Job summary
Employer heading
Lead Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician
Band 6
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
If so we would like you to join our mental health pharmacy team. You must be someone who works well in a dynamic team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. You will also need to have the skills to be able to work within the wider multi-disciplinary team of nurses and doctors and other allied healthcare professionals and managers. You will want to develop and improve the reliability and quality of our clinical pharmacy service. You will need to have specific experience working with pharmacy teams and patients within the mental health setting. You will want to reach targets set by the Trust and by the pharmacy service. You must be self- motivated and able to motivate others.
Our ELFT pharmacy team provides pharmacy services to a wide range of community and inpatient service users in Luton and Bedforshire, City and Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets. This includes children and young people to adults of working age, older adults, and forensic patients. We provide a broad range of clinical pharmacy services to our inpatient wards and are supported by trained medicines management technicians.
Main duties of the job
You will lead on the provision of pharmacy services in City and Hackney, including forensic services. You will also provide support to the medicines management technicians and pharmacists, provide operational support where required, provide a clinical pharmacy service to inpatient wards and work with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of a safe and effective service to mental health patients in our directorate. You will have a particular role in implementing and monitoring the clinical pharmacy standards and working closely with the Pharmacy Services Manager to identify service gaps. You will be responsible for areas of service and line management of pharmacists and technicians. You will also be involved in working with the other lead pharmacists in undertaking and developing audits and projects to evaluate and improve services alongside pharmacy and trust priorities and objectives.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The postholder must be able to show compassion and respect for people with mental health problems and be driven to improve their care through medicine management.
Person specification
Educational/ Qualification
Essential criteria
- • BTEC/ City & Guilds/NVQ3 pharmacy or equivalent
- • Accredited MMT technician
- • Regional Accreditation for Checking dispensed items (ACT accreditation)
- • Educational Supervisor
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience in hospital pharmacy post qualification
- • Success in a previous post requiring completion of work to deadlines
- • Management experience
- • Working within a multidisciplinary team
- • Implemented/provided a Self Administration Scheme
- • Experience in tutoring and training
- • Drug history taking
- • Ward based clinical work
- • Previous experience of audit
Desirable criteria
- • Previous experience in providing clinical mental health services.
- • Producing reports
- • Creating rota
Knowledge/ Skills
Essential criteria
- • Able to monitor, review and develop service standards
- • Use of Microsoft Excel/Word to intermediate level Able
- • Good written and oral communication skills
- • Numerate – able to perform simple calculations
- • Ability to work carefully with attention to detail
- • Ability to work unsupervised in an organised manner
- • Ability to plan work & meet targets
- • Ideas of how ward services may develop over the next few years and the factors that may affect these developments
Desirable criteria
- • Awareness of the issues around quality and patient care
- • Awareness of risk management issues
- • Understanding the discharge process
- • Use JAC/RIO
- • Carrying out Quality improvement projects
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Susana Fontelo
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02085107250
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