Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician

Northamptongeneral; Kettering; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician to join their expanding team. In this role, you will be integral to the Clinical Pharmacy Service, utilizing your technical and clinical skills to optimize patient care. With opportunities for professional development and a supportive environment, this position is perfect for newly qualified technicians or those seeking a new challenge with direct patient contact. Join a committed team that values compassion, accountability, and integrity, and help enhance the quality of care for patients across the region. Your contributions will be vital in ensuring safe and effective medication management in a dynamic healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Newly qualified or experienced Pharmacy Technicians are encouraged to apply.
• Training provided for technical and clinical responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide safe, effective medicines optimisation for patient care.
• Assist in daily pharmacy services and patient discharge preparations.
• Support Advanced Pharmacy Technicians in managing workloads.

Skills

Clinical skills

Technical pharmacy skills

Patient counselling

Medicines reconciliation

Education

Pharmacy Technician qualification

Job description

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The role of Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician has significantly expanded over the past few years, largely due to the success of our Dedicated Ward Pharmacy (DWP) service. Our Pharmacy Technicians are now taking on more clinical duties and responsibilities, and we are also extending our services into new areas such as Theatres, Critical Care, Emergency Department, Oncology, Maternity, and Paediatrics.

We are a highly supportive and motivated team, always striving to provide the best possible care for our patients. Our Medicines Management Pharmacy Technicians regularly attend conferences and exhibitions. For example, some of our team showcased their posters at the Clinical Congress and two Technicians spoke at the APTUK conference 2024. We strongly encourage our team to enrol on courses to enhance their skills and knowledge.

Many of our Pharmacy Technicians have been with us for over 10 years, which we believe is a true testament to our team. If you are a newly qualified Pharmacy Technician or currently working in a different sector and looking for a new challenge with direct patient contact, this role could be perfect for you. We offer a band 4-5 development programme to help you grow into the role and the environment.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Be an integral part of the Clinical Pharmacy Service, utilising technical and clinical skills when trained and competent to provide safe, effective medicines optimisation of patient care.
2. Be responsible for the provision of the technical pharmacy services to assigned wards, including daily visits, medicines reconciliation, assessment of patients’ own medicines, counselling patients, preparing for patients discharge, ensuring medication is available on the wards, and supporting wards with medicines management.
3. Assist Advanced/Principal Pharmacy Technicians/Pharmacists to provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care to patients.
4. Assist in the provision of ward-based activities.
5. Assist in the provision of medicines for the treatment of patients.
6. Assist the Principal/Advanced Pharmacy Technicians in co-ordinating and managing the Medicine Management workload.
7. Use technical and pharmaceutical skills to ensure control, security, quality and value for money of medicines.
8. Assist in Directorate responsibilities.

Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values:

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Integrity
• Courage

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Name: David Still
Job title: Advanced Pharmacy Technician
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 01604 544534

If you would like to arrange a visit or to discuss the role further, please contact me.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Health Care Provider
• Industries: Hospitals and Health Care