The trust is dedicated to the professional development of its technicians, offering training and support within a digitally advanced environment that includes electronic prescribing systems. Candidates will have the opportunity to build on their clinical experience and take on leadership roles while contributing to the optimisation of patient care in the hospital setting.
Do you want to put your clinical knowledge to better use? Are you a registered Pharmacy technician seeking a greater sense of purpose and looking to make positive interactions with both patients and other healthcare professionals? If so like many others, you must be looking for a rewarding clinically focused career in hospital pharmacy! At Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust we are committed to this vision and are passionate about supporting technicians who are willing to join us on this exciting journey.
Your focus will be to deliver a patient-centred ward pharmacy service by assisting the pharmacist with drug history taking to ensure medicines reconciliation is completed within 24 hours of admission.
This opportunity presents the successful candidates with a chance to build on any clinical experience they may already have. We are fully committed to your training and development to enable you to maximise your potential contribution to patient care and would actively support individuals.
As a GDE exemplar site we are a digitally advanced Trust with electronic prescribing in place since 2, an Automated Dispensing System on each site, in excess of 200 electronic discharge referrals to community pharmacies per month and a wide range of other innovative digital solutions. We have an excellent support network for technicians of all grades and are unwavering in our commitment to your personal development. What are you waiting for apply today!
- To provide medicines management services to adult wards including compiling accurate medication histories and undertaking medicines reconciliation.
- To undertake day-to-day supervision of junior pharmacy technicians and pharmacy assistants within the team.
- To provide training in pharmacy procedures, pharmacy stock control and electronic prescribing systems, including the signing off training logs to all members of staff.
- To provide straightforward advice on pharmaceutical products and supply.
- To work closely with other healthcare professionals at ward level.
- To act as a professional role model for junior pharmacy technicians and pharmacy assistants, actively demonstrating integrity, ownership and leadership in all aspects of the role
- To contribute to the pharmacy service including dispensing and issuing prescriptions via the satellite and main dispensary. This will also involve accredited checking of prescriptions.
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Provision of a medicines management service at ward level including responsibilities for the safe storage of medicines and medicine returns.
To obtain patient medication histories, using all available sources, including patients own medicines and the Summary Care Record according to departmental processes and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) whilst obtaining patient consent. This includes a responsibility for entering patients admission medicine history onto the electronic prescribing system (ePMA).
To undertake straightforward Level 2 medicines reconciliation in line with appropriate policies and SOPs.
Communication of all medicine related information, both verbal and written, to patients /carers and other healthcare professionals. Includes counselling / demonstration of inhaler and other medical device techniques.
Ensure the efficient transfer of medicines between care settings, to include wards /departments and requesting patients own medicines from home.
To assist the pharmacist in delivering the Keogh standards across medical wards ensuring medicines optimisation for all patients has been undertaken within 24 hours of admission.
To undertake initial pharmaceutical assessment of new patients and prioritisation of patients for pharmacist review, according to protocol.
To support the supervision of a small team of junior pharmacy technicians, senior pharmacy assistants and preregistration staff within the division, organising and directing their work in a fluid manner to ensure an efficient and responsive service to patients and wards.
To deputise for the Lead Medicines Management Technician within the division where appropriate.
Supporting team rotas for technical ward based staff.
Prioritising workload in pharmacy dispensaries.
Organising supplies and discharge medication at ward level, including monitored dose system supply if appropriate.
Liaising with relevant pharmacy and other health care staff concerningpharmaceutical services to the Division
Organising and actively supporting regular audits such as quarterly CD and Safe Storage of Medicines Audits
Ensuring regular stock storage audits are completed.
To help provide hands on induction and on-going training of members of the ward based pharmacy team. This will include apprentice assessments at level 2, 3 and 4 & competency assessments for pharmacist pre-registration trainees and acting as a clinical supervisor.
To support the Lead Pharmacist in maintaining continuous improvement and efficiency by managing discrete projects and/or areas of responsibility within the medication supply chain and being responsible for achieving defined outcomes
Participate in the co-ordination of clinical trials supplies for the directorate.
Co-ordinate and monitor safe systems for usage and storage of medicine supplies on the ward including CD checks, Bedside Medicine Cabinet checks, regular reviews of stock lists and stock level monitoring.
Participate in the Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician rota.
Responsible for creating / updating relevant SOPs.
Please see full Job Description and Person Specification attached. If further information is required, please speak to our contact on the advert.
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