Medicines Management Technician | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 19 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 p.a (pro rata if part time) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 July 2025 |
| Location: | Bletchley, Milton Keynes, MK3 6EN |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7279909/333-D-MK-CM-1152 |
Summary
Are you a skilled Pharmacy Technician looking for an opportunity to make a direct impact on patient care in the community?
We are seeking aSenior Band 6 Community Medicines Management Technicianto join ourHome 1st Planned Care Teamin Milton Keynes. This exciting role will involve working across multidisciplinary teams to optimize medicines management and enhance patient safety.
About the Role:
As a key member of the team, you will:
✅Provide expert guidanceon medicines management for patients with complex medication needs.
✅Supportmedicines reconciliationand antimicrobial stewardship in community and inpatient settings.
✅Collaborate with primary and secondary care professionals to enhancemedicines pathways.
✅Play a crucial role inpatient discharge planning, ensuring continuity of care.
✅Developquality improvement projectsto streamline medication-related processes.
Who We’re Looking For:
✔️Aqualified Pharmacy Technician, ideally with community or hospital experience.
✔️A professional withstrong communication and leadership skills
✔️Someone with akeen eye for governance and safety, ensuring medicines optimisation best practices.
✔️A proactive,solution-oriented team player, passionate about improving healthcare delivery.
Join Us!
This is an incredible opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping medicines management across Milton Keynes. If you’re ready to make a difference in patient care and contribute to service improvements, we’d love to hear from you!
This post supports the Milton Keynes Integrated Primary Care services by providing pharmaceutical care to patients with complex medication needs and long term Medical Conditions and supports improved medicines governance, across the community teams The post will also support the wider medicines optimisation agenda including providing training, learning from medication incidents and helping to support and implement safer medication related systems and processes
What We Offer:
A rewarding careerwhere your expertise directly improves patient safety and outcomes.
A supportive and collaborative work environmentacross integrated health services.
Opportunities for professional development, training, and career progression.
The chance to contribute topharmacy audits and innovative service development projects.
• Work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team, to provide advice to patients who are housebound/acutely unwell, carers and health care professionals with the aim of improving medicines optimisation.
• Contribute to the development of action plans and strategies to optimise medicines, and work to implement them.
• Support patients to manage medicines independently and adhere to treatment,
• Reduction of medication risks, and unnecessary repeat prescribing.
• To support and advise Home 1ststaff (including Planned, Unplanned and Social Care) around complex medication issues and compliance concerns.
• Undertake technical medication adherence reviews (including domiciliary reviews) to optimise medication use.
• Identify potential issues/ areas, which require work to achieve maximum cost or clinical effectiveness in prescribing and support teams to address these
• Advise patients on safe use and storage of medicines in the home.
• Undertake Medicines reconciliations on transfer of care to the team
• Provide clinical advice to patients / clients and carers in accordance with evidence based guidance.
• Refer patients, after triage to the GP practice for full clinical medication review when appropriate.
• Implement agreed changes to patient’s medication, ensuring that all stakeholders understand the changes.
• Prepare reports from the technical review and feedback to the relevant members of the healthcare team following interventions.
• Identify medication errors/ queries and report to the appropriate member of the healthcare team.
• Produce patient information materials/ aides such as leaflets/ posters to educate patients on various aspects of medication usage.
• Provide training and education to patients to ensure the promotion of the safe and effective use of medicines.
• Support antimicrobial stewardship in the community.
• Carry out audits, manage the implementation of agreed changes and monitor the effects to ensure benefits are maintained.
• Support systems and processes to ensure key information about medicines is communicated and implemented across the team e.g. medication alerts.
• Undertake Quality Improvement project to improve medicines optimisation within the teams
• Liaise with other CNWL Medicines Management Teams and pharmacists elsewhere to share ideas for good practice.
• Provide medicines training and support for community nursing teams
• Provide Key Performance Indicator data as required and communicate to Milton Keynes Community Health Services Pharmacy Team and service managers. Communicate key actions and findings from reviews and report back to CNWL medicines management team and the Home First Planned and Unplanned Care Services on a regular basis.
· To work independently and as part of a team to efficiently plan and deliver a robust medicines optimisation service to CNWL in-patients.
· Ensure that pharmacy technical operations (handling and storage of medicines) are undertaken in a safe, secure and efficient manner.
· Work across traditional boundaries as part of a fully integrated multidisciplinary team.
· To attend ‘white board MDT meetings’ and collaborate with ward-based staff in delivery of care to WICU inpatients
· Work as part of the WICU team on discharge planning for each in-patient.
· Support with the implementation of the Self- Administration of Medicines Policy.
· Support with the transcribing of medicines for administration for CNWL in-patients.
This advert closes on Thursday 3 Jul 2025
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