Are you a pharmacy technician looking to expand your knowledge and skills and try something different? Are you a champion of medicines safety and patient centred care? Are you interested in becoming a key member of the Pharmacy team for Integrated Local Services? We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and motivated pharmacy technician to join a diverse multidisciplinary team as part of our urgent community response and reablement teams.

We are looking for a senior pharmacy technician who has experience in medicines management and of influencing within teams and across the wider multi-disciplinary landscape. The post holder should be enthusiastic and patient focused with a keen interest in safe use of medicines. The role offers flexibility to plan and manage a patient caseload and work with a team of pharmacy technicians to meet the needs and goals of the service. The role will involve regular travel across the local area within Lambeth and Southwark the post holder must be able to meet the travel requirements of this post.

Closing date for applications: 18/09/2024 at midnight

Interviews will be held: provisional date 30/09/2024

Main duties of the job

To provide safe, efficient, high quality medicines management support to the Integrated Local Services (ILS) directorate, working closely with Integrated Care Pharmacists to deliver and develop the pharmacy service in accordance with the objectives set by the Lead Pharmacist Integrated Local Services (ILS).

The post holder will be involved in the provision of domiciliary medicines management and optimisation pharmacy services within ILS.

This role requires a commitment to patient centred care and will involve undertaking medicines reconciliation, assessing medicines support needs, health promotion activities, providing information and advice.

To work with the multidisciplinary team (MDT), including Adult Social Care to provide holistic care to patients in their own homes as part of the urgent community response and reablement service.

To provide high quality clinical advice to patients and healthcare professionals on medication issues promoting patient centred care and evidence-based medicine.

The post holder will also be expected to undertake clinical observations and identify patients at risk in their homes.

To contribute to the training and supervision of allied health professionals, nurses and reablement workers in medicines reconciliation and identifying medication support needs assessments.

To manage medicines stock held on community sites.

About us

Integrated Local Services provide a range of community and inpatient services for the communities of Lambeth and Southwark. Services provided include neighbourhood nursing, specialist rehabilitation & reablement, specialist palliative & end of life care, vulnerable adults and prevention services, and the @Home service.

Services are delivered in various locations e.g. health centres, community bed-based units, and patients' homes. We work closely with teams at King's College Hospital and with social, mental health and voluntary sectors.

Our aim is to enable people to live healthy independent lives for as long as possible within their normal place of residence.

Through close multi-disciplinary relationships and new ways of working, the pharmacy team enables the service to make best use of capacity to help meet demand as well as strengthen existing relations with Adult Social Care.

You will join a team of experienced pharmacists and pharmacy technicians within GSTT who are driving medicines optimisation across Lambeth and Southwark.

You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams including community matrons, GPs, therapists, consultants, community pharmacists as well as other specialist and generalist healthcare and social care practitioners to optimise medicines use.

The post offers a real opportunity to drive service development and improvement that is patient-centred, through clinical leadership and innovation.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the role and its requirements please refer to attached job description and person specification documents.

Person Specification

Knowledge / Qualifications

Essential

• BTEC Pharmaceutical Science/NVQ Level 3 or GPhC accredited equivalent
• Accuracy Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) qualification
• LPET Technician Self Development Programme- Stage 2, AIMS, MOP from HEE LaSE or equivalent Medicine Management qualification
• Registration as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Mandatory professional CPD as defined by General Pharmaceutical Council.

Desirable

• A1 workplace Assessor or working towards Practice Supervisor, Train the trainer or equivalent qualification

Experience

Essential

• Medicines management experience in a ward / community based setting, e.g. medication history taking, medicines reconciliation, medicines support needs
• Patient consultation experience
• Experience of pharmacy stock distribution and top-up services
• Previous experience of supervising staff and workload on a day-to-day basis
• Previous experience of delivering induction and competency based training
• Assessing and supporting self-administration or medicine adherence
• Delivering direct pharmaceutical care to vulnerable patients and those with long term conditions

Desirable

• Previous experience of undertaking medicines related projects and audits
• Previous experience of contributing to the development of SOPs

Skills

Essential

• Demonstrated ability to counsel and give advice to patients on their medications.
• Demonstrated ability to accurately record patient medicine reconciliation.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritise and organise routine daily tasks using own initiative
• Demonstrate ability to work to set procedures
• Demonstrate ability to work under pressure accurately.
• Demonstrate ability to motivate self and others
• Demonstrates ability to solve problems including communicating complex and sensitive information effectively.
• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of the context of integrated care , hospital and community based pharmacy in the NHS
• Familiar with medicines related issues during transfer of care

Desirable

• Understands the effects of ageing and frailty on drug handling and medicines use
• Working knowledge of current medicines related practice in the NHS within primary/community and secondary care as well as professional issues that impact on patient care

Employer details

Employer name

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Cross site- including all community sites

Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

London

SE1 7EH

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