Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician

Job overview

• Provide a highly efficient medicines management service to a variety of wards within the Acute, Medicine, Care of the Elderly and Women’s and Children’s departments.
• Promote a safe, efficient and cost-effective use of medicines at ward level.
• Support the provision and expansion of the medicines management pharmacy technician service across the Trust
• Assist in the induction, training, supervision and support of new members of pharmacy staff.
• Assist in the training of healthcare staff on all aspects of medicines management at ward level.
• Participate in audits relating to medicines management.
• Complete medicines reconciliations within a timely manner in order to meet NICE
• Assess patients own drugs (PODs) for suitability for use.
• Order ‘one stop dispensing’ medications in a timely manner to promote the dispensing for discharge scheme.
• Final accuracy check clinically screened prescriptions for a minimum of eight hours per month in the main dispensary or on the satellite pharmacies to maintain the accredited checking pharmacy technician (ACPT) competency.
• Provide advice to patients, representatives and healthcare professionals on all medication issues in order to achieve the best outcomes for the patients.
• Provide technical support to the satellite pharmacies and the main dispensary
• To be responsible for own Continuing Professional Development and training development.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician to join our dynamic, innovative and friendly team dedicated to improving our ward based clinical pharmacy services. We are looking for someone with experience and a passion in this area of work in hospital pharmacy. You must be an enthusiastic, motivated and a patient orientated pharmacy technician dedicated to patient safety. You will work with the medicines management team to help implement, deliver and continually improve the technical and clinical support to wards and satellite units. You will need to have excellent communication skills and enjoy working as part of a large multi-disciplinary team. You will also need to be friendly, approachable, adaptable, flexible, willing to learn new skills and be committed to continuous professional development. You will be a pharmacy technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council Pharmacy Technician. This is a full time post and the post holder will be required to participate in the weekend working and late duties as per rota.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.