Medicines Management Technician - Community Inpatient Services
NHFT is looking for a Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician to support the delivery of a clinical and technical pharmacy service to Spinneyfields inpatient unit within Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT).
Spinneyfields provides accommodation for people requiring health and social care recovery and rehabilitation, delivered through a multidisciplinary team employed by NHFT in a recovering independence unit. This is a varied role with the successful applicant needing to work independently and within the pharmacy team. The role includes clinical responsibilities, contributing to the healthcare team and supporting the pharmacist attending the wards. Travel between sites will be necessary and you must be able to travel independently to other bases in the Trust across Northamptonshire.
As a Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician, you will work across the community inpatient team to support medicines reconciliation, management of medication supply for in-patients and community patients (including stock, non-stock, discharge and self-administration), participate in audit, support the use of the electronic prescribing system, and support ward areas with management of stock medications. You will also support self-administration where identified as appropriate by the multidisciplinary team (MDT).
* Provide medicines management pharmacy service to allocated in-patient areas
* Collaborate with ward Pharmacists to identify new patients and complete medicines reconciliation using SystmOne, assess patients’ own medication, and communicate with patient/carer or liaise with external organisations as appropriate
* Liaise with ward pharmacists and ward staff on medicines management issues to ensure concordance with prescribed medication and highlight any discrepancies
* Support the MDT with assessing patients for self-administration
* Undertake patient counselling for selected patients and work with ward pharmacists to ensure understanding of discharge medication
For further details or informal visits contact: Natalie Fasham, Deputy Chief Pharmacist (natalie.fasham@nhft.nhs.uk, 07730192717) or Dawn Watts, Head of Service - Adult Community Inpatients (dawn.watts@nhft.nhs.uk).
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* Entry level
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* Full-time
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