Pharmacy Technician - Frailty Team inSheffield inSheffield PUBLISHED 23 OCT 2024
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We are seeking a skilled
Pharmacy Technician
to join the expanding frailty team at
Townships 1 Primary Care Network
in Sheffield. In this role, you will work with GPs, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to support medication reconciliation and review for frail and elderly patients, ensuring safe and effective medication use.
If you are passionate about improving medication safety and making a real difference in patient care, apply today!
The Pharmacy Technician in the frailty team will play a pivotal role in ensuring safe and effective medication use for frail and elderly patients. Working closely with GPs, nurses, and the wider multidisciplinary team, the Pharmacy Technician will focus on medication reconciliation following hospital discharge and support with long-term medication reviews for frail patients.
About us- Conduct medication reconciliation for patients recently discharged from the hospital to ensure accurate medication management.
- Work alongside GPs to perform medication reviews for frail patients, focusing on reducing polypharmacy and improving safety.
- Provide advice and support to the frailty team on best practices for medication management, including safe prescribing.
- Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to deliver proactive care reviews for long-term conditions and frailty management.
- Support care home medication management where required.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory and governance standards in all areas of medication management.
- Responding to patients questions both face to face and over the phone; referring problems or queries to the pharmacist/GP
- Providing advice and information to patients. Informing patients regarding changes to their medicines in a professional manner and have the capacity to support and reassure patients when necessary, dealing with any issues or concerns that may arise within the boundaries of the post.
- Support improvements in clinical care through regular practice-based audit and implementing change.
- Promote cost-effective, safe, evidence-based prescribing in accordance with national and local guidance.
- To record all relevant information in the patients medical notes and interventions. Carry out housekeeping whilst in patient records e.g. dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation.
We are seeking a skilled
Pharmacy Technician
to join the expanding frailty team at
Townships 1 Primary Care Network
in Sheffield. In this role, you will work with GPs, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to support medication reconciliation and review for frail and elderly patients, ensuring safe and effective medication use.
If you are passionate about improving medication safety and making a real difference in patient care, apply today!
The Pharmacy Technician in the frailty team will play a pivotal role in ensuring safe and effective medication use for frail and elderly patients. Working closely with GPs, nurses, and the wider multidisciplinary team, the Pharmacy Technician will focus on medication reconciliation following hospital discharge and support with long-term medication reviews for frail patients.
About us
- Conduct medication reconciliation for patients recently discharged from the hospital to ensure accurate medication management.
- Work alongside GPs to perform medication reviews for frail patients, focusing on reducing polypharmacy and improving safety.
- Provide advice and support to the frailty team on best practices for medication management, including safe prescribing.
- Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to deliver proactive care reviews for long-term conditions and frailty management.
- Support care home medication management where required.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory and governance standards in all areas of medication management.
- Responding to patients questions both face to face and over the phone; referring problems or queries to the pharmacist/GP
- Providing advice and information to patients. Informing patients regarding changes to their medicines in a professional manner and have the capacity to support and reassure patients when necessary, dealing with any issues or concerns that may arise within the boundaries of the post.
- Support improvements in clinical care through regular practice-based audit and implementing change.
- Promote cost-effective, safe, evidence-based prescribing in accordance with national and local guidance.
- To record all relevant information in the patients medical notes and interventions. Carry out housekeeping whilst in patient records e.g. dose optimisation and medicines synchronisation.
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