Are you a pharmacy technician looking for a new challenge? Do you have innovative ideas and are looking for the right team to impact positive change? Are you looking to join a multidisciplinary (MDT) team where you can develop new skills as well as teach others? An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic, and highly motivated pharmacy technician to join our Integrated Placement of Care Hub (IPOCH) in a new pharmacy role to support direct patient care and be part of our community team within Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership. The postholder will be required to work across all CCICP geographical locations to support the review of medication within patients' homes and in temporary residential care home settings. The postholder will be a registered pharmacy technician and an accuracy checker for checking dispensed prescriptions in accordance with Trust procedures. The IPOCH service now supports a number of discharge services including our hospital discharge team, transfer of care hub, home care, and community bed-based services. This team plays a significant role in supporting the flow out of hospital and providing admission avoidance support across the community. This role will require enthusiasm, self-motivation, and commitment to developing new pharmacy roles within IPOCH, developing seamless pharmaceutical care for patients across traditional health and social care boundaries, and forging excellent communication between primary and secondary care.
The postholder will:
* Carry out medicines assessments to include communication of highly complex information in the home on a 1 to 1 basis with the patients/their representatives/other healthcare professionals if appropriate.
* Work on an MDT level in both primary and secondary care to deliver patient-focused care in the community and ensure that the individual patients' medicines support needs are met.
* Support hospital discharge processes so that patients identified in hospital as having medicines support needs are followed up on discharge to ensure people with long-term conditions can safely take or be administered medicines as prescribed in the home setting.
* Review patients in hospital or temporary residential care home settings to develop care planning in relation to medication support needs.
* Provide specialist training including delivering training and competency assessing General Nursing Assistants (GNAs) and IPOCH registered nurses in medicines administration, medicines reconciliation, and transcribing.
* Provide specialist technical advice and undertake medicines reviews within clinical competence.
* Be responsible for service development, audit, and line management of pharmacy technicians working within IPOCH.
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester (population 357K). The Trust provides high-quality planned and emergency care, cardiac, critical care, child health, maternity services, and intermediate care at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford. The Trust provides over 500 beds and employs over 5,100 members of staff. A comprehensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools through our Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership. Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe, and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. 92% of our staff, when surveyed in 2020, felt that their role made a difference to their patients, and we are recognized nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives. The community arm of MCHFT, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), provides a unique local health partnership across a range of community services for people in South Cheshire and Vale Royal.
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