Senior Pharmacy Technician | Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 18 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 May 2024 |
| Location: | Lincoln, LN5 7JH |
| Company: | Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6192301/818-COR162 |
Summary
Responsible for delivering, managing and developing management of medicines within Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust.
Lead on the development of a culture of continuous learning and quality improvement, working closely to advise and guide service managers.
To support Community Nursing with visiting patients, reviewing medicines and errors and specialist support to the Division.
No Weekends
Outstanding CQC rating
Forefront of innovation
New ways of working with a growing Pharmacy team
1. To ensure that medicines related stock processes are undertaken in line with Trust policies and current medicines legislation. Ensuring medicines are regularly reviewed with operational staff and specialist pharmacy services.
2. Joint responsibility, along with all other medicines management staff, pharmacists and ward technicians, for the safety and security of all medicines including controlled drugs.
3. Participate with other staff, including pharmacists, in ensuring the appropriate / effective use of medicines for patients within all operational services; ensuring medicines related problems are dealt with promptly and by an appropriate person.
4. Participate in the medicines related training of clinical based staff, communicating medicines management and technical information to services and individual staff members.
5. Supervise stock management processes within clinical services and advise on practice and process. Ensure that prescribing and supply is undertaken to reflect the contents of the Lincolnshire Joint formulary, challenging where appropriate. To collect data from various sources to provide reports e.g. from NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) and services and finance teams to monitor activity in conjunction with guidelines and formularies and present to Drug and Therapeutics
committee.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagementin the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.
At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS’ workforce.
LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.
We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an ‘earn while you learn’ apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out morehttps://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev
Detailed job description and main responsibilities as per attached Job Description and Person Specification.
This advert closes on Monday 13 May 2024