PharmacyTechnicians can help play an important role, complimenting clinicalpharmacists, community pharmacists and other members of the PCNmulti-disciplinary team. While Pharmacy Technicians do not prescribe nor make clinical decisions, they do work under supervision to ensurethe effective and efficient use of medicines. In the PCN, their coreresponsibilities can cover clinical, technical, and administrative roles.

Thepurpose of the role is to maximise safe and cost-effective prescribing, to improve the quality of patient care. The post-holder will help patients get thebest from their medicines, use existing protocols to maximise cost-effectivepreparations, improve repeat prescribing processes (including use of electronicrepeat dispensing and online ordering), minimising clinical risk and reducingavoidable medicines wastage. The post-holder will also develop and encourage apositive culture of medicines optimisation principles, to assist the PCN inachieving local an...