Rotational Clinical Pharmacy Tech - Band 4 to 5 progression

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust; Ashford; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a rotational band 4 to 5 progression Clinical Pharmacy Technician to join the William Harvey Hospital, Ashford. The post offers a fast-paced, varied environment with ongoing clinical knowledge development and patient-focused medicines management.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team, providing medication histories, reconciliation, and discharge planning support.

Qualifications

• Detailed medication histories and reconciliation with inpatient meds.
• Counselling patients on new or changed medications to promote compliance.
• Support Doctors and nurses with medication queries.
• Participate in discharge planning and medicines management.

Responsibilities

• Complete medication histories from multiple sources and reconcile with current inpatient medications.
• Counsel patients on new or modified medicines to improve adherence.
• Assist clinical staff with medication queries and information needs.
• Assess patients' suitability for in-hospital use of medications and contribute to audits.
• Contribute to ward-based teaching and multidisciplinary team improvement.

Skills

Clinical knowledge

Patient counselling

Team collaboration

Auditing

Job description

Completing detailed medication histories using a multitude of sources in order to reconcile with current inpatient medications and make interventions where appropriate.

To counsel patients on new or changed medications to help promote compliance.

To aid Doctors and nurses with medication queries.

To evaluate the suitability of patients, own medications for use whilst in the hospital setting.

To participate in the discharge planning of patients with ward staff and other healthcare professionals both in secondary and primary care.

Accuracy checking of dispensed items in our main hospital dispensary or satellite pharmacy within the acute medicines unit.

To carry out audits on the department to ensure procedures are being followed.

Would you like a challenge, Would you like to have a role where you feel you can make a difference every day? We have a permanent vacancy for a rotational band 4 to 5 progression Clinical Pharmacy Technician to work at The William Harvey, Hospital Ashford.

This is a fast paced but varied exciting environment, and your clinical knowledge is constantly developed to provide a patient focused medicines management service. You will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, where the goal is to ensure we provide an excellent service to our patients, with their safety and well-being at the forefront of everything we do. The role will involve regular teaching to other clinicians and healthcare professionals working within the trust.

The band 4 to 5 progression post is suitable for pharmacy technicians looking to work in a hospital pharmacy, who are newly qualified or community looking to start their hospital career.

To progress to the band 5, the successful applicant would need to successfully complete the in-house progression policy., We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with fivehospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.