Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Would you like work in a new Pharmacy sector within our NHS Community Services team? Do you want to work with multi-professional colleagues to bring a joined-up Pharmacy service to patients in the Community?
We have a new position for a practical minded and clinically focused Medicines Management Technician to join our established and highly valued Urgent Community Response Team based at Crediton Hospital.
Main duties of the job
As a key member of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, you will be joining an exceptional team working together to help our patients to stay healthy, when they need it most.
Job responsibilities
This is a community-based team which provides short-term support to people in their own home who need urgent additional input to stay well at home. Patients have either been recently discharged from a hospital stay or referred to the team to make timely interventions to prevent a hospital admission altogether. The specialist medicines knowledge of a pharmacy technician will enhance the current UCR team skill set, which consists of occupational therapists, physiotherapists, nurses, community matrons, support workers, therapy assistants, administrators and in some locations GPs and paramedics.
This will be a varied and fulfilling patient facing role and will include tasks such as providing patient education, supporting adherence, and recommending clinical interventions to GP and PCN pharmacy colleagues to improve the care of patients. You will provide a medicines reconciliation service to new patients referred to the UCR teams and assist with the transcription of MAR charts when the team is required to administer medication to patients.
You will be part of the wider network of clinical pharmacy teams based in the Community Services division and will be professionally supported by a community services pharmacist. You will have excellent communication skills and enjoy solving medication related queries. You will have a strong desire to enable patients to optimise the use of medicines. You will provide safe and timely adherence advice to patients at home and ensure onward communication to relevant parties. You will be flexible, organised and able to adapt to the changing needs of patients with an ability to prioritise workload at short notice in response to the demands of the service.
You will provide and receive mutual mentoring, training and support to staff who work alongside you in the UCR teams and the wider pharmacy team. This role offers excellent opportunities for personal development for GPhC registered medicines management technicians from any sector. We will support your career progression and personal development in all aspects of this role, including how to use the Trust electronic patient record system.
Working Pattern: 22.5 hours per week
Person Specification
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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