Pharmacy Technician- Community Hospitals

Job overview

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts, the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Medway Community Healthcare. Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.

Working as part of a skilled team of Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacy Support Workers, you will provide a comprehensive medicines management service to the community hospital wards, focusing on medicines reconciliation, patient counselling, supporting self administration, and discharge facilitation

You will be fully supported with your training and development and benefit from the wealth of training available to the Pharmacy team, including clinical and management, and leadership opportunities.

Pharmacy services are highly regarded by both patients and Trust staff and the high profile of our service and the positive feedback we receive make it a stimulating and rewarding place to work.

The post does not include participation in weekend, Bank Holiday and late duty rotas

This is a 12 month Fixed Term / Secondment post for Maternity Cover

Main duties of the job

• Undertake a Medicines Reconciliation for all patients on admission and know how best to obtain accurate and up-to-date information about a patient’s medication using the sources of information available
• Identify, investigate and resolve prescription discrepancies.
• Interpret and apply information retrieved from medical and nursing notes with regards to medicines reconciliation and prescribing issues
• Check patient’s own medication (PODs) to aid in problem solving and to adequately manage medicines supply.
• Update EPMA system with appropriate extra information as required to aid prescribing and administration.
• Identify patient’s pharmaceutical care needs, e.g. support with compliance.
• Assist in discharge planning as part of the multidisciplinary team.
• Provide verbal and written medicines related advice and information for patients and/or carers regarding prescribed medication and their devices with the primary aim of improving patient outcomes through medicines optimisation

Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected], quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.

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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