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Main Responsibilities:

Clinical Practice

1. Assist in the delivery of a high-quality dispensing service to HMP Aylesbury, ensuring medicines are dispensed to agreed standards, calculating doses and quantities for supply. Including the supply of medicines in Monitored Dosage Systems.
2. Ensure that pharmacy technical operations (ordering, handling, storage and disposal of medicines) are undertaken in a safe, secure and efficient manner that complies with medicines legislation and good practice
3. Liaise with other members of the healthcare team (including doctors, consultants and nurses), providing medicines related guidance, to reduce medicines errors.
4. Provide medication on an individual patient basis, effectively delivering complex information and advice to prescribers, patients and carers where necessary. This may involve use of negotiation and persuasion skills in order to overcome barriers.
5. Support healthcare staff to ensure prescribing and administration of medicines takes place in accordance with local policy.
6. Ensure patient related records are kept up to date.
7. Provide medicines education and information to patients including undertaking non- compliance clinics to improve medicines adherence.
8. Contribute to pharmacy audits / reports by collating data information and supporting with the implementation of any action plan(s) as an outcome
9. Act as an Accredited Checking Technician following appropriate training and accreditation.
10. Work as a member of the wider healthcare team to administer medication to patients when required.
11. Provide a second check for the administration of controlled drugs when required.
12. Assist with the purchase of medicines and equipment ensuring this is cost effective to the Trust.
13. Review prescriptions to ensure medicines are available for patients at the correct time and place.
14. Undertake in-possession risk assessments.
15. Help reduce waste by evaluating returned medicines and patient own medicines for reuse.
16. Audit the controlled drug record keeping across the prison.
17. Dispensing stock-controlled drug requisitions to clinical areas ensuring legislation and local procedures are followed.
18. Maintain up to date stock lists for all treatment areas ensuring they reflect current requirements
19. Participate in Medicines reconciliation process
20. Participating in Medicines Management checks for clinical areas within the Prison