Senior Pharmacy Technician - Mental Health Pharmacy Lead

NHS; Mansfield; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Mansfield is seeking a Band 5 Pharmacy Technician to join our ward-based team. You will work closely with clinical pharmacists to provide a medicines management service across wards, supporting medicines optimisation and patient safety.

The role covers medicines reconciliation, assessing patients' own medicines, ordering named patient meds, counselling on use, coordinating discharge supplies and contributing to audits and quality improvement

Qualifications

• NVQ/BTEC in pharmaceutical sciences or equivalent.
• GPhC registration as Pharmacy Technician.

Responsibilities

• Medicines reconciliation.
• Assessing suitability of patients' own medicines.
• Ordering named patient medication.
• Counselling patients about their medicines.
• Co-ordinating supply of discharge medicines.
• Supporting audits and quality improvement initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Prescription judgment

Organising

Priorities & planning

Teamwork

Communication

Education

NVQ Level 3/BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences

GPhC registration (Pharmacy Technician)

Tools

CMM

Job description

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Mansfield is seeking a Band 5 Pharmacy Technician to join our ward-based team. You will work closely with clinical pharmacists to provide a medicines management service across wards, supporting medicines optimisation and patient safety.

The role covers medicines reconciliation, assessing patients' own medicines, ordering named patient meds, counselling on use, coordinating discharge supplies and contributing to audits and quality improvement