Medicines Management Nursing and Pharmacy Technician | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,763 - £43,466 per annum inclusive of HCAs |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 August 2025 |
| Location: | Edmonton, N18 1QX |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7267401/391-NMUH-7267401 |
Summary
To work under the direction of nurses to deliver and constantly strive to improve cancer patients medicine management services
Support the treatment area manager and Chief Pharmacy Technician - Medicine Management and Education, Training & Development in developing and maintaining the medicines management service at local level.
Work closely with the pharmacists and support them intaking the medicines reconciliation of newly admitted patients, assessment of patients own drugs, providing original pack dispensing, provision of TTO packs, managing satellite pharmacies, counselling patients about their medicines and co-ordinating the supply of discharge medicines.
Support nursing staff to ensure delivery of actions to ensure patients are not routinely discharged without time critical medicines
The successful candidate must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council and will have successfully completed a BTEC and a Level 3 NVQ in Pharmaceutical Services or the equivalent.
The successful candidate will work closely with nursing and pharmacy colleagues to ensure the provision of integrated and efficient care to hospital in-patients and day units.
To provide a patient centred approach to promoting medicines optimisation at a ward-based level. The post holder is expected to apply their knowledge and skills of clinical pharmacy to all aspects of the job role.
Support the rotation of stock to prevent out of date medication from occurring
Assists the CDU Manager and Ward Pharmacists in the implementation and monitoring of the self-administration programme for patients in designated clinical areas in line with MP15 – Self-administration Policy.
To manage the transfer or return of medicines, following patient transfer or discharge, by liaising with ward staff and/or by checking CareFlow EPR on the Trust computer systems.
To collect, collate and analyse audit data, as needed. To produce reports for all stakeholders and to present this in an understandable format. To ensure all action plans are completed and the cycle repeated to ensure effectiveness of all changes.
Support the ward with daily monitoring of fridge and room temperature checks and take the appropriate actions to ensure any adverse temperatures are rectified in a timely manner as outlined in the medicine management policy
Support the ward/unit team prevent omitted doses of critical medicine
Support ward staff with EPMA queries as required
NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link:https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
To provide Medicines Management duties to allocated wards, i.e. checking and assessing of Patients Own Drugs (on attaining the in-house accreditation programme for ward based technicians or MOP - Medicines Optimisation course); drug history taking of new patients; near patient dispensing, counselling services, ordering of in-patient and one stop medicines and annotating of drug charts (according to departmental policies) and helping manage drug recall and drug shortages. These activities will be supervised, and assessments will be carried out on performance until candidate completes in house training and competencies
See Job description for main responsibilities and detailed descriptions of main duties
This advert closes on Thursday 17 Jul 2025