Pharmacy Technician Specialist in Huntingdon inHuntingdon PUBLISHED THU 27 FEB 2025 Jump to job information section

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and highly motivated Specialist Pharmacy Technician to join the domiciliary medicines team within the CPFT pharmacy department.

This role is based in Huntingdon and covers the Huntingdonshire part of the county. You will be working in a team with friendly, dedicated and experienced specialist pharmacy technicians who cover the rest of Cambridgeshire. There will be flexibility for hybrid working and the role may occasionally require you to travel to other bases in the Trust.

This role involves lone working and travelling to visit patients in their own homes, so the successful candidate needs to be able to work independently, as well as being self motivated and confident in talking to patients.

The ideal candidate will have a flexible approach to the needs of the service and have a strong team work ethic. You must be well organised, able to prioritise your own work and have good communication skills. You need a strong sense of accountability, accompanied by the ability to work under pressure at times.

If you are looking for a new challenge, enjoy variety in your work and wish to be part of a team striving to make a difference to our patients then we want to hear from you.

We will support and provide the necessary training required for the role.

The purpose of this post is to provide a patient-centred service to support medicines optimisation.

The aim is to improve patient outcomes by optimising the use of medicines by patients in the community. This will improve patient care, reduce medication related problems and avoidable hospital admissions and can also reduce drug costs and waste.

It will require a collaborative approach together with the patient and their family and social network, as well as colleagues in health and social care.

Reaching concordance will involve visiting patients in their own homes, and it will also involve multidisciplinary working.

The post-holder will contribute to the strategic development of support for medicines management in the domiciliary setting in the context of the relationships between the service, the Trust, and other stakeholders.

The responsibilities of this post require significant autonomy and lone working as well as travel across the county. There is also a requirement to be able to handle sensitive and potentially difficult patient issues.

About us

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• Provide specialist advice and practical support to patients regarding their medicines, to family members and carers as appropriate, and to other health and social services staff as necessary.
• Explore reasons for non-compliance, both intentional and unintentional, and develop strategies and methods to reach concordance, tailored to the individual.
• Provide specialist advice and practical support to patients regarding their medicines, to family members and carers as appropriate, and to other health and social services staff as necessary.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate skilled medicines management interventions for patients across the community/primary care interface, in co-operation with other members of the integrated health and social care teams.
• Complete documentation to record clinical data, recommendations and outcomes.
• Report pharmaceutical errors/ incidents and issues as appropriate using the Trust incident reporting scheme.
• Contribute to the investigation of incidents, including attending safeguarding reviews etc.
• Contribute to overall patient health and social care through identification of non-medication related issues. Refer to the appropriate agencies as required.
• Educate and support the members of the multi-disciplinary teams with regard to medicines management issues.
• Devise and conduct training for others, including healthcare professionals, care staff, managers, members of the workforce development team as necessary, in aspects of domiciliary medicines management relevant to them.
• Contribute to the development and direction of the service.
• Promote the service to health and social care staff, patients and carers as appropriate. This may involve some work outside normal working hours to attend community-based initiatives such as health fairs etc.
• Evaluate the service through audit, surveys and other appropriate means.
• Be aware of the risks of lone working and take steps to manage these appropriate to the individual situation.
• Be able to respond to situations encountered in the home, including knowing who to call for help if necessary.
• Work with local, regional and national bodies and contribute to the development of medicines management training courses ensuring that they include both primary and secondary care aspects of medicines management.