This post is patient-facing and involves working alongside our established clinical pharmacy team and wider multi-disciplinary team to deliver a specialised service to our respiratory patients at City Hospital including our more complex chronic severe asthma/COPD and cystic fibrosis patients. You will have a key role in service improvements, supporting with medicines reconciliation, counselling and leading on our respiratory near-patient discharge service. You will be fully supported by a team of experienced pharmacists, medicines management technicians and assistants.
If you are an experienced, self-motivated medicines management technician with a passion for respiratory, this could be the job for you.
In this role you will have both leadership, management and clinical responsibilities and will be the chief medicines management technician leading service improvements to the Respiratory specialty.
You will deliver patient-facing clinical pharmacy care to the Respiratory Specialty and will work closely with the Respiratory Pharmacy Team to ensure the delivery of a safe, efficient, high quality and cost effective technical ward service. You will also work as part of the wider Respiratory MDT to deliver specialist outpatient services.
With over 19,000 staff,we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH
In addition to the below summary, please familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents attached to the advert.
• To be the lead technician for service improvement and strategic development ofthe clinical and operational technical pharmacy services to the Respiratory specialty.
• To be responsible for ensuring the delivery of a safe, efficient, high quality, innovative and cost-effective technical ward service by ensuring services are delivered to the minimum of accepted local and national standards, meeting current and future legal requirements and professional guidelines and ethical codes of practice.
• To be responsible for the planning and delivery of a safe and effective technical ward service, in conjunction with the pharmacy clinical team to the respiratory ward areas. To ensure appropriate levels and skill mix of technical staff are available to maintain agreed standards of service delivery.
• To support the respiratory pharmacists and wider respiratory MDT to deliver specialist outpatient services (including but not exclusive to asthma adherence checks, homecare provision of medications).
• To work in conjunction with other lead medicines management technicians to develop and deliver the ward technician training programme, ensuring quality monitoring systems are developed, implemented and agreed, and that targets and standards are set.
• To line manage the Medicines Management Technicians and Medicines Management Assistants within the Respiratory Pharmacy team.
This advert closes on Thursday 24 Oct 2024