Senior Pharmacy Technician - Medicines Management

Job overview

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.

You will need to have excellent communication skills and enjoy working as part of a 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.

Main duties of the job

Your primary role being to undertake medicines reconciliation and take drug histories in order to ensure the patients receive the correct medications right from the start of their hospital stay to ensure that there is appropriate usage of Patient's Own medication and to promote one stop dispensing.

You will be involved throughout the patient journey helping the wards to ensure TTOs are dispensed prior to discharge, communicating effectively with other healthcare colleagues when appropriate.

You will be an accredited checking technician (ACPT) and will have regular dispensing and checking slots in the dispensary. In liaison with the Lead Pharmacist for Medicines Management and other members of the pharmacy team including the Chief/Lead Pharmacy Technician, you will also be involved in the management of medicines on the wards, audits and financial savings projects.

You will participate in late duty, and weekend rotas.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This is a full time fixed term maternity cover post and the post holder will be required to participate in the weekend working and late duties as per rota.