Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Luton Adults Community services for an experienced, forward-thinking, registered Pharmacy Technician to join our established and respected pharmacy team working in our community settings.
We are looking for a pro-active, enthusiastic, and motivated pharmacy technician who will work closely with members of the multidisciplinary team to help deliver a high-quality, patient-focused pharmacy service across the Luton Adults team.
The role will involve assessing, planning, and providing medicines management interventions for patients across the community/primary care interface, in cooperation with other members of the integrated health and social care teams.
Main duties of the job
Provide innovative medicines management services to patients in their own home as part of a crisis response and also planned proactive interventions, working closely with other health and social care professionals involved in the patient's re-enablement.
The aim is to improve patient outcomes by optimising the use of medicines by patients in the community. This will improve patient care by ensuring that the right patients get the right choice of medicine at the right time. By focusing on patients and their experiences, the goal is to help patients to improve their outcomes; take their medicines correctly; avoid taking unnecessary medicines; reduce waste of medicines, and improve medicines safety. Ultimately, medicines optimisation can help encourage patients to take ownership of their treatment.
Communicate clear and accurate medicine-related information, both verbal and written to patients/carers and other health professionals.
The post-holder will promote effective medicines management, escalating poor practice and sharing best practice in the domiciliary setting.
The responsibilities of this post require significant autonomy and decision making supported by policies and procedures. The post does not include dispensing of medication.
There is also a requirement to be able to handle sensitive and potentially difficult patient issues and lone working as well as travel across Luton.
Job responsibilities
* Work in partnership with a range of multidisciplinary and organisational personnel within both the hospital and community settings, requiring a collaborative approach with the patient, their family, and social network, as well as colleagues in health and social care including the Interface Pharmacist.
* Act as a liaison between the community and acute sector in relation to the pharmacy pathway for the patient when required.
* Liaise and collaborate with Luton Integrated Care Board (ICB) medicines management team, attending relevant meetings where improvements to local service delivery and patient outcomes will be discussed.
* Facilitate clear and effective communication channels between patients, relatives, carers, and professional community colleagues to ensure seamless patient care.
* Enable patients and carers to participate in their medication regime, thus encouraging independence and self-reliance.
* Support aversion of admission in the community and hospital admissions by contributing to rapid assessment and appropriate medication support for patients to remain in the community.
* Devise and provide individualised, structured medication counselling programmes, particularly for those identified as being at risk of medication-related problems.
* Complete complex assessments and contribute to care plans in the community ensuring adequate liaison for safe discharge/transfer and seamless service.
* Provide domiciliary visits to review medication-taking activities in patients identified as being at high risk of medication-related problems that have been recently discharged from acute care.
* Accept referrals from other healthcare professionals for patients deemed to be at risk from their medicines.
* Maintain accurate documentation and records as per Trust record keeping policy.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
* BTEC or NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Services sufficient for registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Completion of 'in-house' medicines management competency programme or equivalent.
Experience
* Significant experience of medicine management and understanding its application in community settings.
* Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and autonomous working.
* Experience of direct patient care and patient medication counselling.
Knowledge and Skills
* Good verbal and written communication skills.
* Able to work independently to meet agreed objectives.
* Experience of using SystmOne.
Other
* Due to the nature of the role, it is essential that applicants are able to travel independently across the locality and have access to a suitable mode of transport for business purposes.
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.
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
£29,970 to £36,483 a year, pro-rata
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