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    Older Adult Intensive Home Treatment Team Practitioner - Bury, United Kingdom - Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

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    Job overview

    We are looking for a self-motivated pharmacy technician to join our friendly mental health pharmacy team based at Tameside General Hospital.

    The individual must be a good communicator, accurate, enthusiastic, flexible, and able to use their own initiative and work as part of a busy team.

    All applicants must have a recognised Pharmacy technician qualification, NVQ level 3, BTEC, City & Guilds or equivalent experience, must be an accredited accuracy checker and registered with the GPhC.

    Main duties of the job

    To participate in the development of a range of medicines management activities at ward
    level including medication history taking and reconciliation.
    To coordinate the supply of medication to ensure good medicines management practices.
    To act as a key member of the multidisciplinary ward team and the wider pharmacy team
    providing medicines management advice to healthcare professionals and patients / carers
    To participate in local and national audits and provide information as required.

    Working for our organisation

    Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust is a diverse provider of NHS mental and learning disability services in Greater Manchester. The mental health pharmacy team in Tameside is small and very friendly. Are you looking for a new and exciting challenge? If yes our team is exactly that with plenty of opportunities for self development and impacting change.

    Detailed job description and main responsibilities

    To undertake and participate in Medicines Reconciliation on admission.
    To assist in the development of and undertake ward based dispensing duties.
    To undertake required audit work on a monthly basis
    To support staff around medication error incidents and ways to improve accurate
    medicine administration
    To act as an Accredited Technician Checker
    To carry out three monthly Controlled Drug (CD) checks
    To contribute to the development and review of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
    To support the in-house investigation and resolution of medicines management related incidents

    Person specification

    Education & Qualification

    Essential criteria

    • BTEC Certificate in Pharmaceutical Sciences/ NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent)
    • Registered with the GPhC / proof of application in process
    • Accuracy checking accreditation

    Experience

    Essential criteria

    • Substantial experience as qualified technician in hospital pharmacy
    • Substantial experience of dispensary and ward based services
    • Experience of implementing change and new developments
    • Experience of developing guidelines / protocols / SOP
    • Experience of training healthcare professionals/ unqualified staff
    • Experience of audit

    Knowledge

    Essential criteria

    • Knowledge of dispensary and patient services
    • Good presentation skills (verbal and written)
    • Good technical pharmaceutical knowledge
    • Good clinical pharmaceutical knowledge

    Desirable criteria

    • Good IT skills (including word processing and spreadsheets)

    Skills and Abilities

    Essential criteria

    • Self-motivated
    • Data Analysis
    • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
    • Ability to work as a team member and independently
    • Ability to work with multidisciplinary , multi-agency groups
    • Ability to identify when advice needs to be sought


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