Pharmacy Technician – Medicines Management/Optimisation

Manchester
1 year ago
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Finegreen are supporting a large NHS organisation in the appointment of a pharmacy technician to support the development of efficient and comprehensive Medicines Management/Optimisation programme throughout the North West locality.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide a cost-effective dispensing service, involving accuracy checking patients own drugs and assessing their suitability for use, arranging re-supplies of patients drugs, liaising with GPs, assessing patient concordance and providing counselling and education where necessary;
Liaise with GPs and other healthcare professionals to provide complete pharmaceutical care for patients;
Interpret medical notes and test results, identify pharmaceutical and clinical problems and refer to the appropriate medical staff or clinical pharmacists;
Assess patient concordance, identify patients requiring compliance aids and arrange provision of the necessary aids in both primary and secondary care;
Carry out audit projects independently and in conjunction with other pharmacy staff to improve and develop service provision and to contribute to the review of existing systems and implementation of new procedural guidelines;
Assist in the provision of financial information and analysis and the implementation of service quality and cost improvement initiatives;
Observe the recommendations contained in the Guide to Good Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Practice and its supplements and to assist in ensuring that work carried out in accordance with these and any other recommendations which may be issued from time to time by the Department of Health or Medicines Inspectorate;
Cooperate in the operation and development of computerised systems of stock control and medical speciality costing and to assist in maintaining reasonable stock levels, in accordance with the policies that are in force;
Participate in pharmacy objectives set by the National Patient Safety Agency, the Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection, the Department of Health (including the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulation Agency) and others to meet clinical governance targets, develop patient care, improve clinical outcomes and ensure compliance with all standards expected for hospital pharmacy services and interface between primary and secondary care;
Ideal Candidate:

Accredited Technical Accuracy Checking Qualification;
NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services and BTEC Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences with appropriate underpinning knowledge;
Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council;
Significant experience with the Electronic Medicines Management systems, including file maintenance, standard and ad-hoc reporting;
Demonstrate Dispensing Experience;

If you are interested in the role, please contact Donna Larder on (phone number removed) or send your CV to (url removed)

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