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Pharmacy Accuracy Checking Technician

Aspley, Nottingham

35hrs a week Monday to Friday

£ Competitive

 Come and join the Vantage family. We are an independent family-run Community Pharmacy striving to provide fabulous service to all our patients. We are located in the heart of the community adjacent to a health centre. We are looking for a Pharmacy Technician (ACT) to join us for a minimum of 6 months. We require someone who is currently working at ACT level and who possesses a checking qualification and is registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) with relevant recent community pharmacy experience.

How will you do it?

Provide expert technical knowledge on the accurate supply of the medicines we dispense and services we offer, letting customers know that we are here to help.

Build great relationships with the Pharmacy team and inspire them to work to a high standard to ensure we give our customers and patients the best care possible.

Look at where we can improve, whether it’s the services we offer or our approach to providing outstanding customer care. You’ll be part of helping us get the best from our team.

What you’ll be doing day-to-day

You will be leading our dispensing activities. Working with our team to accurately check patient prescriptions, whilst meeting regulatory and company standards.

Inspire our team to be the best and continually provide real personable customer service that our patients can trust.

Your duties will include:

• Responsibility for legal, safe & ethical decision-making in the pharmacy

• Conducting a final accuracy check for prescriptions that have been clinically checked by a pharmacist

• Complying with legal and professional requirements

• Having bespoke conversations with every customer to ensure they leave our pharmacy feeling informed and confident about their healthcare needs and coaching other pharmacy team members to do the same

• Seeking opportunities to engage external stakeholders to secure locally commissioned services and drive services and items

• Delivering efficient dispensary operations and ensuring dispensing losses are minimised

• Ordering medicines, labelling, dispensing and endorsing prescriptions

• Dealing with all sorts of patient/prescriber/wholesaler queries and being able to resolve these quickly and efficiently

What you’ll need to have:

You’ll need to have lots of Pharmacy experience and be registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

 Pharmacist (Part Time)

Aspley, Nottingham

20hrs a week Monday to Friday

£ Competitive 

As a pharmacist you will be providing excellent customer and patient care listening to and inspiring others whilst giving them your expert advice and reassurance. You will embrace new services and engage in NMS, DMS, Seasonal Flu vaccinations and a range of private services.

• Accountable for legal and ethical decisions in the pharmacy
• Helping to build pharmacy capability
• Conducting continual review through audit, observations and risk assessment to ensure customer and patient safety is paramount
• Delivering a range of professional pharmacy services

Key Duties

• Able to provide a high standard of customer care in order to deliver key service and business objectives
• Helping to manage the business in compliance with the duties set out by the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Providing leadership to the Pharmacy staff
• Helping to ensuring the safe and effective delivery of the Contract
• Driving business and service developments forward
• Identifying and implementing opportunities for innovative services

Key Skills 

To be successful in this role you will have a professional, caring character and a true desire to help others feel good. In addition, you will:

• Be a fully qualified pharmacist registered with the GPhC 
• A strong service background and drive to implement services and increase prescription volume
• Demonstrate high levels of professional expertise and be widely respected by stakeholders, peers, patients, customers and external local professionals
• Have a passion for community pharmacy and providing the best care for our customers.
• Have a love of working collaboratively with a team-centred approach
• Have excellent knowledge of pharmacy operations and the provisions of national and local services
• Role model communication skills; you will hold excellent face to face interactions to effectively meet the varied needs of customers and patients in pharmacy

Package and Benefits

• Weekday working Monday to Friday (typically 10am to 2pm and no weekends)
• On-site parking
• Working alongside a well-established, professional team of dispensers/ assistance. Supportive atmosphere where you can have fun whilst working.

This role is subject to a DBS check, and we will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis. You will have the opportunity to discuss the matter with us before we make a decision.