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Case Management

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join the pharmacy team working within Manchester and Trafford Local Care Organisation (LCO) as part of MFT

Case management proactively supports people at high risk of hospital admission to remain at home. The service brings together the skills and expertise of GPs, nurses, mental health practitioners, social workers, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and wellbeing advisers to provide intensive and flexible support to people who are struggling to stay healthy, safe and well.

We are looking for a General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) registered pharmacy technician with substantial experience of working within primary or secondary care. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide medicines support and positively contribute to patient care. You should be confident in the ability to work independently with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills. You will also need to be able to have access to a car for work purposes.

The successful candidates will become an integral part of the well supported and award-winning community medicines optimisation service (CMOS) providing a patient facing pharmaceutical service, working closely with the wider pharmacy teams and other services across MFT.

Responsibilities

The Pharmacy Technician is responsible for providing technical input as part of the pharmaceutical support to the Case Management Service. Domiciliary visits to patients for medicines optimisation interventions is a key feature of this role as well as multidisciplinary team (MDT) working. Other areas include:

Support the delivery of medicines optimisation to the Case Management Service

Support pharmacists to establish safe working arrangements for medicines in the Community Medicines Optimisation Service

Assist in the development and implementation of pharmaceutical care plans

Liaise with pharmacists, technicians and other health care professionals in secondary and primary care to ensure continuity of care on patient transfer.

Carry out medication reviews with patients in area of clinical competence

Identify and act on medication errors/queries within area of competence, reporting complex issues to a medicines optimisation pharmacist as appropriate.

Assist in the management of prescribing across primary care

Provide support to other CMOS workstreams as necessary.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rebecca Angell Job title: Senior pharmacist Email address:

For further details and to discuss the role please contact:

Rebecca Angell, Senior Pharmacist, CMOS


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