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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced medicines management pharmacy technician to lead and coordinate the delivery of a responsive, proactive, patient-focused clinical pharmacy technician service to the wards. This will include the promotion of safe, effective, and cost-effective drug use to facilitate patient admission and enhance continuity of care across the primary/ secondary interface. This includes being responsible for leading the team of MMTs, rotational

pharmacy technicians, satellite-based pharmacy support workers and pre-registration trainee pharmacy technician trainees (PTPTs), ensuring that their induction, training, assessment, and appraisal is being managed.

The postholder will be responsible for leading and maintaining a pharmacy technician medicines management service at ward level. This will include a high standard of medicines reconciliation, the assessment of patients own drugs, providing original pack dispensing, counselling patients about their medicines and co-ordinating supply of both in-patient and discharge medicines.

The postholder will promote high quality drug use, effective risk management, patient safety - clinical governance initiatives and adherence to trust policies, guidelines and advises on drug budget management in these areas and carry out pharmacy practice research and clinical audit in this area of practice. They will support the senior pharmacy and nursing teams in ensuring that Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards are maintained and that they promote continuous improvement schemes to address identified actions when needed.

The postholder will have responsibility for the day-to-day running of the medical satellite pharmacy including allocation of work and ordering and supply of medicines. They will also be responsible for ensuring that junior staff are trained and competent do undertake their roles within this area.

Potential candidates should be an accredited checking technician with experience of working at ward level and managing a team. They will be confident with the use of pharmacy systems including the ordering of medicines and have a strong commitment to training staff

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be responsible for leading and maintaining a pharmacy technician medicines management service at ward level. This will include a high standard of medicines reconciliation, the assessment of patients own drugs, providing original pack dispensing, counselling patients about their medicines and co-ordinating supply of both in- patient and discharge medicines.

They will promote high quality drug use, effective risk management, patient safety - clinical governance initiatives and adherence to trust policies and guidelines and advises on drug budget management in these areas and carry out pharmacy practice research and clinical audit in this area of practice.

The postholder will have responsibility for the day-to-day running of the medical satellite pharmacy including allocation of work and ordering and supply of medicines. They will also be responsible for ensuring that junior staff are trained and competent do undertake their roles within this area. They will lead and coordinate the delivery of a responsive, proactive, patient-focused clinical pharmacy service to the wards. This will include the promotion of safe, effective, and cost-effective drug use to facilitate patient admission and enhance continuity of care across the primary/secondary interface. This includes being responsible for leading the team of ward-based pharmacy technicians and ensuring that their induction, training, and appraisal is being managed.

 The postholder will promote high quality drug use, effective risk management, patient safety - clinical governance initiatives and adherence to trust policies and guidelines and advises on drug budget management in these areas and carry out pharmacy practice research and clinical audit in this area of practice. As with all staff, they will consistently work in an accurate, effective, and efficient manner to support the provision of a high-quality service to patients, trust staff and departments. They will be part of a high performing team that is expected to demonstrate the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust values. This means that in undertaking this role the post holder is always expected to behave in a way that demonstrates commitment to the delivery of respectful and compassionate care.

The post-holder must always carry out their role in line with the Trust World Class values.

Working for our organisation

Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

 Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff. The Pharmacy department at The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is an ambitious and quality improvement focused team who are committed to optimising the use of medicines and providing the best pharmaceutical care to our patients. We are proud to lead the way in integrated training partnerships, digital transformation, and cost improvement programmes (CIP).

 The Pharmacy Service comprises of Inpatient and Outpatient dispensary services, ward based clinical pharmacy services, Medicines Information, aseptic and non-sterile production services, pharmacy stores & distribution, procurement, and homecare services. We cover a range of clinical specialties including HIV, general medicine, emergency services, surgery, rheumatology, hepatology, anti-coagulation, oncology & haematology, women’s health, paediatrics, and infection control.

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