Pharmacy Technician- Community Hospitals

Job overview

We are looking for a registered Pharmacy Technician to join our team based in Tonbridge Cottage Hospital.

Our Pharmacy Service actively tries to ensure that medicines are optimised for individual patients, that they are empowered to manage their own medications whilst in Hospital and educated to prevent avoidable future admissions and keep them safe in their own normal place of residence. Discharges are paramount and collaborative working across healthcare sectors plays a key role in keeping patients safe.

Working with the wider Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) our patient centred approach is demonstrated by all those in the Pharmacy Team from the moment the patient enters the organisation, through their Community Hospital admission to their safe discharge.

Main duties of the job

You will provide a comprehensive medicine management service to the community hospital wards.

• Making judgments on how to manage workload
• Completing comprehensive medicines reconciliation on admission including checking and documenting specified blood results and highlighting to pharmacist where further review of a patient’s medication is required and interpreting and applying information retrieved from medical and nursing notes with regards to medicines reconciliation and prescribing issues
• Checking patient’s own medication (PODs) to aid in problem solving and to adequately manage medicines orders.
• Managing the supply of medicines during admission alongside the Pharmacy Support Workers to reduce the impact of missed doses of medicines on a patients care.
• Ensuring compliance with prescribing guidelines and with local formularies
• Being involved discharge facilitation, supporting self administration of medicines, providing patient counselling, making appropriate referrals to support services to help ensure patients (or their carers) go home safely able

Additional Working Pattern: 22.5 hours over 3 days

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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