Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician Community and Mental Health

Job overview

We have an exciting and innovative opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 5 Pharmacy Technician to join our dynamic Medicines Management  team. This is a unique role for an experienced pharmacy technician who is enthusiastic about improving patient outcomes and expanding their clinical skills across a variety of care settings, including community hospitals, mental health services, domiciliary visits, and virtual wards.

You will become part of our experienced team of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians delivering pharmacy services to patients across Dorset, whether in a healthcare setting or within their own homes. The post covers the Sherborne, Shaftesbury and Mid Dorset localities, offering a diverse and rewarding patient population.

Following a comprehensive induction and training programme, you will have the opportunity to spend two days per week working alongside our innovative Hospital at Home teams as part of an exciting Quality Improvement Project for a minimum of six months. This project will explore and shape the future development of the Pharmacy Technician role within this rapidly evolving service, providing a fantastic opportunity to influence service delivery and develop specialist expertise.

In this rewarding role, you will work closely with patients and multidisciplinary teams to ensure individuals gain the greatest benefit from their medicines through medicines optimisation interventions in both community hospital and domiciliary settings.

Main duties of the job

Applications from candidates that require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are unfortunately ineligible to apply for this position.

Pharmacy technicians play an important role, complementing clinical pharmacists,  and other members of the multi-disciplinary team providing services either in a care setting, virtual ward or domiciliary setting.

Pharmacy technicians’ core role responsibilities will cover clinical, and technical and administrative categories.

You should be able to:

Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles.

Undertake medicines optimisation in community hospitals, virtual ward and domiciliary setting.

Support medication reviews and medicines reconciliation.

Provide specialist expertise, where competent.

Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship.

Work with the virtual ward MDT to ensure efficient medicines optimisation

Provide training / support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines

Develop relationships and work with practice teams and community pharmacies.

Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance

Undertake clinical audits, support quality improvement measures and contribute to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services

Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation incentive schemes and patient safety audits

Provide leadership for medicines management systems across all services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification.  When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.

We understand that AI can be a useful tool when completing your application. However, we are seeing an increasing over-reliance of AI tools, which can negatively affect your application as it reduces a candidate’s individuality, and makes it difficult for us to gain a clear and authentic understanding of your experience, skills, and in turn your suitability for the role.

All submissions must be truthful and if you do use AI, it should only be used to enhance your application and not create your supporting statement in its entirety. Your supporting statement should be in your own words and must accurately reflect your personal experience and achievements.  Where we have concerns that AI has been used to generate content that misrepresents your experience and suitability for the role, we may withdraw your application.

As part of our vision to have a skilled, diverse and caring workforce, Dorset HealthCare offers support for people getting into work. We offer an employability service to support individuals with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. If you would like or know of anyone who would value this support, please do contact [email protected]

Employment in this post requires an Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of.