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Senior Community Medicines Management Technician
The closing date is 14 July 2025
Are you a skilled Pharmacy Technician looking for an opportunity to make a direct impact on patient care in the community?
We are seeking a Senior Community Medicines Management Technician to join our Home 1st Team in Milton Keynes. This exciting role will involve working across multidisciplinary teams to optimize medicines management and enhance patient safety.
Who We're Looking For:
? A qualified Pharmacy Technician, ideally with community or hospital experience.? A professional with strong communication and leadership skills, eager to work within a multidisciplinary team.? Someone with a keen eye for governance and safety, ensuring medicines optimisation best practices.? A proactive, solution-oriented team player, passionate about improving healthcare delivery.
Join Us!
This is an incredible opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping medicines management across Milton Keynes. If you're ready to make a difference in patient care and contribute to service improvements, we'd love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
As a key member of the community health service, you will:? Provide expert guidance on medicines management for patients with complex medication needs.? Conduct domiciliary medication reviews to support adherence and patient independence.? Deliver training and education for nursing and medical staff to enhance medicines safety.? Support medicines reconciliation and antimicrobial stewardship in community settings.? Lead on policy development and governance to improve medicines optimisation strategies.? Collaborate with primary and secondary care professionals to enhance medicines pathways.? Play a crucial role in patient discharge planning, ensuring continuity of care.? Develop quality improvement projects to streamline medication-related processes.
About us
? A rewarding career where your expertise directly improves patient safety and outcomes.? A supportive and collaborative work environment across integrated health services.? Opportunities for professional development, training, and career progression.? The chance to contribute to pharmacy audits and innovative service development projects.
Job responsibilities
Home First Community Teams
Work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team, to provide advice to patients who are housebound/acutely unwell, carers and health care professionals with the aim of improving medicines optimisation.
* Contribute to the development of action plans and strategies to optimise medicines, and work to implement them.
* Support patients to manage medicines independently and adhere to treatment,
* Reduction of medication risks, and unnecessary repeat prescribing.
* To support and advise Home 1st staff (including Planned, Unplanned and Social Care) around complex medication issues and compliance concerns.
* Undertake technical medication adherence reviews (including domiciliary reviews) to optimise medication use.
* Identify potential issues/ areas, which require work to achieve maximum cost or clinical effectiveness in prescribing and support teams to address these
* Advise patients on safe use and storage of medicines in the home.
* Undertake Medicines reconciliations on transfer of care to the team
* Provide clinical advice to patients / clients and carers in accordance with evidence based guidance.
* Refer patients, after triage to the GP practice for full clinical medication review when appropriate.
* Implement agreed changes to patients medication, ensuring that all stakeholders understand the changes.
* Prepare reports from the technical review and feedback to the relevant members of the healthcare team following interventions.
* Identify medication errors/ queries and report to the appropriate member of the healthcare team.
* Produce patient information materials/ aides such as leaflets/ posters to educate patients on various aspects of medication usage.
* Provide training and education to patients to ensure the promotion of the safe and effective use of medicines.
* Support antimicrobial stewardship in the community.
* Carry out audits, manage the implementation of agreed changes and monitor the effects to ensure benefits are maintained.
* Support systems and processes to ensure key information about medicines is communicated and implemented across the team e.g. medication alerts.
* Undertake Quality Improvement project to improve medicines optimisation within the teams
* Liaise with other CNWL Medicines Management Teams and pharmacists elsewhere to share ideas for good practice.
* Provide medicines training and support for community nursing teams
* Provide Key Performance Indicator data as required and communicate to Milton Keynes Community Health Services Pharmacy Team and service managers. Communicate key actions and findings from reviews and report back to CNWL medicines management team and the Home First Planned and Unplanned Care Services on a regular basis.
Person Specification
Experience
* Experience of ward based medicine medicines management
* Experience of initiating and implementing service development and change to practice - project management skills
* Experience of medication counselling and has had regular contact with patients
* Experience of working with a wide range of other health care professionals
* Experience in conducting and reporting project and audit work
* Portfolio demonstrating competency of previous and current pharmacy practice skills, knowledge, and CPD.
* Previous experience of working in a secure environment
* Experience of delivering training
* Good understanding of clinical governance
Others
* Has a driver's license, access to a car and a willingness to travel to different locations to undertake role effectively
Qualifications
* BTEC/NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences
* Registered as a practicing technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Membership of APTUK Recommended for all technicians especially band 5 & above
* Consultation Skills
* Minor Ailments Training
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
£37,338 to £44,962 a yearper annum (Pro rata if part time)
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