Pharmacy Senior Medicine Management Assistant

Derbyshirehealthcareft; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working where possible

Annual leave and employee benefits

Job summary

Derbyshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is seeking a senior medicine management assistant with hospital or community pharmacy experience to join our clinical pharmacy team. The role focuses on providing a safe supply of medicines to patients during inpatient care and on reducing waste across Kingsway Hospital and Radbourne unit.

You will undertake ward-based medicines management, governance audits, training of staff, and occasional work on other wards.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent.
• Experience in hospital or community pharmacy is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Ward-based medicines management, including inpatient repeat top-ups and stock checks.
• Medicines governance audits on inpatient wards and community teams.
• Support dispensing and distribution tasks as required.
• Travel between trust sites to carry out medicine management duties.

Education

NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Services

Tools

Electronic prescribing system

Job description

At Derbyshire Healthcare Foundation Trust we have an exciting opportunity for a senior medicine management assistant who has previous experience of working in either a hospital or community pharmacy and has a minimum of a NVQ level 2 in Pharmacy services or equivalent to work within our clinical pharmacy team. This post is being advertised due to the current post holder starting a pre registration trainee pharmacy technician role within the department.

The role will focus on providing a safe supply of medicines to our patients during their inpatient admission, reducing medication waste and carrying out governance audits to inpatient wards at Kingsway Hospital and Radbourne unit with occasion working on our inpatient wards at Derwent Unit and Walton Hospital. Visits to community mental health bases will also be undertaken to carry out quarterly medicine management audits.

Regular weekly sessions within the pharmacy dispensary or distribution area at Kingsway Hospital will be required.

Main duties of the job

Ward-based medicines management

• Undertake inpatient repeat top-ups, process medication orders through the electronic prescribing system for supply.
• Check ward medicine stocks and identify shortages and reorder.
• Support appropriate storage, security and organisation of medicines.
• Help reduce medicine wastage and identify opportunities to return or reuse medicines appropriately.
• Support the pharmacy team with ward-based medicines management, ensuring medicine information, resources, posters are up to date to support patient care.

2. Medicines governance and audit

• Complete medicines management governance audits on inpatient wards and community teams.
• Check compliance with medicines storage and management standards.
• Record findings and elevate issues to the Medicines Management Pharmacy Technicians and Ward Managers
• Support implementation of actions arising from audits.
• Complete trust Datix incidents
• Escalate discrepancies or concerns to the appropriate pharmacy professional.
• Work directly with ward staff and the wider multidisciplinary team.
• Help ensure patients receive their medicines safely and in a timely manner.
• Provide dispensing and distribution support when required.
• Carry out specific training of team members once in house competencies have been achieved.
• Independently travel between trust sites

About us

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of making a positive difference in people's lives.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD overall, commenting on how our colleagues treated patients with compassion and kindness and felt positive and proud about working for the trust.

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Access to Vivup
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBTI+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

Structured learning and development opportunities

Job responsibilities

Ward/Team/Governance

Ensure the temperature readings in the clinic room and refrigerator are recorded daily and report any out-of-range temperatures using Datix. Provide training to staff to ensure temperatures are taken and recorded correctly.

To undertake stock top-up services to wards and teams, assess and monitor medication usage and generate stock orders for patient treatment to the appropriate levels against an agree stock list. Produce the picking ticket item(s) at ward level to include emergency stock items (south only).

Ensure medicine keys are held safely when carrying out medicine related duties.

Resolve routine patient relating queries to stock medicine issues.

To transport goods to and from wards/teams /pharmacy as and when requested.

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