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Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust provides local, regional and national award-winning healthcare services. We have more than 3.300 staff working out of 20 main sites serving a population of 1.2 million people.  We provide community health services and mental health services for young people, adults and older people. Our North London Forensic Service treats and cares for people in the criminal justice system who have mental health conditions. We also provide one of the largest eating disorders services in England, as well as drug and alcohol services. 

We are an organisation that is passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion; one that prides itself in developing the leadership capabilities of its employees, looking after their health and wellbeing, creating safe spaces for staff to speak up and providing opportunities to mentor and be mentored.  Our employees are the reason for delivering Good CQC ratings, excellent outcomes and outstanding patient experiences, so it is our aim to create a happy and healthy working environment where you can thrive and succeed.  

Job overview

A great opportunity has arisen for a pharmacy technician to join our Team. It is an exciting time to be a part of Barnet, Enfield & Haringey MH Trust as you will have the opportunity to be involved in a number of projects that are changing the way we deliver mental health & community services. Current projects include:

• ePMA integration and automation
• Reducing length of in-patient stay service improvement work
• Mental Health Inpatient Programme - Medicines Optimisation Workstream                
• Community Transformation Programme

This is your chance to gain a wealth of experience and progress your pharmacy career.

This Vacancy may close early if we receive a high number of applications.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support our pharmacists to carry out medicines reconciliation for our newly admitted patients and the assessment of patients own drugs. You will support in the day to day coordination of in-patient medication supply as well discharge medicines, ward top-ups and patient counselling. You will also be involved in data collection for audits and provide training support for other healthcare staff, trainees and students.

The pharmacy service is seeking a medicines management technician to:

• Play a full and active role in the provision of a high-quality pharmaceutical service to wards, community teams, units & departments.

• Provide and participate in the following: ward–based clinical pharmacy, support the clozapine dispensing service, patient counselling, training of other healthcare professionals in medicines optimisation and management.

• Support the monitoring of clinical governance processes through undertaking ward & team-based audits.

· Support the roll out of ePMA trust wide

We are a friendly team, who are based across four main sites and are a truly trust-wide service. We are looking for a dynamic & enthusiastic leader who will help us to integrate and develop our services in line with the NHS Long Term Plan. Interested? Then why not consider applying.

Working for our organisation

The partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I) is going from strength to strength since it was originally established in 2021 forming the North London Mental Health Partnership.

Why choose to join the Partnership?

• We believe that by working together, our two Trusts can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
• Deliver the best care using the most up-to-date practise in supporting those with mental health illnesses.
• Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
• Creating and working together to become a great place to work for all our staff.
• We offer flexible working, a wide range of health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS Pension and so much more.
• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• NHS Discounts in a large variety of retail stores and services.
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.

The postholder will need to be comfortable working in an environment of complex matrix management arrangements and will at all times behave and align with our Trusts’ values and cultural pillars:

• We are kind
• We are respectful
• We work together
• We keep things simple
• We empower
• We are proudly diverse