effectiveness of their medicines. You will work on joint projects/initiatives within the HSCP as required and promote awareness of prescribing management issues.
With a National Certificate in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent Pharmacy Technician qualification and current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council, applicants should also have significant post qualification experience. Excellent communication, IT and organisational skills are a pre-requisite and experience of medicines management and working with GPs would be an advantage. You should be able to work autonomously as well as part of a team.
Informal enquiries are welcomed.
Further information may be obtained from
Steven Walker Band 6 Pharmacy Technician, Prescribing Efficiency and Analysis Technical (Peat)
or
Barbara Irvine, Lead Pharmacy Technician, South East Edinburgh Health and Social Care
NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.
We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.
NHS Lothian serves a population of approximately 1 million people, employs 35,000 people, and is fundamentally focussed on improving the health and wellbeing of the population. Some of the benefits of working in NHS Lothian are captured in the video below;
www.jobsincare.com/job/jobliBwb NHS Lothian Primary Care Pharmacy and Medicines Service is undergoing an ambitious programme of transformation and integration. Pharmaceutical care is provided by a team of around 100 pharmacy staff, including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and administrators, working across General Practices covering the whole of Edinburgh.
Partnership working is at the core of our values, and we work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, including our Community Pharmacy colleagues, to deliver the highest quality care for everyone in Lothian.
Do you want to be at the forefront of transforming the delivery of pharmaceutical care?
Do you want to work in an environment that values staff and supports their learning, growth, and wellbeing?
Do you want to work with a dynamic team who have the ambition to be “the best Pharmacy service in Scotland”?
Edinburgh HSCP are increasing clinical capacity across Primary care in support of Scottish Government’s Achieving Excellence strategy and in fulfillment of the plans for a pharmacotherapy service for General Practice.
We are looking for a dynamic, highly motivated, and enthusiastic technician, to take forward key prescribing initiatives within GP Practices across Edinburgh.
You will work closely with GPs, other practice staff, community pharmacists, care home staff, other members of the multi-disciplinary team and central team colleagues in supporting the development and application of high quality, safe, cost effective and evidence-based prescribing in the Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP). You will work within GP practices, care homes and other healthcare settings to provide individualised care to patients to improve the safety and effectiveness of their medicines. You will work on joint projects/initiatives within the HSCP as required and promote awareness of prescribing management issues.
With a National Certificate in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent Pharmacy Technician qualification and current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council, applicants should also have significant post qualification experience. Excellent communication, IT and organisational skills are a pre-requisite and experience of medicines management and working with GPs would be an advantage. You should be able to work autonomously as well as part of a team.
Informal enquiries are welcomed.
Further information may be obtained from
Steven Walker Band 6 Pharmacy Technician, Prescribing Efficiency and Analysis Technical (Peat)
or
Barbara Irvine, Lead Pharmacy Technician, South East Edinburgh Health and Social Care
We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.
This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/ record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.
NHS Lothian serves a population of approximately 1 million people, employs 35,000 people, and is fundamentally focussed on improving the health and wellbeing of the population. Some of the benefits of working in NHS Lothian are captured in the video below;
www.jobsincare.com/job/jobliBwb NHS Lothian Primary Care Pharmacy and Medicines Service is undergoing an ambitious programme of transformation and integration. Pharmaceutical care is provided by a team of around 100 pharmacy staff, including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and administrators, working across General Practices covering the whole of Edinburgh.
Partnership working is at the core of our values, and we work closely with other members of the multi-disciplinary team, including our Community Pharmacy colleagues, to deliver the highest quality care for everyone in Lothian.
Do you want to be at the forefront of transforming the delivery of pharmaceutical care?
Do you want to work in an environment that values staff and supports their learning, growth, and wellbeing?
Do you want to work with a dynamic team who have the ambition to be “the best Pharmacy service in Scotland”?
Edinburgh HSCP are increasing clinical capacity across Primary care in support of Scottish Government’s Achieving Excellence strategy and in fulfillment of the plans for a pharmacotherapy service for General Practice.
We are looking for a dynamic, highly motivated, and enthusiastic technician, to take forward key prescribing initiatives within GP Practices across Edinburgh.
You will work closely with GPs, other practice staff, community pharmacists, care home staff, other members of the multi-disciplinary team and central team colleagues in supporting the development and application of high quality, safe, cost effective and evidence-based prescribing in the Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP). You will work within GP practices, care homes and other healthcare settings to provide individualised care to patients to improve the safety and effectiveness of their medicines. You will work on joint projects/initiatives within the HSCP as required and promote awareness of prescribing management issues.
With a National Certificate in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent Pharmacy Technician qualification and current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council, applicants should also have significant post qualification experience. Excellent communication, IT and organisational skills are a pre-requisite and experience of medicines management and working with GPs would be an advantage. You should be able to work autonomously as well as part of a team.
Informal enquiries are welcomed.
Further information may be obtained from
Steven Walker Band 6 Pharmacy Technician, Prescribing Efficiency and Analysis Technical (Peat)
or
Barbara Irvine, Lead Pharmacy Technician, South East Edinburgh Health and Social Care
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