Medicine Management Technician

If you are looking for a new challenge in a supportive, enthusiastic and caring environment in a lovely part of Sheffield; Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust Pharmacy are looking to recruit well motivated, forward-thinking professionals to join our friendly team.

You will need to have excellent communication skills and enjoy working as part of a large multi-disciplinary team. You will need to be friendly, approachable, adaptable, flexible, willing to learn new skills and be committed to continuous professional development.

You will need to hold a recognised Pharmacy Technician qualification (BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences, NVQ level 3 or equivalent) and be a technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. We are recruiting Pharmacy Technicians ideally with hospital experience, but welcome applications from community technicians.

Your role as an MMT will involve delivering a medicine optimisation service to provide high quality, effective pharmacy care to service users across the mental health inpatient and community settings and you will work closely with both the wider pharmacy team and the integrated multidisciplinary ward teams to develop new ways of working to improve medicine optimisation.

We are looking to appoint highly dynamic, committed, and self-motivated pharmacy technicians who can work in a fast-paced environment with our pharmacy team and work towards becoming an Accredited Medicine Management Technician and Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician.

Become part of a vibrant team who are extremely passionate about staff engagement, culture, and improvement, where everyone has a voice and where service users and staff collaborate to have a direct impact on the things that matter most.

Our friendly department provides an environment that supports learning, team working and encourages individuals to develop in their role.

We are looking to recruit to a band 4 or 5 dependent on experience (please see job description for full details) and will indicate on interview the band relevant to the experience indicated.

The Pharmacy Department is a forward thinking and progressive department seeking to expand our current team as we develop a patient focused and modern hospital pharmacy service to the Trust while constantly looking at ways to further improve our service.

We understand the importance of great team working and have strong links with other disciplines within and around the trust. The patient is at the Centre of all that we do, and we aim to provide a pharmacy service that has medicine Optimisation as key.

We are looking to recruit full time (37.5) hours per week. We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly or part time.

SHSC has EPMA (electronic prescribing and medicines administrations) throughout the trust In-patient sites.

The following represent a broad outline of tasks the post holder will be expected to perform in achieving their key result areas. These are not intended as a fixed list of duties. The post holder will, under the direction of the Chief Pharmacist, Senior Pharmacist and Senior Technicians, perform whatever duties are reasonably necessary to achieve the job purpose and the overall safe provision of pharmacy services throughout the Trust:

The underlined are not essential for the Band 4 progressive role and training will be given once in post

• To work closely with the Senior Pharmacy Technicians, Lead Pharmacists and pharmacy team in providing a medicine management service to the wards
• To obtain accurate medicine reconciliations in a timely manner from service users/carers/care providers and identify and inform the pharmacist of any anomalies found. Document medicine reconciliation onto JAC and Insight
• To identify, assess and check suitability of patients own drugs for administration use while an inpatient and on discharge
• To highlight the need of any additional compliance aids and supply if necessary, to assist with medication compliance
• To liaise with GP’s, community pharmacies and other primary care professionals to ensure safe use of medicines and continuity of care is maintained
• To participate in discharge planning with other multidisciplinary teams ensuring medications are prescribed efficiently
• To work on various wards/areas to provide pharmacy services including, assessing, checking and re-using patient own drugs, giving advice to staff and service users, providing information on local guidelines and policies and ensuring they remain up to date
• To engage and participate in discharge planning and dispensing of prescriptions in a timely manner to ensure medicines are available for the service user to take home and provide any medication counselling if needed
• To order any medicines required for service users and ward stocks
• To organise and participate in quarterly controlled drug checks at ward level and return any unused or expired drugs back to pharmacy following the relevant SOP’s
• Assist in any relevant audits in accordance with clinical governance requirements
• Assist in training newly appointed medicine management technicians
• Participate in training of ward and development of ward staff on efficient systems of ordering, EPMA
• To regularly “top up” stocks to wards and complete regular checks
• To maintain and plan own CPD to maintain skills and knowledge required by GPHC

Other Duties

• Dispensing prescriptions e.g. inpatient, outpatient.
• To work as an accredited accuracy checking technician after obtaining the necessary competency training and qualification.
• To participate in efficient stock control and stock management systems
• To assist in the dispensary and cover for other staff members
• Participate in departmental systems of supervision and peer review
• Assist in the provision of other routine supplies to external units
• To be able to order and support the procuring of medicines
• Participate in bank holiday, late night, early morning and weekend rotas as needed
• To deliver training presentations as part of a team to department and ward staff
• To respond to queries and information requests
• Undergo further training as necessary and attend regular progress reviews
• Participate in regular supervision
• Attend all mandatory training