Senior Pharmacy Technician Mental Health Services

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated GPhC registered Senior Pharmacy Technician to join the Powys Teaching Health Board Pharmacy team to cover mental health services. We are looking for someone with significant hospital experience and strong communication, leadership and organisational skills and who is motivated and passionate about patient care and wants to improve patient services.

Working closely with the Lead Pharmacist for Mental Health Services and wider pharmacy team, you will play a key role in ensuring the safe, effective and person centred use of medicines across inpatient wards, community mental health services and will provide some support to primary care colleagues around mental health medicines. This is a senior role with responsibility for medicines governance, service development and clinical support within a multidisciplinary mental health team.

The post offers a permanent post of up to 37.5 hours per week, the role will be a Powys wide role with support for inpatient areas within south and mid Powys. There can be flexibility in hours worked and in base within mid or south Powys.

Main duties of the job

You will support a wide range of mental health services including adult and older adult mental health, learning disabilities, community mental health teams, crisis services, substance misuse and dementia care, with links to CAMHS and perinatal services.

Key responsibilities include:

• Ensuring safe and secure handling of medicines, including controlled drugs.
• Medicines reconciliation, discharge planning and patient counselling
• Clinical prioritisation of patients and identification of high risk cases
• Supporting medicines optimisation, efficiencies and agreed therapeutic switches
• Leading and contributing to SOPs, policies, audit and service development

You will attend ward rounds and MDT meetings, provide medicines advice across care settings and support high standards of medicines safety and governance.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.