Lead Pharmacy Technician - Virtual Wards, Hospital at Home and OPAT

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Luton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in England is seeking a Lead Pharmacy Technician to enhance patient care through medicines management in various services. The ideal candidate will have strong communication and leadership skills, with experience in medicines reconciliation and a passion for improving patient outcomes. This role involves working closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe and effective medicines use for patients in the community.

Benefits

Access to high-quality training and development

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Highly organised and proactive pharmacy technician.
• Experience in medicines reconciliation and clinical pharmacy services required.
• Passionate about improving patient care.

Responsibilities

• Promote high-quality medicines reconciliation for patients.
• Conduct medicines reconciliation and identify discrepancies.
• Support specialist nursing teams in medicines management.
• Reduce medication-related problems and hospital admissions.
• Contribute to strategic development in domiciliary settings.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Leadership skills

Experience in medicines reconciliation

Clinical pharmacy services experience

Multidisciplinary working

Job description

Overview

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Lead Pharmacy Technician to support the Virtual Ward (VW), Hospital @ Home (H@H), and Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) services. This role offers an exciting opportunity to enhance patient care by ensuring the safe, effective, and efficient use of medicines for patients receiving treatment at home. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to conduct medicines reconciliation, identify and resolve discrepancies, and support specialist nursing teams in medication-related care. Effective communication with hospital teams, GPs, community pharmacies, and social care providers will be essential to ensure seamless transitions of care and accurate medication handovers. You will aim to reduce medication-related problems, prevent avoidable hospital admissions, and minimise medicine waste. In addition to patient-focused responsibilities, you will contribute to policy development, medication safety governance, and cost-effective prescribing within the service.

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Responsibilities

• To promote a high-quality approach to the reconciliation of medicines of patients admitted to the Virtual Ward (inc virtual ward (VW) step-up, VW step down, hospital at home (H@H) and OPAT services) by effective communication with the hospital teams, patients/carers, colleagues in primary and social care and by promoting multidisciplinary and multi-way communications.


• Conduct medicines reconciliation for patients in the Virtual Ward (inc virtual ward (VW) step-up, VW step down, hospital at home (H@H) and OPAT services, identifying discrepancies and resolving them with appropriate clinicians.


• To pro-actively support the specialist nursing teams in planning and providing care in relation to medicines management for patients in the Virtual Ward (inc virtual ward (VW) step-up, VW step down, hospital at home (H@H) and OPAT services).


• To improve patient care, reduce medication related problems, avoidable hospital admissions and reduce drug costs and waste.


• To contribute to the strategic development of support for medicines management in the domiciliary setting in the context of the relationships between the Trust, hospital, other stakeholders and patients in the community.

Qualifications / What we\'re looking for

We are looking for a highly organised and proactive pharmacy technician with excellent communication and leadership skills. Experience in medicines reconciliation, clinical pharmacy services, and multidisciplinary working is desirable. If you are passionate about improving patient care and supporting innovative healthcare models, we would love to hear from you!