IPOCH Senior Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician

Mid Cheshire Hospitals - NHS Foundation; Crewe; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits a motivated pharmacy technician to join a multidisciplinary team focused on enhancing patient care. In this role, you will support medication reviews in community settings, ensuring patients' needs are met post-discharge. You will be instrumental in developing new pharmacy roles and providing training to staff, fostering seamless communication between healthcare providers. Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to delivering high-quality healthcare and making a positive impact in the community. If you are passionate about patient care and innovation, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Registered pharmacy technician with experience in hospital or community services.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Conduct medicines assessments and support hospital discharge processes.
• Provide training and technical advice on medication safety.

Skills

Medicines assessments

Teamwork in MDT

Training delivery

IT Skills

Full UK Driving License

Education

Pharmacy Technician Registered with GPHC

Accredited Accuracy Technician

Leadership Qualification

Pharmacy Technician Clinical Pharmacy Diploma

Job description

NHS AfC: Band 6

Main area: Pharmacy

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 412-COMM-6764041

Site: Leighton Hospital

Town: Crewe

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 16/02/2025 23:59

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust holds a Sponsor Licence. This means that we MAY be able to sponsor you IF the UK Government requirements for sponsorship are met. Not all NHS roles are eligible for sponsorship.

Job overview

Are you a pharmacy technician looking for a new challenge? Do you have innovative ideas and are looking for the right team to impact positive change? Are you looking to join a multidisciplinary (MDT) team where you can develop new skills as well as teach others?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic, and highly motivated pharmacy technician to join our Integrated Placement of Care Hub (IPOCH) in a new pharmacy role to support direct patient care and be part of our community team within Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership.

The postholder will be required to work across all CCICP geographical locations to support the review of medication within patients’ homes and in temporary residential care home settings. The postholder will be a registered pharmacy technician and an accuracy checker for checking dispensed prescriptions in accordance with Trust procedures.

The IPOCH service now supports a number of discharge services including our hospital discharge team, transfer of care hub, home care, and community bed-based services. This team plays a significant role in supporting the flow out of hospital and providing admission avoidance support across the community.

This role will require enthusiasm, self-motivation, and commitment to developing new pharmacy roles within IPOCH, developing seamless pharmaceutical care for patients across traditional health and social care boundaries, and forging excellent communication between primary and secondary care.

Main duties of the job

The postholder will:

• Carry out medicines assessments to include communication of highly complex information in the home on a 1 to 1 basis with the patients/their representatives/other healthcare professionals if appropriate.
• Work on an MDT level in both primary and secondary care to deliver patient-focused care in the community and ensure that the individual patients’ medicines support needs are met.
• Support hospital discharge processes so that patients identified in hospital as having medicines support needs are followed up on discharge to ensure people with long-term conditions can safely take or be administered medicines as prescribed in the home setting.
• Review patients in hospital or temporary residential care home settings to develop care planning in relation to medication support needs.
• Provide specialist training including delivering training and competency assessing General Nursing Assistants (GNAs) and IPOCH registered nurses in medicines administration, medicines reconciliation, and transcribing.
• Provide specialist technical advice and undertake medicines reviews within clinical competence.
• Be responsible for service development, audit, and line management of pharmacy technicians working within IPOCH.

Working for our organisation

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester (population 357K). The Trust provides high-quality planned and emergency care, cardiac, critical care, child health, maternity services, and intermediate care at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.

The Trust provides over 500 beds and employs over 5,100 members of staff. A comprehensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools through our Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe, and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. 92% of our staff, when surveyed in 2020, felt that their role made a difference to their patients, and we are recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.

The community arm of MCHFT, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), provides a unique local health partnership across a range of community services for people in South Cheshire and Vale Royal.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role will encompass:

• Medicines reconciliation for patients under the IPOCH GNA service.
• Transcribing, and supporting the transcribing of, IPOCH GNA Medicines Administration Record charts.
• Completing medication-related assessments to help the MDT determine if medication support is required in the community.
• Providing patient education around medication and assessment of medication-related support aids.
• Provide technical advice on medicines-related safety and effectiveness issues and care plans to patients, practice staff, care home staff, GPs, and other health professionals in health and social care.
• Providing advice for patients, IPOCH registered nurses, and IPOCH GNAs on administration and handling of medicines.
• Working with the MCHFT and CCICP Multidisciplinary Teams as well as pharmacy colleagues from across the wider system.
• Supporting training and education of staff within the IPOCH service around medicines management.
• Answering medicines-related queries within the scope of competence.
• Completing audits and participating in service improvement projects.
• Ensuring safe practice and reducing medication-associated risk.
• Acting as the lead pharmacy technician for IPOCH, providing line management to other pharmacy technicians, and taking the lead on service development and continuous improvement within the service.

The successful candidate will be able to use their skills and knowledge to strive to deliver a high-quality pharmacy service within IPOCH. This post will be ideal for a pharmacy technician who is motivated by direct patient care, service improvement, and innovation, wants to work collaboratively, and who wants to make a positive impact.

It will be expected that the successful candidate will hold a pharmacy technician clinical pharmacy diploma or will undertake within 2 years of starting the role.

Please see attached job description and person specification for more information.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Pharmacy Technician Registered with GPHC
• Accredited Accuracy Technician (or working towards)
• Leadership Qualification

Experience

• Post Qualification Experience in Hospital, Primary Care, or Community Services
• Experience of Audit
• Experience of delivering training
• Experience of supervisor line management

Skills

• Full UK Driving License
• Experience of working in an MDT
• IT Skills

Key Messages

Please let us know if you require an adjustment to our recruitment process.

We are a flexible working employer, so please talk to us about any flexible working requirements.

All correspondence will be sent to the email address you have registered as your TRAC account.

Selection is based on the Trust's values, and the criteria outlined in the Job Description for the role.

Secondments will be considered for fixed term positions when both parties agree. Candidates should seek approval from their current line manager before application.

Appointments are subject to a 6-month probationary period. LED Doctors are subject to a 3-month probationary period.

Please provide a contact email address for referees. We will not request references until after you have been made a formal job offer.

You will be required to pay for your DBS disclosure (where the post requires one). This will be done via 3 monthly instalments from your pay. We encourage applicants to join and remain registered with the DBS update service.

Employers have a legal responsibility to ensure that their employees have a “right to work” in the UK. If you intend to seek permission to work in the UK via a Skilled Worker visa, please be aware that the UK Government set eligibility requirements e.g. minimum salary requirement and skill levels. Not all NHS roles are eligible for sponsorship.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name: Calvin Chan

Job title: Divisional Pharmacist CCICP

Email address: [e-mail]

Telephone number: 07551452112

Additional information: Also able to contact Steph Stalgis IPOCH Matron on 01270 273025 for further information if needed.

If you have problems applying, contact

Address: Leighton Hospital
Middlewich Road
Crewe
Cheshire
CW1 4QJ

Telephone: [e-mail]