Rotational Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician inBasingstoke inBasingstoke PUBLISHED
TUE 12 NOV 2024
Candidates should possess a strong motivation and reliability, as well as an understanding of legal, ethical, and professional standards in pharmacy practice. The position offers an opportunity for flexible working and emphasises inclusivity in its recruitment process. Responsibilities also include documenting interventions, dispensing medications for inpatients and outpatients, and conducting medication locker checks for long-term inpatients, all while ensuring excellent patient care.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 4/5 Pharmacy Technician to join our experienced Medicines Management team at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, reliable Pharmacy Technician to be involved in delivering enhanced medicines management service on a rotational basis across Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital and Parklands Hospital. Promoting the safe and effective utilisation of medicines in all care situations, working with care staff and patients directly to ensure patients receive the highest standards of care in the management of their medication. Duties will include medicines reconciliation, assessment of patients own drugs (POD's), checking of medication for discharge and the counselling of patients.
You will be managed by the Lead Medicines Management Technicians and Education and Training team to ensure you are following the legal, ethical, professional and employers code of conduct.
To identify patients newly admitted to in-patient units to obtain an accurate medication history and ensure timely medicines reconciliation to facilitate a smooth admission service.
Appropriately referring interventions back to the clinical pharmacists or liaising with other members of the MDT within scope and experience.
Documenting interventions and discrepancies on the electronic patient records.
To facilitate the supply in a timely fashion of any non-stock medication for individual patients with insufficient medication for their current treatment.
To assess the suitability of any Patients Own Drugs for use.
Dispensing inpatient, outpatient or discharge medication as required.
To facilitate safe discharge by organising timely supply of new or additional items required for discharge where insufficient is held on the ward.
To counsel patients, their carer's, and healthcare professional on doses, frequency, side effects, benefits of taking medicines/completing courses of medication, interactions with other medicines, using tact and overcoming barriers to understanding.
To dispense prescriptions from outpatients, wards and other clinical areas, ensuring that standard operating procedures are followed.
Handing out the final dispensed product including counselling for patients, carers or healthcare professionals as required.
Performing locker checks for patients who has been an in-patient for longer than 7 days.
About us
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone -- if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team -- detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
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