Senior Pharmacy Technician (Proactive Care) | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust - Worthing

They do this by reviewing medications with individual patients/ carers and providing guidance on medicines use and management.

• To provide medicines management support to patients in their own homes within identified PCN areas.
• To deliver medicines optimisation promoting and delivering high quality, safe and cost effective, evidence-based pharmaceutical advice to prescribers and others.
• Undertake medication review/pre-Structured Medication Review (SMR) of patients with recommendations and GP records updated, as per scope of practice agreement.
• Ensure that improved outcomes can be demonstrated through key performance indicators (KPI).
• Working in partnership with and proactively developing and maintaining good working relationships with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).
• Supporting the development and delivery of practice quality improvement
• Continuing professional development by attending relevant local and national courses such as PresQIPP, CPPE
• Developing pharmacy workforce through practice supervision.
• To work autonomously but alongside pharmacists to support the SMR work by doing medicines reviews/ Pre-SMR for proactive care patients, including those with complex medication needs.
• To work within the proactive care team to maximise the use of the skill mix of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, ensuring each role is working to the maximum of their scope to produce efficiencies in delivering the service.
• To participate in regular clinical supervision and peer review of work to ensure consistent standards and to help develop individual pharmacy staff.
• To report KPI to reflect your work.
• Participate in SCFT Medicines Management team meetings where appropriate.

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.

We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.

• Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
• Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
• Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
• Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
• Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
• Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
• Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff

Our proactive care pharmacy service are core members of the Community Nursing Multi-Disciplinary Teams, working at PCN level with community nurses and proactive care coordinators, SPFT mental health nurses, GP Practice teams, Community Pharmacies, Social Services, Care agencies and others involved with patients and their medicines.

The post holder will be locality based in Coastal West Sussex , but may be required to travel to other areas covered by SCFT. A choice of main base will be available from Worthing, Littlehampton or Pulborough.

The postholder will be an Educational Supervisor (ES) or working towards these qualifications.

This advert closes on Sunday 29 Sep 2024