Overview
Senior Technician (Medicines Management & Optimisation Lead) role at Sheffield Health Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust.
Responsibilities
* Medicines Management: Manage the medicines management technicians (MMT) across the wards and clinical areas. Lead alongside clinical pharmacists and nursing staff to support the medicines management service to wards and clinical areas. Ensure service users receive the highest standards of care in management of their medications. Carry out medicines reconciliation, assessment of patients owned drugs (PODs), and checking medications on wards for non-stock and stock medication.
* Training and assessment: Train and assess staff to complete the MMT courses. Lead and support improvements on the admission and discharge processes with regards to medications. Develop, oversee and participate in the counselling of service users, including the training of staff.
* Medicines Optimisation: Advise medical, nursing and other staff on pharmaceutical or therapeutic problems and promote the rational prescribing and use of medicines.
* Information systems and service development: Participate in and support the development of departmental clinical medicines information systems and answer queries resulting from medicines use within the Trust. Drive transformation of the services and develop links to ensure collaborative working on service development. Improve the quality of reports. Share learning and support embedding of evidence-based and best practice within teams.
* Audits and procedures: Conduct audits related to medications. Develop and update standard operating procedures related to medicine use in the Trust. Provide regular feedback and updates to other members of the pharmacy department on the structure and delivery of the medicines management/optimisation service. Report Key Performance Indicators and support the pharmacy vision.
* Management and recruitment: Perform Individual Performance Reviews for Pharmacy Technicians and Assistants who you line manage. Participate in the recruitment and selection of new technical and assistant technical staff where required. Contribute to departmental forward planning and the Trust and Pharmacy Strategy. Represent the Trust at appropriate regional forums.
* Operational coverage: Provide cover support for other Specialist Technicians when required. Write and delegate where appropriate Standard Operating Procedures specific to the role and comment on other specialised procedures.
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