Specialist Pharmacy Technician Manager – Mental Health Services
On a daily basis, to manage a team of dedicated pharmacy staff in the supply of dispensed medication for inpatients and outpatients, including discharge, weekend leave, self-medication, community prescriptions and the supply of compliance aids and patient information leaflets.2. To act as a leader within the ward setting.3. To manage the ordering and supply of controlled stationery e.g., FP10, NMP and FP10MDA-SS to ensure a safe and secure service.4. To act as a final accuracy checker for individually dispensed prescriptions.5. To ensure optimum use of the technicians who are allocated to inpatient and community mental health services duties via direct supervision, in order to provide atimely, effective and safe ward-based service.6. To assess the training needs of the pharmacy technical staff allocated to community mental health and inpatient areas and as part of professional development planning provide competency based training, furthermore to work with the pharmacy training team to ensure that induction and on-going training provided to administrative and support staff, technicians and pharmacists (including foundation pharmacists and undergraduate students) is of the highest quality with regard to community mental healthand inpatient services.7. To develop an innovative approach to managing the ward-based supply of dispensedmedicines.
This will include optimising the supply of short-term leave medication and the re-use of medication, where appropriate.8. To develop a technician-led clinical ward-based service. This may include counselling of service users and carers.9. To develop, review and maintain ward-based policies and procedures.Please refer to the job description for more details.