Pharmacy Technician

Job overview

This post is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Pharmacy Technician to work as a member of the Virtual Frailty Ward Team within North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust. The role will focus on promotion of safe, rational, effective, and economic use of medicines used in Virtual Ward patients. The role will include conducting medicine reconciliation for these patients, ensuring that safe and effective clinical interventions are made as appropriate. The post holder will provide pharmaceutical advice to members of the Virtual Ward Multi- disciplinary Team (MDT) with the support of the clinical pharmacist team. The post holder will be expected to be an active member of the virtual ward MDT, providing feedback to virtual ward rounds when required. There will be an expectation that the post holder will support in delivery of training to members of the virtual ward MDT on the safe use of medicines and medicines optimisation. Provide responses to queries from nurses and other healthcare professionals, referring any clinical issues to the Pharmacist.

This is a newly developed role & will enable the successful candidate to be instrumental in developing & improving a strongly patient-centred approach

Main duties of the job

The key functions of this role are to provide medicines reconciliation; promote safe & effective use of medicines in community settings for people accessing the Virtual Frailty Ward (VFW); to be a resource for other members of the MDT; to function as an effective member of the VFW MDT & actively participate in reviewing the effectiveness of the role & how this might evolve to deliver the most positive outcomes for this group of patients.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The key functions of this role are to provide medicines reconciliation; promote safe & effective use of medicines in community settings for people accessing the Virtual Frailty Ward (VFW); to be a resource for other members of the MDT; to function as an effective member of the VFW MDT & actively participate in reviewing the effectiveness of the role & how this might evolve to deliver the most positive outcomes for this group of patient