Job overview

• The post holder will support the Ward manager and Chief Pharmacy Technician - Medicine Management and Education, Training & Development in developing and maintaining the medicines management service at ward level.
• The post holder will work closely with the pharmacists and support them in taking the medicines reconciliation of newly admitted patients, assessment of patients own drugs, providing original pack dispensing, provision of TTO packs, managing satellite pharmacies, counselling patients about their medicines and co-ordinating the supply of discharge medicines.
• The post holder will support nursing staff to ensure delivery of actions to ensure patients are not routinely discharged without time critical medicines
• The successful candidate must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council and will have successfully completed a BTEC and a Level 3 NVQ in Pharmaceutical Services or the equivalent.
• The successful candidate will work closely with nursing and pharmacy colleagues to ensure the provision of integrated and efficient care to hospital in-patients and day units.
• The post-holder will be based on a specific ward(s) within the Trust, spending their time working clinically at ward level; and, with nursing colleagues, ensuring that medicine-related governance processes at ward level are actioned appropriately.
• Suitable training will be given to the post holder to enable them to become competent in every aspect of the role.

Main duties of the job

1.     CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

1.1 To provide a patient centred approach to promoting medicines optimisation at a ward-based level. The post holder is expected to apply their knowledge and skills of clinical pharmacy to all aspects of the job role.

1.2 Responsible for the development and monitoring of the ward top-up service including the updating of ward top up stock sheets in conjunction with the ward/unit

1.3 To participate in an hour of pharmacy technician accuracy checking (ACPT) per week in the main dispensary.

1.4 To deliver Medicines Management training sessions to pharmacy staff/ward based nursing staff as required.

1.5 To provide on-going medicines management training to colleagues and maintain an up to date records of any training provided

1.6 To participate in the ongoing support and development of student pharmacists and technicians, including ward-based shadowing where appropriate.

1.7 Participate in the development and expansion of role of the Medicines Management and Nursing Pharmacy Technician

Working for our organisation

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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