Are you an experienced, innovative and motivated Pharmacy Technician looking to progress your career? We are looking for an enthusiastic and passionate Pharmacy Technician to support the delivery of high quality medicines optimisation services. If this is you, AWP are looking for a Medicines Optimisation Team Leader to join our growing Clinical Pharmacy team.
This post provides leadership to the Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technicians and Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Assistants, on the east-side of the Trust, covering the Bath, Swindon and Wiltshire localities (BSW).
The main purpose of this role is to work closely with the Lead Pharmacy Technician - Medicines Optimisation and Locality Lead Pharmacists to ensure that Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technicians, and other technical staff contribute fully to medicines optimisation activities, work to appropriate clinical standards and develop the service in line with local and national strategies and standards.
The AWP Pharmacy Service has a strong focus on developing staff to their full potential, and applicants that do not have a background in mental health will be supported to access the training required to do so. We also support staff to access leadership programmes, such as CPPE Leading for Change and NHS Leadership Academy programmes.
This post is open to GPhC-registered Pharmacy Technicians only., + To support the Lead Medicines Optimisation Technician (B7) in the delivery of Trust-wide medicines management and optimisation.
+ To work collaboratively with the Lead Medicines Optimisation Technician to manage the clinical pharmacy technical team, including annual leave, rotas, HR issues and training.
+ To engage with stakeholders across the Trust to deliver medicines management and optimisation
+ Provision of a pharmacy-led medicines management technician service to the inpatient wards and community teams.
+ To undertake and oversee medicine audits.
+ To investigate incidents, identify and implement learning.
+ Contribute to quality improvement projects.
+ Development and implementation of pharmacy standard operating procedures and guidelines.
+ To maintain accuracy checking competency through regular checking sessions on the rota.
+ To provide support and cover for the Lead Medicines Optimisation Technician.
+ To support with recruitment and undertake line management responsibilities of pharmacy technicians.
+ To provide mentoring for pharmacy technicians to enable them to achieve competency and knowledge in medicines used to treat mental health disorders.
+ Support the clinical use of the electronic prescribing and administration system (ePMA)., The AWP pharmacy service employs approximately 60 staff. There are two technician-led dispensaries in the Trust (one in Bristol, and one in Calne, Wiltshire), and clinical pharmacy teams embedded in the locality ward/community team bases. Each locality has a locality lead pharmacist, clinical pharmacists and medicines optimisation technicians. As well as managing the medicines supply chain in the trust, we support the safe and effective use of medicines throughout the organisation through our clinical work, enquiry answering, medicines governance activity and many other roles. The team are friendly, dynamic and evolving, with aspirations to improve patient care across the AWP geography.
Please read the full job description, person specification for the role to ensure you meet the essential criteria.
We are proud to be fostering a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. A key commitment to this is improving staff representation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, those from the LGBTQ+ communities, people with 'lived-experience' of mental health conditions and people living with disabilities,- we are a 'Disability Confident Employer' offering a guaranteed interview to Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service users.
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Working for our organisation
We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust) a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.
We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.
Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.