Senior Medicines Optimisation Technician Lead

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.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and experienced Senior Medicines Optimisation Technician to join the KCHFT-LMO Medicines Optimisation Team. This key role will support the delivery of the Medicines Optimisation Strategy, helping to meet the pharmaceutical care needs of the local population and improve patient outcomes across primary care services.

Working collaboratively with GP practices, Primary Care Networks (PCNs), prescribers, and wider healthcare professionals, you will play a pivotal role in promoting the safe, effective, and evidence-based use of medicines.

Main duties of the job

• Support prescribers and practice teams in the safe, effective, and cost-efficient use of medicines.
• Undertake medicines-related reviews, audits, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Analyse and utilise prescribing and patient data systems to identify opportunities for optimisation and improved patient care.
• Contribute to the delivery of medicines optimisation priorities, including QIPP (Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention) programmes and medicines safety initiatives.
• Lead and support innovative projects that enhance medicines optimisation across GP practices and Primary Care Networks.Provide mentoring, guidance, and professional support to pharmacy technicians and other members of the medicines optimisation team.
• Promote and encourage safe, evidence-based prescribing practices in line with national and local guidance.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams to improve patient outcomes, reduce medicines-related risks, and ensure high-quality pharmaceutical care.

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 kentchft.recruitment@nhs.net, 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.

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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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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.