Rotational Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician
| Posting date: | 09 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £29,970.00 to £36,483.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £29970.00 - £36483.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 July 2025 |
| Location: | Stafford, ST16 3AG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9301-25-0867 |
Summary
JOB PURPOSE To work as part of the pharmacy team at MPFT to ensure the safe, effective and economical use of medicines. To work with clinical pharmacists, the dispensary manager and other medicines management pharmacy technicians and pharmacy support workers in providing and developing a comprehensive medicines optimisation service to the wards and clinics. Lead the provision and coordination of the Trust Pharmacy led Medicines Reconciliation service in designated areas to ensure the successful implementation of Trust Policy for Medicines Reconciliation. The aim of the Pharmacy Team will be to facilitate the Trust achieving the NICE/ NPSA target of 90% newly admitted patients having their medicines reconciled within 24 hours. To provides counselling to patients/and carers as needed. To participate in discharge planning to ensure the timely dispensing of discharge medication for patients on the medicines management wards undertaking the final check of patients own drugs before discharge. Work to promote safe, legal, rational and economic use of medicines by all users of the pharmacy service. To support the implementation and delivery of current and future digital based innovations in pharmacy practice. To assess patients own drugs for use on the wards and document the supplies available on patients drug charts. Identifying charts that have not yet been clinically screened by a pharmacist.