Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician - Surgery & Critical Care
To be responsible for medicines management in their area of speciality, working with relevant pharmacy, medical and nursing staff to deliver high quality pharmacy services to the clinical area To provide an advanced clinical pharmacy technician service to their speciality Be a leading clinical pharmacy technician expert in a defined area of speciality agreed with the lead medicines management technician and lead clinical pharmacist for the area, collaboratively developing protocols and delivering the service (e.g. antimicrobial prescription review or Medical Infusion Suite (MIS) prescriptions.
Line manage and contribute to the education and training of pharmacy staff, being an educational and practice supervisor where required. Proactively provide patient-facing services, including the counselling of patients. To work with the multidisciplinary team to educate, train and develop materials to support medicines governance, optimisation, formulary, safety and pathways.Review and present medicines use and expenditure data to drive change. To identify and implement efficiencies in operational processes and medicines use to reduce medicines expenditure and system wastage. Contribute to the department and Trusts audit and research agenda.