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Pharmacy Technician

Discharge to Assess Bed-Based Units

Band 5 Secondment/Fixed term 12 months

Part time hours

Community Medicines Optimisation Services (CMOS)

Manchester Local Care Organisations (MLCO)

The pharmacy technicians improve patient care by working, city wide alongside the pharmacists and a wide variety of healthcare professionals. The role involves liaising with primary and secondary care to ensure the safe transfer of care patients into the D2A beds in care homes and also on discharge.

You will provide medicines expertise and advice at multidisciplinary team meetings to ensure that the patient gets the best possible outcome from their medicines.

CMOS is a friendly award-winning team at the forefront of the local integration agenda, developing varied and innovative new projects and ensuring our patients are supported to get the very best from their medicines. The community-based team works closely with the Manchester Foundation Trust (MFT) Pharmacy, a large forward-thinking department, enabling access to training programmes and excellent career-development opportunities.

You must have a substantial amount of hospital or primary care experience, be a Pharmacy technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC). You must have have access to a car for work purposes

Main duties of the job

Under the direction of the Senior Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist:

• Provide a medicines optimisation service to support designated Discharge to Assess Bed Based Units in Manchester and other CMOS services
• To work as part of the multidisciplinary team to:
  • Provide better co-ordinated care to patients
  • Reduce hospital re-admissions
  • Improve medicines safety
  • Improve medicines compliance
  • Reduce medicines wastage
• Encourage and support the development of good practice and safe medicines management systems in the Discharge to Assess Units and other CMOS services
• Assist in the development and implementation of medicines management policies and procedures to support safe and cost- effective use of medicines in line with local priorities, national directives, medicines legislation and professional ethics in care homes
• Contribute to new service developments and medicines optimisation projects
• Support the delivery of a medicines optimisation service to other Community Medicines Optimisation Service (CMOS) work-streams when required
• Participate in any new arrangements that may involve flexible working, in the future as required e.g. extended hours or 7-day service.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.