Pharmacy Technician Specialist

NHS Jobs; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Pharmacy Technician to develop and maintain specialist ward-based services at the Cambridge Rehabilitation Unit. You will support pharmacists in clinical care, perform medicines reconciliation for new admissions, and liaise with community pharmacies to ensure a seamless medicines pathway.

You will also train nursing staff, manage medicine orders and stock, label medicines, and document pharmaceutical interventions.

Qualifications

• Duties include delivering day-to-day specialist pharmacy technician services, supporting ward-based pharmaceutical care and medicines policies.
• Ability to communicate with patients, carers and health professionals and document actions accurately.
• Induction and training of nursing staff on ward-related pharmaceutical processes.

Responsibilities

• Be accountable for developing and maintaining day-to-day specialist pharmacy technician services to Cambridge Rehabilitation Unit.
• Support the pharmacist in clinical pharmacy service and refer clinical queries appropriately.
• Undertake medicines history and reconciliation for new admissions.
• Assess patients' medicines for suitability for use.
• Order medicines for individual patients and for ward discharge.
• Order stock medicines and maintain stock rotation.
• Label/re-label medicines as required.
• Induct and advise ward nursing staff on pharmaceutical processes.
• Maintain records of pharmaceutical interventions as needed.
• Liaise with community pharmacies on admission/discharge using PharmOutcomes for seamless care.
• Work autonomously and as part of the Trust team; travel to other locations within the Trust may be required.

Job description

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities. 1. Be accountable for developing and maintaining the day to day specialist pharmacy technician services provided to Cambridge Rehabilitation Unit, and support the pharmacy service on Welney Ward in Ely when needed in line with medicines policies and standard operating procedures.2. Support the pharmacist in the provision of the clinical pharmacy service, and recognise when clinical queries need to be referred to a different healthcare professional (e.g. pharmacist, doctor).3. Undertake medicine history and medicines reconciliation for newly admitted patients, and when necessary, resolve problems by communicating with patients, carers, GPs and other health care professionals and document actions and outcomes accurately.4. Assess patients own medicines for suitability for use.5. Order medicines from the Trust pharmacy for individual patients for use on the ward and in preparation for discharge.6. Order stock medicines, maintain stock rotation, including checking expiry dates7. Label / re-label medicines when required.8. Induct, train, advise and support nurses and nursing associates on the ward9. Maintain records of pharmaceutical interventions if required.10. Liaise with community pharmacies on admission and discharge of patients where appropriate using PharmOutcomes Discharge Medicines Service to provide a seamless medicines pathway into primary care. The responsibilities of this post require the post-holder to work autonomously as well as a team member. This role may require travel to other locations within the Trust.

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