A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the pharmacy team in supporting the rapidly expanding Hospital at Home services across MFT.
Hospital at Home promotes harmonisation of working across the acute hospitals and the community services within MFT, utilising the skills and resources available to successfully manage the acute care of patients whilst they remain in their own homes. We are looking for a General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) registered pharmacy technician with substantial experience of working within primary or secondary care. You will work alongside the pharmacist as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide medicines support and positively contribute to patient care. You should be confident in the ability to work independently with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills.
The successful candidate will become an integral part of the well supported and award-winning medicines optimisation team in providing a patient facing pharmaceutical service, working closely with the wider pharmacy teams and other services across MFT.
Main duties of the job
The Pharmacy Technician is responsible for providing technical input as part of the pharmaceutical support to the Hospital at Home Service. Domiciliary visits to patients for medicines optimisation interventions is a key feature of this role as well as multidisciplinary team (MDT) working. Other areas include:
1. Support the delivery of medicines optimisation to the Hospital at Home Service
2. Support pharmacists to establish safe working arrangements for medicines in the Community Medicines Optimisation Service
3. Assist in the development and implementation of pharmaceutical care plans
4. Liaise with pharmacists, technicians and other health care professionals in secondary and primary care to ensure continuity of care on patient transfer.
5. Carry out medication reviews with patients in area of clinical competence
6. Contribute to the discharge planning process
7. Identify and act on medication errors/queries within area of competence, reporting complex issues to a medicines optimisation pharmacist as appropriate.
8. Assist in the management of prescribing across primary care
9. Provide support to other CMOS workstreams as necessary.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you'll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We're looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Shortlisting
Essential
* Registration with GPhC
* Pharmacy technician - BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent
* A significant amount of experience working as a pharmacy technician in hospital or primary care pharmacy
* Experience of developing guidelines/ protocols/ SOP
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Understanding of current medicines optimisation issues.
* IT literate
* Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills including communicating complex or potentially distressing information to patients / carers
* Driver and Access to a Vehicle
Desirable
* BTEC for clinical pharmacy technicians
* Experience of home visits
* Experience of training healthcare professionals/ unqualified staff
* Patient consultation skills
Employer details
Employer name
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Manchester Community
Manchester
M12 6JH
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