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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 30 hours per week (Working pattern to be agreed)
Job ref
270-TG264-CORP
Employer
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Spinneyfields
Town
Rushden
Salary
£31,049 - £37,796 pa pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
22/08/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Medicines Management Technician - Community Inpatient Services

Band 5

Job overview

NHFT is looking for a Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician to support the delivery of a clinical and technical pharmacy service to Spinneyfields inpatient unit within Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT). 

Spinneyfields provides accommodation for people requiring health and social care recovery and rehabilitation, delivered through a multi-disciplinary team employed by Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) in a recovering independence unit.  

This is a varied role with the successful applicant needing to work independently and within the pharmacy team. They will have their own clinical responsibilities which will contribute to the healthcare team and support the pharmacist attending the wards. Travel between sites will be necessary and you must be able to travel independently to other bases in the Trust across Northamptonshire.

As a Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician, you will be required to work across the community inpatient team to support with medicines reconciliation, management of medication supply for in-patients and community patients including stock, non-stock, discharge and self-administration, participation in audit, support the use of the electronic prescribing system, and supporting ward areas with management of stock medications. You will also support self-administration where this is identified as appropriate by the multidisciplinary team (MDT).

 

Main duties of the job

•    To provide medicines management pharmacy service to allocated in-patient areas
•    To work with the ward Pharmacists to identify new patients and complete the medicines reconciliation process using SystmOne, assessment of patients own medication and communication with patient/carer and/or by liaising with external organisations as appropriate.
•    To liaise with the ward pharmacists and ward staff over any relevant medicines management issues to ensure concordance/compliance with prescribed medication, highlighting any discrepancies where identified.
•    To support the MDT with assessing patients for self-administration 
•    To undertake patient counselling to selected patients and to work with the ward pharmacists to ensure patients understand their discharge medication.

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Current registration and membership with the GPhC as a Pharmacy Technician
  • NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services (or course equivalent )
  • Evidence of recent continuing professional learning
Desirable criteria
  • Previous use of SystmOne
  • Previous use of electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) systems

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Post Qualification experience in the NHS as a pharmacy technician
  • Knowledge of current medicines legislation
  • Experience of Liaising with other healthcare professionals
Desirable criteria
  • Ward based Medicines Management Technician experience
  • Membership of the APTUK
  • Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
  • Experience of counselling patients on multiple medicines

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyWorkplace Wellbeing Charter LogoArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStep into health

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Natalie Fasham
Job title
Deputy Chief Pharmacist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07730192717
Additional information

This is an exciting opportunity to join a friendly, innovative, and supportive Pharmacy Department, so for further details please contact Natalie Fasham, Deputy Chief Pharmacist on 07730192717 or email [email protected] or Dawn Watts, Head of Service - Adult Community Inpatients [email protected]

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