Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician- Discharge to Assess Pathways / Community Services

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is unique in combining physical and mental health, learning disability, community and adult social care services in a single Trust across Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent and Shropshire supporting the provision of a truly integrated care framework across health and social care services

This is an unique and exciting opportunity to lead on the development and delivery of an Integrated Home First Medicines Optimisation Service to improve safe transfer and use of medicines across clinical interfaces to meet all legal requirements and the Good Practice Standards prescribed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and other relevant agencies to support safe administration of medicines in community settings to meet the recommendations published by NICE NG 67 Managing medicines for adults receiving social care in the community.

The working hours are 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday with limited late shift duties and Bank Holiday commitments. This provides a fantastic work life balance whilst being a valued member of the Pharmacy Medicines Optimisation Team. The post holder may be required to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team within the North and South Home First Hubs and support the Lead Pharmacist in the establishment and management of care pathways for the referral of patients referred in to the Home First Service with medicine-related problems for assessment, support and follow-up by a specialist pharmacy team, working across health and social care interfaces. This role will involve cross sector working in the community with multiple agencies and Primary Care Networks (PCNs) to support with complex medication reviews for patients in their own homes.

This role will be extremely rewarding, and requires a motivated, dynamic individual who is experienced in working with a range of stakeholders and has a track record for service development and delivering to agreed targets.

You will be a GPHC registered pharmacy technician with excellent interpersonal and IT skills. This is a permanent full-time post although part time hours or a job share will be considered.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to �2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to �250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB PURPOSE:1.The post holder will provide expert advice and support on all aspects of medicines optimisation to ensure use of medicines is optimised and meets safety, statutory and governance requirements. In conjunction with the Integrated Care Pharmacist, the post holder will2.Act as first point of contact for any medicines management issues and support all aspects of medicines management within the service they will work independently to provide a seamless pathway for medication support from in-patient to community services/patient home.3.Support the development of a priortisation matrix, referral pathways in to the medicines optimisation team and undertake structured medication reviews including domiciliary visits when required that work to reduce the risk of harm from taking medicines.4.Carry out and support procedures for medicines reconciliation, medicine adherence and self- administration to ensure pharmaceutical care is appropriate in community care and home settings. Structured medication reviews targeted to those people with the most significant health needs will be undertaken in coordination with acute Trusts, GPs and practice-based clinical pharmacists to reduce overmedication, re-admissions and support meaningful savings in unnecessary prescribing costs5.Support Escalation and Resolution of medication related discrepancies/queries with external stakeholders (acute Trusts/community pharmacies/GP) and ensures that requests are processed safely and prioritised to match clinical urgency. Support reduction in medication escalation to on-call clinical leads6.The post holder will create MARs charts using the Trust MAPPs system, which will be used by the Home Fist Support Workers to record administration of medication to the patient / service user7.Provide professional advice and support to other health and social care professionals on the safe prescribing, handling and administration of medicines working within the limits of their knowledge at all times and referring to a pharmacist where necessary.8.Provide tailored interventions based on an individual level of need and circumstances support re-ablement, promote independence and self-care9.Identify, develop and provide support to meet medicines related training needs for clinical and non-clinical staff to reduce medicines related adverse incidents and improve outcomes10.Develop partnerships and facilitating collaborative working between multidisciplinary teams especially during the transfer of care to optimise medicine-related discharge processes, ensure safe transitions of care and reduce readmissions. This will include developing links to Care Homes, GP Practices and Primary Care Networks11.Support policy and service development within the service, and be responsive to emerging problems and variations as and when they arise, escalating where necessary.12. The post holder will work as part of the pharmacy team at MPFT to ensure the safe, effective and economical use of medicines, supporting the development of a comprehensive medicines optimisation service to all of our service users.13.The post holder will be expected to be responsible for planning and delivering own workload and agreeing deadlines, to promote safe, legal, rational and economic use of medicines by all users of the pharmacy service.14.Support a learning culture within all health and social care services to ensure continual service improvement.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

Essential

• BTEC and NVQ3 (or equivalent) in Pharmaceutical Science
• Registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable

• Nationally recognised qualification as accredited Medicines Management Technician
• Nationally recognised Accredited Checking Technician Certificate

Experience

Essential

• Knowledge of the principles of medicines optimisation
• Experience in a broad range of hospital/community pharmacy activities, including dispensary management and clinical pharmacy activites

Desirable

• Risk Managment
• Staff Management

Employer details

Employer name

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Haywood Hospital - post is Countywide

High Lane

Burslem

ST6 7AG

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