Band 5 Clinical Pharmacy Technician

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Clinical Pharmacy Technician to support delivery of clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation across inpatient wards, collaborating with pharmacists, doctors and nurses to improve patient outcomes.

The role focuses on medicines reconciliation, review of patients' own medicines, discharge planning, and providing medicines-related advice to patients and carers, with opportunities to contribute to audits and quality

Responsibilities

• Undertake medicines reconciliation and accurate medication history taking.
• Assess and manage patients' own medicines to support safe and effective treatment.
• Support medicines supply processes, including ordering and discharge planning.
• Provide counselling and medicines-related advice to patients and carers.
• Contribute to medicines optimisation initiatives and quality improvement projects.
• Support audit, governance and assurance activities, including medicines security and controlled drug standards.
• Deliver medicines management training and support to ward staff.

Job description

Are you an enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician looking to develop your clinical skills and make a real difference to patient care?An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and patient-focused Clinical Pharmacy Technician to join our Pharmacy Team at Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust. In this role, you will support the delivery of high-quality clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation services across our inpatient wards, working closely with pharmacists, doctors, nurses and the wider multidisciplinary team.This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced forward thinking Pharmacy Technician who is passionate about improving patient outcomes, enhancing medication safety and contributing to the ongoing development of clinical pharmacy services.

Main Duties of the Job

• Undertake medicines reconciliation and accurate medication history taking.
• Assess and manage patients' own medicines to support safe and effective treatment.
• Support medicines supply processes, including ordering and discharge planning.
• Provide counselling and medicines-related advice to patients and carers.
• Contribute to medicines optimisation initiatives and quality improvement projects.
• Support audit, governance and assurance activities, including medicines security and controlled drug standards.
• Deliver medicines management training and support to ward staff.

The post is full-time (37.5 hours per week) and includes participation in weekend and bank holiday rotas., The post holder will assist the Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician in the provision of clinical pharmacy technical services to wards and departments. They will assist in the provision of a medicines optimisation service including providing of medicines reconciliation, assessment of patients own medicines, ordering and supply of medicines and discharge support in terms of pre-screening discharge medicines in order support to the wider clinical pharmacy team. They will assist in the updating of procedures; partake in audits and systems for the monitoring, organisation and supply of medicines during the patients admission and discharge.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen's and get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.