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Job Summary
Are you ready to make a real difference in healthcare? Childwall and Wavertree Primary Care Network is looking for a passionate and proactive
Job Summary
Are you ready to make a real difference in healthcare? Childwall and Wavertree Primary Care Network is looking for a passionate and proactive Pharmacy Technician to take on a pivotal role working across our seven member practices serving over 44,000 patients in South Liverpool. You will join our supportive team of three pharmacists and two pharmacy technicians and the wider multi-disciplinary PCN team. This is more than just a job it's a chance to lead meaningful change and improve lives every day.
Main duties of the job
In this exciting and varied role, you'll work across clinical, technical, and administrative areas to champion safe, cost-effective, and evidence-based prescribing.
Your mission?
To help patients get the most from their medicines while enhancing the quality of care across our practices.
What You'll Be Doing:
Leading improvements in prescribing practices to ensure safety, efficiency, and best outcomes for patients.
Supporting medication switches in line with approved protocols.
Streamlining repeat prescribing processes, promoting online ordering and repeat dispensing.
Minimising clinical risk and reducing medicine waste.
Educating and empowering practice teams on medicines optimisation and therapeutic developments.
You'll also play a key role in helping our Primary Care Network (PCN) meet national targets and initiatives, including:
The Network Contract DES
The Investment and Impact Fund
Liverpool GP Specification
NICE guidelines and medicines optimisation strategies
Why Join Us?
Be based on-site and enjoy the variety of working across multiple practices.
Collaborate with a forward-thinking, supportive team.
Grow your skills and make a tangible impact on patient care and system-wide improvements.
If you're driven by purpose, thrive in a dynamic environment, and are ready to deliver change in primary care wed love to hear from you!
About Us
Childwall and Wavertree Network is a Primary Care Network (PCN) in South Liverpool, serving 44,000 patients across seven well-established practices: Valley Medical Centre, Rutherford Medical Centre, Penny Lane Surgery, Greenbank Road Surgery, Greenbank Drive Surgery, Lance Lane Medical Centre, and Beacon Health at Mossley Hill Surgery.
PCN staff are paired with 2 to 3 practices where they will contribute to patient care. This helps to build relationships with the practice and PCN staff in that practice and allows staff to adapt to the unique cultures and ways of working in each practice. There are also opportunities to work across all 7 practices on specific projects such as quality improvement and community engagement.
We are committed to delivering high-quality, compassionate, and innovative care that meets the needs of our diverse community. Our values include patient-centred care, staff well-being, collaboration, continuous learning, equity in access, and preventative care.
As a network of teaching practices, we support professional development and foster a culture where both patients and staff can thrive. The pharmacy team meet weekly to ensure everyone is connected and supported. We facilitate learning and improvement through monthly clinical supervisions with our GP Education Lead.
Join us to be part of a forward-thinking, inclusive team making a real difference in local healthcare.
Details
Date posted
12 June 2025
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
£29,970 to £34,085 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
Reference number
A5099-25-0001
Job locations
75 Hartsbourne Avenue
Liverpool
L25 1RY
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Clinical
Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision- making conversations with patients
Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively
As determined by the PCN, support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for care home patients and synchronising medicines for patients transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies
provide specialist expertise, where competent, to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities
Technical and Administrative
Work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage
Supervise practice reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests
Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems across PCNs, supporting practices with a range of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and implementing Electronic Prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines
Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)
Develop 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.
Medicines quality improvement and safety
Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance
Provide leadership on person centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
Implementation of local and national guidelines Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulationSupport the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking clinical audits (e.g. use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services Care Quality Commission Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved Professional Development Be willing to be enrolled in or have qualified from an approved training pathway meeting the requirements of the UK-wide Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK (APTUK) National Competency Framework for Primary Care Pharmacy technicians (currently the CPPE or PCPEP training pathways)
Work with your line manager to undertake continual personal and professional development taking an active part in reviewing and developing the role and responsibilities
Adhere to organisations policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety
Work with your line manager to access a minimum of one supervision session per month by a senior clinical pharmacist or GP clinical supervisor
Research and evaluation
Critically evaluate and review literature
Identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice
Generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level
Apply research evidence base into the workplace
Health and Safety/Risk Management
Must always comply with the Health and Safety policies, in particular following safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting Systems
Comply with the Data Protection Act (2018) and the Access to Health Records Act (1990).
Benefits
Competitive salary package
Support for professional development and training
Flexible working options to accommodate work-life balance
Supportive and established team of 3 pharmacists and 2 pharmacy technicians
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Benefits
Competitive salary package
Support for professional development and training
Flexible working options to accommodate work-life balance
Supportive and established team of 3 pharmacists and 2 pharmacy technicians
Person Specification
Transport
Essential
Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own homes
Experience
Essential
Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacy technician in primary care, community, or hospital pharmacy
Desirable
Knowledge and Understanding of Primary Care Networks and General Practice
Qualifications
Essential
Professional registration with General Pharmaceutical Council BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
Desirable
Completed the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) primary care pathway
Person Specification
Transport
Essential
Professional registration with General Pharmaceutical Council BTEC/NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences
Desirable
Completed the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) primary care pathway
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).
Additional information
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
Childwall and Wavertree Primary Care Network
Address
75 Hartsbourne Avenue
Liverpool
L25 1RY
Employer's website
https://cwnhealth.co.uk/(Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Childwall and Wavertree Primary Care Network
Address
75 Hartsbourne Avenue
Liverpool
L25 1RY
Employer's website
https://cwnhealth.co.uk/(Opens in a new tab)
Seniority level Seniority level Entry level
Employment type Employment type Full-time
Job function Job function Health Care Provider
Industries Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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