Overview
We are delighted to invite applicants to join our Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) directorate and become part of the Emergency Department and Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) pharmacy team. This post is patient-facing and involves working alongside our established clinical pharmacy team to deliver a specialised service to our ED and SDEC. You will have a key role in supporting with medicines reconciliation, counselling patients and working with the team to manage the ward automations systems, helping to ensure the effective running of the Pharmacy support with the Emergency Department and SDEC. You will be fully supported by a team of experienced Pharmacists, Chief Medicines Management Technician, a Medicines Management Technician and Assistants.
If you are an experienced, self-motivated Medicines Management Technician with a passion for urgent and emergency care, this could be the job for you. In this role you will have leadership and clinical responsibilities and will be one of the Senior Medicines Management Technicians (MMT) leading in patient care and ward automations systems management for the Emergency Department and SDEC. You will report directly to the Chief Medicines Management Technician for ED and SDEC and assist in implementing service improvements within the department. You will deliver patient-facing clinical pharmacy care to the ED and SDEC areas and will work closely with the UEC Specialist Clinical Pharmacists to ensure the delivery of a safe, efficient, high quality and cost effective technical service.
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the populations we serve. We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we strive to be better represented at NUH.
Responsibilities
* Patient medication history: compiling medication histories by checking with patients, their own medications, patients' medical notes, smart cards, NerveCentre, System One, GP surgeries, recent discharges and other appropriate sources.
* Communicating effectively, clearly and concisely complex or sensitive information to a wide range of staff, healthcare professionals and patients where there may be barriers to understanding.
* Checking patients’ own medicines for suitability for use on admission and at discharge.
* Final accuracy checks of discharge prescriptions against contents of patients’ own drugs locker.
* Ordering further supplies of medication as per departmental procedures.
* Maintaining up-to-date handovers on NerveCentre via the pharmacy iPads or laptops.
* In liaison with pharmacy stores, maintain and review drug supply issues relevant to the clinical area to ensure an effective and safe system of drug supply, through effective communication with relevant pharmacy and ward staff.
* Participate in the controlled drug retrieval of patients’ own medication from wards, CD destruction at ward level and expired/ unused ward stock; check CD register balances and balance transfers to new CD registers; support quarterly CD audits.
* Investigate and resolve controlled drug discrepancies with nursing staff to ensure accuracy and legal requirements of the controlled drug patient records are maintained.
* Be responsible for the local implementation of standards relating to Medicines storage and security, including ambient and fridge temperature monitoring and security of medicines storage in treatment rooms, drug trolleys, fridges, emergency trolleys and boxes, and controlled drugs cupboards.
* Participate and support in project works under the direction of the Lead Directorate Pharmacist.
* Take part in the 7 day shifted rota and bank holiday duties, including weekend, bank holiday and late duties; weekend rota details are provided in the job advert.
Qualifications and requirements
* Experience as a Medicines Management Technician with a focus on urgent and emergency care.
* Ability to deliver patient-facing clinical pharmacy care and work collaboratively with pharmacists and other staff.
Additional information
The post holder will participate in a system of flexible shifts to facilitate NUH pharmacy opening times.
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