Senior Pharmacy Technician - Medicines Management Band 5

Job overview

OVERALL SUMMARY:

The Trust’s mission is ‘to put the patient first and deliver great care to every patient, every day’. Our priorities are to create a “one team, one trust” culture and focus on the delivery of the following five objectives to ensure we provide high quality, compassionate care to all of our patients:

• Delivering safe and effective care across our sites
• Creating a positive experience that meets the expectations of our patients, their families and carers
• Providing responsive care that delivers the right treatment, in the right place at the right time
• Being financially sustainable
• Working in partnership with our patients, commissioners, other health and care providers, local authorities, the voluntary sector, the NHS TDA, NHS England and Monitor in the interests of our patients and a sustainable local health and social care economy.

Main duties of the job

1. To assist in the provision of ward-based pharmacy services to the assigned clinical specialty and associated wards.
2. To be an active member of the pharmacy team participating in the general duties of the pharmacy including providing ward and dispensary cover (dispensing and checking)
3. To assist with the training of junior pharmacy staff.
4. To optimise drug management by taking drug histories, assessing patients’ own drugs at admission for use during their hospital stay and promoting one stop dispensing, as well as reducing unnecessary dispensing of medication during their stay and on discharge.
5. To resolve and/or appropriately refer interventions back to the clinical pharmacist or liaise with other members of the MDT within scope and experience.
6. To record details of medication history, patient’s own supply and any other relevant information on the electronic in-patient prescription chart in accordance with pharmacy procedures.
7. To document interventions and discrepancies related to prescribing of medicines on the electronic patient records.
8. To encourage and support compliance with the local formulary and prescribing policies and guidelines.
9. To effectively communicate with patients regarding medicines supply and to identify administration or adherence problems.
10. To help ensure smooth transfer of medicines between wards, minimizing opportunities for missed doses
11. To ensure the maintenance of a high standard of stock control and stock rotation for medicines in areas under his/her control, working closely with the top-up assistant and to regularly review stock lists twice a year in liaison with the ward pharmacist and ward sister/manager.
12. To communicate appropriately with pharmacists, pharmacy stores staff and/or ward staff regarding issues with medication.
13. To be able to identify, prioritise and fulfill urgent medicine supply requests in order to reduce the time for patients to receive their medication and minimise the risk of missed doses/delays to discharge.
14. To identify anticipated discharges and to assist in providing a timely supply of appropriate discharge medication, including for those patients requiring monitored dosage systems.
15. To assist in providing a patient counseling service for medicines at discharge.

Person specification

communication

• Strengthen the bridge between primary, secondary and acute services.  Promoting good practice and effective communication within and between primary care, statutory and voluntary organisations on all matters relating to the patient.  Communicate complex information to staff, stakeholders, patients and carers where there may be barriers of understanding such as a lack of knowledge about service delivery or care pathways.  Diffuse potentially hostile, antagonistic and emotive situations with staff, patients and relatives.

• 6 months

Skills

• To liaise closely with the Leads and senior clinicians in monitoring the level and quality of service provided, working within service standards and response times.  To line manage junior colleagues and unqualified staff, ensuring competencies and appraisals are completed within Trust policy.  To participate in team objectives, to lead on service development projects alongside Team Leads.  To participate at meetings where appropriate for professional and educational purposes. To chair or minute take when required.

• experience

Our mission: ‘to put the patient first by delivering great care to every patient, every day.’

There’s never been a better time to join the Epsom and St Helier team. Our hospitals are facing a bright and busy future, and our staff have a proven track record in providing high quality, compassionate care for our patients.

Boasting incredible staff benefits and dedicated training schemes, working for us will not only take your career forward, but could help to transform the lives of our patients and visitors.

We offer all employees some fantastic staff benefits, and are the only hospitals in Surrey to offer staff the London high cost area supplement. Our hospitals also benefit from great locations, so whether you're attracted to the bright lights of the city or the countryside of Epsom Downs, both are within easy reach.

FURTHER INFORMATION

**PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS POSITION MAY CLOSE EARLIER THAN THE STATED CLOSING DATE IF A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS ARE RECEIVED. IF YOU WISH TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION, YOU ARE ADVISED TO SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE**

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For new entrants into the NHS, your pay under the Agenda for Change or Medical & Dental Pay Bands, will normally be set at the minimum of the pay band as advertised.

If you apply for this position and do not hear from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been short-listed for interview on this occasion.

ESTH values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Employer we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

Internal applicants from underrepresented minority groups are encouraged to seek development support such as work shadowing and interview skills coaching. Please contact the recruitment team for more information.