Senior Pharmacy Technician
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
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Job overview
Responsible for delivering, managing and developing management of medicines within Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust.
Lead on the development of a culture of continuous learning and quality improvement, working closely to advise and guide service managers.
Expectation to support Virtual Wards and Discharge to Assess in the Community.
No Weekends
Outstanding CQC rating
Cross working with other sectors ie Acute Trust, ICB, Community Pharmacy
Varied services – Urgent Care, Sexual Health, Community Nursing, Community Wards and many more
Forefront of innovation
New ways of working with a growing Pharmacy team
Main duties of the job
1. To ensure that medicines related stock processes are undertaken in line with Trust policies and current medicines legislation. Ensuring stock lists are regularly reviewed with operational staff and specialist pharmacy services.
2. Joint responsibility, along with all other medicines management staff, pharmacists and ward technicians, for the safety and security of all medicines including controlled drugs.
3. Participate with other staff, including pharmacists, in ensuring the appropriate / effective use of medicines for patients within all operational services; ensuring medicines related problems are dealt with promptly and by an appropriate person.
4. Participate in the medicines related training of clinical based staff, communicating medicines management and technical information to services and individual staff members.
5. Supervise stock management processes within clinical services and advise on practice and process. Ensure that prescribing and supply is undertaken to reflect the contents of the Lincolnshire Joint formulary, challenging where appropriate. To collect data from various sources to provide reports e.g. from NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) and services and finance teams to monitor activity in conjunction with guidelines and formularies and present to Drug and Therapeutics committee.
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