Current Vacancies

Shore Medical is a GP Super Partnership with 6 practices across Poole and Bournemouth. We aspire to offer exceptional care to our 58,000 patients and are innovative in our approach to developing new teams and pathways to ever improve how general practice is delivered. We have a friendly and supportive team of more than 200 staff, with over 40 GP’s, Pharmacists, Paramedics, Nurses, Mental Health specialists and our range of administrative staff. We have a great social side to our team with Summer and Christmas parties, running and paddle boarding groups as well as many other events throughout the year.

The Practices in the Partnership are:

• Lilliput Surgery
• Poole Road Medical Centre
• Wessex Road Surgery
• Heatherview Medical Centre
• Fernside Surgery
• Parkstone Tower Practice

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Pharmacy Technician to join our Parkstone Tower Practice to support the practice to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes.

Job Type: Permanent Full-time

Hours: 37.5 hours per week over 4 days – Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

Main duties of the job

• Provide medicines optimisation advice to Doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to promote the safe, effective, quality and cost-effective use of medicines.
• To reconcile medicines using the practice protocols for newly registered patients and following hospital discharge or outpatient consultation. Work with patients/carers and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines intended.
• Carry out housekeeping whilst in patient records e.g. Dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation
• Support repeat prescribing systems and processes in practice with a focus on quality improvement and supporting safe prescribing.
• Coordinate monthly prescriptions for care homes
• Support the Prescription Clerks, Patient Services and Call Hub team by helping with queries relating to prescription requests and look for ways to improve the efficiency and safety of the prescription issuing process, ensuring queries are resolved and scripts issued in line with the practice prescribing protocol timeframe (usually 2 working days)

Please see Job Description for full details.