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Senior Pharmacy Technician – Medicines Management
| Posting date: | 13 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,407 - £34,581 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 April 2024 |
| Location: | Upton, CH49 5PE |
| Company: | Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6106899/408-24-266 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and proactive pharmacy technician to join our ward-level clinical team at Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We are a busy department and are looking for a highly motivated individual that shares our vision and is looking for a new challenge.
It is essential that you can work accurately under pressure and possess the ability to manage and prioritise your workload efficiently ensuring a high level of professionalism, alongside providing a high-quality service to our patients.
Applicants will be patient-focused, have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and passionate about upholding Trust values in order to provide the best possible service.
• Provide the medicines management service to designated ward areas as part of theclinical pharmacy team, which involves following relevant medicines managementprocedures in order to deliver the service in a safe and effective manner but working unsupervised in clinical areas.
• Take drug histories on admission areas and in other areas on request.
• Assess patient’s own drugs to ensure they are labelled appropriately and meet required standards for administration. This involves checking the suitability ofpatient’s own drugs i.e. correct patient name on label, expiry date, re-labelling ifnecessary and gaining patient consent for the use or destruction of medication brought into hospital.
• Provide appropriate supplies of inpatient medicines for bedside administration (stockand non-stock medicines).
• Initiate supply of non-stock items for one-stop dispensing i.e., ordering medicationlabelled ready for discharge when appropriate and ensure that sufficient supplies of medication are available in each patient’s.
• Undertake competency- b a s e d training in the administration of medicines and beproficient at administering oral and inhaled medications, eye/ear/nasaldrops/ointment/sprays and topical patches.
• Administer medications, including controlled drugs, to inpatients accurately against an electronic prescription chart in a safe and timely manner.
• Take drug histories on admission areas and in other areas on request.
All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as “competent and caring staff” by our patients.
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.
We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral’s only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.
We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.
The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.
Please see attached Job Description for further information about the Senior Pharmacy Technician – Medicines Management position available at WUTH.
This advert closes on Wednesday 27 Mar 2024
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and proactive pharmacy technician to join our ward-level clinical team at Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We are a busy department and are looking for a highly motivated individual that shares our vision and is looking for a new challenge.
It is essential that you can work accurately under pressure and possess the ability to manage and prioritise your workload efficiently ensuring a high level of professionalism, alongside providing a high-quality service to our patients.
Applicants will be patient-focused, have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and passionate about upholding Trust values in order to provide the best possible service.
• Provide the medicines management service to designated ward areas as part of theclinical pharmacy team, which involves following relevant medicines managementprocedures in order to deliver the service in a safe and effective manner but working unsupervised in clinical areas.
• Take drug histories on admission areas and in other areas on request.
• Assess patient’s own drugs to ensure they are labelled appropriately and meet required standards for administration. This involves checking the suitability ofpatient’s own drugs i.e. correct patient name on label, expiry date, re-labelling ifnecessary and gaining patient consent for the use or destruction of medication brought into hospital.
• Provide appropriate supplies of inpatient medicines for bedside administration (stockand non-stock medicines).
• Initiate supply of non-stock items for one-stop dispensing i.e., ordering medicationlabelled ready for discharge when appropriate and ensure that sufficient supplies of medication are available in each patient’s.
• Undertake competency- b a s e d training in the administration of medicines and beproficient at administering oral and inhaled medications, eye/ear/nasaldrops/ointment/sprays and topical patches.
• Administer medications, including controlled drugs, to inpatients accurately against an electronic prescription chart in a safe and timely manner.
• Take drug histories on admission areas and in other areas on request.
All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as “competent and caring staff” by our patients.
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.
We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral’s only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.
We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.
The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.
Please see attached Job Description for further information about the Senior Pharmacy Technician – Medicines Management position available at WUTH.
This advert closes on Wednesday 27 Mar 2024
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