Main area Pharmacy Grade Band 4 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (bank holidays and weekends)
Job ref 457-24-6802493
Employer: Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Michael Carlisle Centre
Town: Sheffield
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 pa (dependent on experience)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/03/2025 23:59
About us
At Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust we provide a range of mental health, learning disability, substance misuse, primary care and other specialist services designed around the needs of people in our city.
We have a dedicated and skilful team of people caring in Sheffield, which you could become a part of.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do: working together for our service users, respect and kindness, everyone counts, commitment to quality, improving lives.
Job overview
If you are looking for a new challenge in a supportive, enthusiastic and caring environment in a lovely part of Sheffield; Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust Pharmacy are looking to recruit well-motivated, forward-thinking professionals to join our friendly team.
You will need to have excellent communication skills and enjoy working as part of a large multi-disciplinary team. You will need to be friendly, approachable, adaptable, flexible, willing to learn new skills and be committed to continuous professional development.
You will need to hold a recognised Pharmacy Technician qualification (BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences, NVQ level 3 or equivalent) and be a technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. We are recruiting Pharmacy Technicians ideally with hospital experience, but welcome applications from community technicians. We welcome newly qualified or students due to qualify.
Main duties of the job
Your role as an MMT will involve delivering a medicine optimisation service to provide high quality, effective pharmacy care to service users across the mental health inpatient and community settings. You will work closely with both the wider pharmacy team and the integrated MDT's to develop new ways of working to improve medicine optimisation.
We are looking to appoint highly dynamic, committed, and self-motivated pharmacy technicians who can work in a fast-paced environment with our pharmacy team and work towards becoming an Accredited Medicine Management Technician and Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician.
Working for our organisation
Become part of a vibrant team who are extremely passionate about staff engagement, culture, and improvement, where everyone has a voice and where service users and staff collaborate to have a direct impact on the things that matter most.
Our friendly department provides an environment that supports learning, team working and encourages individuals to develop in their role.
The Pharmacy Department is a forward-thinking and progressive department seeking to expand our current team as we develop a patient-focused and modern hospital pharmacy service to the Trust while constantly looking at ways to further improve our service.
We understand the importance of great team working and have strong links with other disciplines within and around the trust. The patient is at the Centre of all that we do, and we aim to provide a pharmacy service that has medicine optimisation as key.
We are looking to recruit full time (37.5) hours per week. We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly or part time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The following represent a broad outline of tasks the post holder will be expected to perform in achieving their key result areas. These are not intended as a fixed list of duties. The post holder will, under the direction of the Chief Pharmacist, Senior Pharmacist and Senior Technicians, perform whatever duties are reasonably necessary to achieve the job purpose and the overall safe provision of pharmacy services throughout the Trust:
* To work closely with the Senior Pharmacy Technicians, Lead Pharmacists and pharmacy team in providing a medicine management service to the wards.
* To obtain accurate medicine reconciliations in a timely manner from service users/carers/care providers and identify and inform the pharmacist of any anomalies found. Document medicine reconciliation onto JAC and Insight.
* To identify, assess and check suitability of patients' own drugs for administration use while an inpatient and on discharge.
* To highlight the need for any additional compliance aids and supply if necessary, to assist with medication compliance.
* To liaise with GP’s, community pharmacies and other primary care professionals to ensure safe use of medicines and continuity of care is maintained.
* To participate in discharge planning with other multidisciplinary teams ensuring medications are prescribed efficiently.
* To work on various wards/areas to provide pharmacy services including assessing, checking and re-using patient own drugs, giving advice to staff and service users, providing information on local guidelines and policies and ensuring they remain up to date.
* To engage and participate in discharge planning and dispensing of prescriptions in a timely manner to ensure medicines are available for the service user to take home and provide any medication counselling if needed.
* To order any medicines required for service users and ward stocks.
* To organise and participate in quarterly controlled drug checks at ward level and return any unused or expired drugs back to pharmacy following the relevant SOPs.
* Assist in any relevant audits in accordance with clinical governance requirements.
* Assist in training newly appointed medicine management technicians.
* Participate in training of ward and development of ward staff on efficient systems of ordering, EPMA.
* To regularly “top up” stocks to wards and complete regular checks.
* To maintain and plan own CPD to maintain skills and knowledge required by GPHC.
Other Duties
* To work as an accredited accuracy checking technician after obtaining the necessary competency training and qualification.
* To participate in efficient stock control and stock management systems.
* To assist in the dispensary and cover for other staff members.
* Participate in departmental systems of supervision and peer review.
* Assist in the provision of other routine supplies to external units.
* To be able to order and support the procuring of medicines.
* Participate in bank holiday, late night, early morning and weekend rotas as needed.
* To deliver training presentations as part of a team to department and ward staff.
* To respond to queries and information requests.
* Undergo further training as necessary and attend regular progress reviews.
* Participate in regular supervision.
* Attend all mandatory training.
Person specification
Training and Qualification
* Hospital experience.
* EPMA/CMM experience.
Experience
* Recent employment as pharmacy technician.
* Evidence of working in a MDT.
* Hospital experience.
* Working as an MMT.
* IT experience.
* Evidence of involvement in medicine management.
Knowledge and Skills
* Ability to work independently and as part of a MDT.
* Friendly and self-motivated.
* Professional approach.
* Numerate and literate.
* Trustworthy and reliable.
* Good interpersonal skills.
Driver
* Driver with access to a car.
We aim to be an organisation that is diverse and inclusive and to meet this aim we welcome applications from people with a wide range of life experience and whose diversity echoes the diversity of Sheffield, that of the people who use our services, and that of the people who may need to use our services but face barriers to access.
We are a Disability Confident employer level 2 and hope to achieve level 3 this year. We offer a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for a role.
Our six staff network groups welcome new members, these are:
* The Ethnically Diverse Staff Network Group.
* The Disability Staff Network Group.
* The Lived Experience Staff Network Group.
* The Rainbow Staff Network Group.
* The Staff Carers Staff Network Group.
* The Women’s Staff Network Group.
We know how important flexible working can be to applicants and therefore we encourage you to discuss any working arrangements as part of this process. We will always aim to accommodate requests, wherever possible.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children and as part of our safe recruitment practice the successful applicant(s) will be subject to a check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) if it is deemed appropriate for the role.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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