Clinical Medicines Management Technician

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Cambridge is seeking a Clinical Technician in Medicines Management. This role involves coordinating technician services, training staff, and ensuring compliance with legal standards. Candidates will need significant pharmacy experience and relevant qualifications, with a focus on quality service delivery and patient counselling.

Qualifications

• Significant post-qualification hospital pharmacy experience.
• Experience in developing standard operating procedures.
• Knowledge of NHS policies and medicines management procedures.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate operational work of the technician medicines management service.
• Educate and train student pharmacy technicians.
• Manage pharmacy support workers and ensure service delivery.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Multi-disciplinary team working

Problem solving

Education

BTEC/NVQ3 Pharmaceutical Sciences

Accredited Checking Technician Qualification

Registration with GPhC

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

1. To co-ordinate the operational work of the clinical technician medicines management service ensuring optimum use of technician and pharmacist time.
2. To regularly plan and allocate the wards and teams between the medicines management technicians to provide adequate cover for each activity, prioritising and directing as required to ensure that optimum service delivery is maintained.
3. To provide education and training for student pharmacy technicians and foundation trainee pharmacists within the clinical medicines management service role and generally for pharmacy support workers.
4. To identify the need for, prepare and revise Standard Operating Procedures and other policy documentation relating to the clinical medicines management service to ensure working practices comply with legal and quality standards.
5. To propose develop and implement policies and procedures for the clinical medicines management services to develop the service for the benefit of pharmacy staff, ward/team staff, service users and carers. Plan the implementation of changes in the policies and manage the change appropriately.
6. Participation in medication history screening on wards, often involving problem solving, communication with service users, carers, GPs and other health professionals.
7. Participate in medicines management schemes on the wards (including patient's own drugs (PODs), self-administration, medicines reconciliation and non-stock top ups in other areas.
8. Undertake counselling of service users about their medicines and provide information and advice about medicines to service users, carers and other health professionals e.g., medical and nursing staff.
9. Have active involvement in discharge planning for service users ensuring a seamless medicines pathway into primary care.
10. Participate in Trust wide medicines management initiatives.
11. Provide education and training about medicines management to nursing staff and other professionals
12. Contribute to the safe and efficient running of pharmacy clozapine services.
13. To undertake dispensing of medicines including using the pharmacy labelling and stock control computer system for inpatient and outpatients, dispensary accuracy checking of prescriptions and patient counselling, as appropriate.
14. To ensure good stock control in the dispensary and on the wards in conjunction with the pharmacy support workers and the dispensary manager.
15. Manage and supervise the pharmacy support workers in the absence of the Dispensary Manager.
16. Dispense medicines and provide annual leave or sickness cover for other team members if required.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria

• BTEC/NVQ3 Pharmaceutical Sciences or CGLI/Apothecaries Hall pre 1985 or equivalent.
• Accredited Checking Technician Qualification.
• Registration with GPhC

Desirable criteria

• Medicines Management qualification (to degree level or equivalent).
• Patient counselling qualification.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant post qualification experience.
• Experience in hospital pharmacy, multidisciplinary team working, research, clinical trials or audit, pharmacy standard operating procedure development.

Desirable criteria

• Mental health speciality
• Project/change management role
• Management of resources

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria

• Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, listening)
• Experience of multi disciplinary team working
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with other staff and service users

Desirable criteria

• Effective project management

Knowledge and understanding

Essential criteria

• Evidence of specialist knowledge relating to technical pharmacy issues and procedures
• Knowledge of medicines management procedures eg PODs, self-administration
• Up to date knowledge of NHS and other relevant policies.

Desirable criteria

• Involvement in postgraduate training
• Specialist knowledge of the dispensing Clozapine

Other

Essential criteria

• Approach that is suitable to mental health/learning disabilities
• Sets high standards and strives to acheive
• Pro-active and displays initiative

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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