Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician

London North West Healthcare NHS Trust; City of Westminster; Presencial; GBP 24.000 - 32.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a Pharmacy Technician to join our ward-based medicines management team. You will manage medicines for multiple wards, promote safe and cost-effective use of medications, and help expand the medicines management technician service across the Trust.

You will assist in induction, training and supervision of new staff, and train healthcare colleagues on medicines management.

Formación

• Pharmacy Technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Experience in hospital pharmacy and medicines management.
• Willingness to participate in weekend and late duties.
• Strong communication and training skills.
• Proactive in audits and improving ward-based services.

Responsabilidades

• Provide medicines management service to wards within Emergency, Acute, Medicine, Care of the Elderly and Surgery.
• Promote safe, efficient and cost-effective use of medicines at ward level.
• Support the medicines management pharmacy technician service across the Trust.
• Assist induction, training, supervision and support of new pharmacy staff.
• Assist in training of healthcare staff on medicines management at ward level.
• Participate in audits relating to medicines management.
• Complete medicines reconciliations in a timely manner to meet NICE.
• Assess patients' own drugs (PODs) for suitability for use.
• Order 'one stop dispensing' medications to promote discharge.
• Final accuracy check of prescriptions for ACPT competency (min eight hours per month).
• Provide advice to patients, representatives and healthcare professionals on medication issues.
• Provide technical support to satellite pharmacies and main dispensary.

Conocimientos

Communication skills

Teamwork

Patient-centered

Continuous professional development

Training and supervision

Leadership

Educación

GPhC registered Pharmacy Technician

Descripción del empleo

• Provide a highly efficient medicines management service to a variety of wards within the Emergency, Acute, Medicine, Care of the Elderly and Surgery departments.
• Promote a safe, efficient and cost-effective use of medicines at ward level.
• Support the provision and expansion of the medicines management pharmacy technician service across the Trust
• Assist in the induction, training, supervision and support of new members of pharmacy staff.
• Assist in the training of healthcare staff on all aspects of medicines management at ward level.
• Participate in audits relating to medicines management.
• Complete medicines reconciliations within a timely manner in order to meet NICE
• Assess patients own drugs (PODs) for suitability for use.
• Order 'one stop dispensing' medications in a timely manner to promote the dispensing for discharge scheme.
• Final accuracy check clinically screened prescriptions for a minimum of eight hours per month in the main dispensary or on the satellite pharmacies to maintain the accredited checking pharmacy technician (ACPT) competency.
• Provide advice to patients, representatives and healthcare professionals on all medication issues in order to achieve the best outcomes for the patients.
• Provide technical support to the satellite pharmacies and the main dispensary

To be responsible for own Continuing Professional Development and training development. This is an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacy Technician to join our dynamic, innovative and friendly team dedicated to improving our ward based clinical pharmacy services. We are looking for someone with experience and a passion in this area of work in hospital pharmacy. You must be an enthusiastic, motivated and a patient orientated pharmacy technician dedicated to patient safety. You will work with the medicines management team to help implement, deliver and continually improve the technical and clinical support to wards and satellite units. You will need to have excellent communication skills and enjoy working as part of a large multi-disciplinary team. You will also need to be friendly, approachable, adaptable, flexible, willing to learn new skills and be committed to continuous professional development. You will be a pharmacy technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. This is a full time post and the post holder will be required to participate in the weekend working and late duties as per rota.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond. Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people. We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.