Overview
We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice. At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a 'home' office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.
We provide clinical pharmacy services to the Initial Response Service across Cornwall. Your base location is negotiable, though travel to other sites will be required. Working patterns, including a rolling weekend rota, are flexible and open to discussion for the right candidate. This role will require working independently and collaboratively within the wider pharmacy team.
This post will support hospitals within Cornwall. Base location can be negotiated but there will be a requirement to travel to other peripheral hospitals.
We are a NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, delivering community and hospital-based care to improve physical and mental health, with specialist support for dementia or learning disability. We are a people organisation and people matter to us.
Responsibilities
* As a Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician within the crisis service, support medicines reconciliation, prescription reviews, discharge facilitation, ward-based dispensing, medication recycling, patient counselling, and audits.
* Provide a comprehensive medicines management service to patients with the Initial Response Service and support the Mental Health hospital inpatients, including medicines reconciliation, prescription review and endorsement, recycling of medication, supporting self-medication and, where necessary, patient and carer counselling.
* Participate in multi-disciplinary activities such as ward handover meetings and facilitation and preparation of discharge medication with handover information to other healthcare professionals if required.
* Work with the pharmacy team to deliver clinical pharmacy and safe systems of working with medicines across mental health sites, with scope to work with patients directly in the community.
* Supervise and support education and training activities for student technicians, student pharmacists and pre-registration pharmacists.
* Support hospitals within Cornwall; base location negotiable with travel requirements to peripheral hospitals.
Requirements and Qualifications
* Base location negotiable; willingness to travel to other sites as required.
* Experience as a Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician within NHS settings preferred.
* Ability to work independently and within a wider pharmacy team.
* Commitment to delivering safe medicines management and patient-centred care.
About Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
We are an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health and provide specialist support to people with dementia or learning disability. We are a people organisation and people matter to us. Over 4,000 staff including doctors, nurses, therapists, admin and support staff work across home visits, community clinics, bases and 13 community hospitals.
Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner. Approximately 568,000 people live in the area; a third of residents are supported by acute hospital services in Devon, so we work closely with partners in Devon.
In the summer and during other holidays, demand increases as people visit the area. This increases the number of people who use our services.
Benefits and Development
To support development, the following opportunities are available:
* Career conversations and individual development plans for succession planning and talent management
* Protected CPD time for registered staff
* Access to a dedicated central development fund supporting CPD for all staff
* Leadership and Management development programmes
* Coaching and mentoring opportunities
* Clinical induction programme for operational skills
* Care certificate programme for band 1-4 clinical staff
* Preceptorship programme for newly qualified staff
* Individual professional development programmes
Rewards and Additional Information
Being part of a successful NHS Foundation Trust brings a portfolio of rewards and benefits, including:
* Health and wellbeing initiatives
* Free DBS checks where required
* Discounts from retailers, UK hotels and main attractions
* NHS Pension Scheme
* Salary sacrifice car scheme
* Cycle to work scheme
* Reimbursement of application costs for staff eligible to apply for EU settlement status
The Trust reserves the right to close this advert once a sufficient number of applications have been submitted. If you are successful at shortlisting, you will be contacted via TRAC.jobs email regarding interview details. We welcome and value individuals with lived experience of mental or physical ill health joining our workforce and encourage Occupational Health checks for inoculations and screening tests. Appointments are subject to full three-year satisfactory references; please include correct contact details for referees. For general recruitment queries, contact 01208 834644.
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