Are you a dedicated and forward-thinking Pharmacy Technician looking for an opportunity to make a real impact on children's healthcare?
We are looking for a passionate individual to join our team in Surrey, supporting the Lead Pharmacist in driving medicines optimisation across Children’s Services.
In this role, you will work collaboratively with clinical and operational teams to enhance medicines safety, governance, and effectiveness. Your responsibilities will include supporting audits and action plans, monitoring prescribing practices, and ensuring that learning from medicine-related incidents is shared across services. You will also contribute to internal service reviews and help identify areas that require additional support.
As a key part of our team, you will play a vital role in ensuring compliance with statutory medicines optimisation requirements and Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards.
You will also have the opportunity to contribute to innovation in medicines optimisation, working closely with teams who provide care to children, young people, and families across Surrey.
Base
Our Healthy Family Teams support our Surrey-wide service, and you will be based at one of our Office Hubs across Surrey with the opportunity for hybrid working.
HCRG Care Group is a flexible-first employer, whilst you will have an office base, our teams are agile and work in flexible/hybrid arrangements.
Package DescriptionAs a Pharmacy Technician within our Childrens Services Team in Surrey, we value you and your wellbeing, offering a range of benefits to help you feel supported and appreciated:
Competitive Pay & Pension: Enjoy a Band 5 Agenda for Change salary and NHS pension benefits.
Professional Growth: Join our Strive for Better networks, connecting with NHS professionals nationwide to share insights and develop leading care practices.
Exclusive Rewards: Access discounts and premium offers at national supermarkets, well-known retailers, and indulgent treats like Virgin Experience Days through our Reward Gateway.
Wellbeing Support: Benefit from our 24/7 free wellbeing service, offering access to counselors, career coaching, legal advice, and more.
Flexible Pay Options: Use Wagestream to track your earnings and access your wages as you need them, without worrying about high-interest loans or overdrafts.
Learning & Development: Advance your career with support from our Learning and Development team, who collaborate with universities and Health Education England. Access e-learning, career pathways, and funding opportunities to help you grow.
Recognition & Involvement: Celebrate achievements with local and national awards, contribute ideas to improve services, and stay informed through regular updates from our leadership team.
Main Responsibilities
Promote best practices in medicines optimisation within the Business Unit.
Build and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues, partner organisations, and commissioning bodies.
Contribute to Integrated Care Board (ICB) system initiatives related to medicines optimisation.
Support data analysis, clinical audits, and incident reporting, providing insights and recommendations.
Deliver written and verbal reports on medicines-related activities.
Assist in developing and implementing standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Conduct audits, site inspections, and provide feedback to enhance medicines governance.
Support governance of Patient Group Directions (PGDs) and Non-Medical Prescribing.
Ensure safe medicine use, handling, and clinical governance integration across services.
Provide medicines-related training and support staff competency in Medicines Management.
Contribute to audit development in controlled drugs, antimicrobials, PGDs, and MAR charts.
Represent the Lead Pharmacist at local medicines management meetings.
Adapt to changing clinical, organisational, and professional demands while prioritising tasks effectively.
Stay updated on legislative, regulatory, and professional standards.
Adhere to GPhC and RPS ethical and professional guidelines.
Maintain professional accountability and commit to ongoing Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities
The Ideal CandidateWe’d love to hear from you if:
Essential
Registered Qualified Pharmacy Technician holding an NVQ Level 3 or other relevant qualification.
Knowledge of legislation and good practice in relation to medicines in community services
Ability to work autonomously and as part of a wider multidisciplinary team
Good interpersonal skills and ability to communicate with clinicians, healthcare professionals and patients
Have a planned and organised approach with an ability to prioritise own workload to meet strict deadlines.
Ability to motivate self and others
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Excellent IT skills
Decision making and prioritisation skills with good attention to detail and accuracy.
Desirable
Previous experience of using ePACT data
Previous experience in community health services or primary care
Other requirements: Access to a car insured for business use, enabling site visits Surrey-wide.
Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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