Job overview

We are offering an exciting opportunity for someone to gain experience and qualifications in pharmacy in a cross-sector student technician role working with Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, the acute hospital trust Lincolnshire United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospital and Lincolnshire Co-op Pharmacies.

This role will equip you with an understanding of the different aspects of Pharmacy and enable you to gain the necessary qualification and experience to register with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a professionally registered Pharmacy Technician.

This two-year post will provide the perfect opportunity for the right candidate to develop their knowledge, clinical and service development skills in cross-boundary working with multiple agencies that are involved in patientcare, whilst utilising a distance learning course provider to study for your accreditation and registration with the professional body.

You will be part of an expanding Pharmacy Team that is highly regarded within the organisation and is looking forward to exciting times ahead.

This role will be suitable for anyone starting out on their career pathway, wanting a change in career, or looking for an opportunity to contribute to people's healthcare needs.

For an informal chat please contact Tracey Holliwell-Brown, Pharmacy Education & Training Lead at LPFT on [email protected]

Main duties of the job

The main responsibilities of this role include

•Contribute to the monitoring of ordering, delivery, and storage of medication across all sites within the Trust to ensure compliance with Trust policies and procedures in line with NICE guidance, National Service Framework, and best practice

•Carry out reviews of prescription charts, identifying anomalies and omissions bringing them to the attention of the appropriate staff.

•Ensure that a detailed patient medication history and medicines reconciliation is taken at the time of admission.

•Provide practical support, appropriate advice and counselling to service users with medication issues. 

•To assess the suitability for continued use of medicines brought in by the service user using predetermined guidelines on assessment criteria

•Arrange supplies of medicines for use on the ward, leave & discharge

•Work within department policies, protocols, guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures, be accountable for problem solving at ward/community team level, the provision of routine and specialist advice and day to day decisions on medicines management issues, reporting back or referring on where appropriate.

•Review prescriptions and highlight areas of prescribing to the prescriber where greater clarity of intention is required and suggest changes. Ensuring all drug errors / critical incidents encountered, are reported and dealt with in a tactful manner.

Working for our organisation

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family,  Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.