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Clinical Pharmacy Technician - Medicines Management
| Posting date: | 04 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | £35,392.00 to £42,618.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £35392.00 - £42618.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 June 2024 |
| Location: | Warwick, CV34 5BW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9203-24-0609 |
Summary
To contribute to the delivery of a proactive and highly visible clinical & technical pharmacy service within the clinical specialty in line with operational requirements and medicines optimisation initiatives. To work with the Lead Pharmacist to successfully deliver on clinical and medicines optimisation outcomes in the specialist area. To prepare and present progress reports and audits to agreed timescale. To be responsible for the cascading of relevant information / communications. To support the Lead Pharmacist to collate the information needed to demonstrate progress with National and Local CQUINs, Key Performance Indicators and National Standards in the specialty. To monitor achievements against the above indicators and identify failures to meet targets. To proactively engage Clinicians with the Lead Pharmacist in developing measures to achieve clinical and medicines optimisation outcomes. To assist the Lead Pharmacist in the development, communication and implementation of clinical guidelines. To assist in the monitoring of drug expenditure, supporting formulary compliance in all aspects of clinical activity. To develop, support and/or facilitate the dissemination of the findings from audits to divisions and directorates. To assist the Lead Pharmacist to ensure that all medication safety and clinical governance issues are actioned and implemented in a timely manner. Responsible for the line management of allocated Pharmacy Technicians & Pharmacy Assistants, and delivery of training in the specialty area. To undertake a pre-dispensing check & dispensing authorisation of discharge prescribing, identifying therapeutic duplication, omission or contra-indicated medication, referring to the Pharmacist as appropriate. To identify polypharmacy in inpatient & discharge prescribing, referring to the Pharmacist as appropriate. To assess inpatient prescribing against clearly pre-defined regimens, referring to the Pharmacist in line with a pre-defined clinical escalation framework and professional judgement. To carry out a pre-dispensing check and dispensing authorisation on clinic repeat-dispensing requests from dose 2 onwards, referring to the Pharmacist in line with a pre-defined clinical escalation framework and professional judgement. To carry out all routine pharmacy operational activities including, but not limited to, dispensing, final accuracy checking, medicines reconciliation, ordering and counselling. To line manage pharmacy technicians and pharmacy assistants as appropriate, in line with the relevant Trust HR policies and guidance To manage staff recruitment and selection (including chairing of interview panels), grievance and disciplinary procedures, and appraisal processes for relevant staff. To provide expert advice in the use of medicines, referring to relevant reference sources and escalating to the Pharmacist when appropriate To support the ward-based medicines management team in promoting adherence to all national, regional and local standards in medicines management practice. To promote adherence to the Trust formulary, respectfully challenging prescribing within the scope of own professional knowledge/practice and escalating to the Pharmacist as appropriate.