Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

The Pharmacy Department at Frimley Health Foundation Trust is a forward thinking and progressive department seeking to expand our current team to provide a patient focused, modern hospital pharmacy service to our Trust. We are looking to recruit a medicines management technician with great initiative and motivation to join our pharmacy team, to help develop our medicines optimisation service. The successful applicant will need to be committed to self- development and have a strong attention to detail, with excellent practice and organisational skills. We are looking for a Pharmacy Technician with the ability to cope under pressure, have strong attention to detail and be a dedicated team member.

You will need: To be a registered Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will be part of the Medicines Management Team (MMT) based at Frimley Park Hospital (FPH).
• To assist the Pharmacists in ensuring that the patients' pharmaceutical care needs are met at ward level. This includes medicines reconciliation, one stop and inpatient medication supply orders, non-stock supply, patient own drug (POD) checks to assess suitability for re-use of patients' own drugs and further supply, discharge planning, patient counselling and provision of compliance aids.
• Assist ward staff in ensuring appropriate stock management, including in Omnicell automated storage cabinets.
• To undertake duties of a technical nature in all aspects of the pharmaceutical service in a manner which ensures a quality of service to patients and to help achieve the goals of the NICE Guidelines on Medicines Optimisation (NG05).
• To partake in dispensary-based pharmacy service, inclusive of accuracy checking, for all types of prescriptions and inpatient orders presented to the Pharmacy for wards & department's post clinical validation at the base hospital and all community units served by the Pharmacy in accordance with departmental and Trust policies

Please see job description for full details of roles and responsibilities.

About us

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviors that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Frimley Park Hospital

Portsmouth Road

Frimley

GU16 7UJ

Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Frimley Park Hospital

Portsmouth Road

Frimley

GU16 7UJ

Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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