Senior Pharmacy Medicine Management Technician - Respiratory

Job summary

Join Our Dedicated Respiratory Team!

Are you passionate about respiratory care and looking to make a significant impact on patient outcomes? Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Senior Medicines Management Technician to join our dynamic respiratory team. This is a fantastic opportunity to work alongside a dedicated clinical pharmacy team and contribute to the care of patients with complex respiratory conditions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for medicines management on the inpatient cystic fibrosis (CF) unit.
• Provide patient-facing services, including medicines reconciliation, counselling, and support for the respiratory near-patient discharge service.
• Conduct medication adherence reviews and manage medication-related issues for patients with chronic severe asthma, COPD, cystic fibrosis, or interstitial lung disease.
• Participate in medicines management education and training, projects, and audits, ensuring the highest standards of care.
• Attend relevant specialist multi-disciplinary team meetings and collaborate closely with clinicians, specialist pharmacists, and other members of the team to deliver comprehensive patient care.

We are looking for an experienced, self-motivated medicines management technician who is dedicated to delivering patient-centred services.

If you are enthusiastic about making a difference and being part of a forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

As a registered Pharmacy Technician, you will be an integral part of both the pharmacy and respiratory teams. Your responsibilities will include providing high-quality respiratory services by:

• Supporting and developing the quality of patients' pharmaceutical care within respiratory services at NUH through a professional and effective medicines management service.
• Performing adherence reviews, taking drug histories, and providing medication counselling.
• Supporting patient flow through the hospital by promoting the use of pre-packs or on-ward dispensing.
• Assisting in the education and training of staff within respiratory and pharmacy departments.
• Playing an active role in the development, monitoring, and auditing of services.
• Implementing local improvements to deliver the Trustwide Medicines Optimisation strategy.
• Integrating into the wider Respiratory multidisciplinary team.
• Participating in departmental weekend, bank holiday, and late duty working as required. At the time of advertising, the weekend rota encompasses 2 half-day shifts every 4/5 weeks at the city campus or 1 full day shift every 4 weeks at the QMC campus. In addition, the post holder will participate in a system of flexible shifts to facilitate NUH pharmacy opening times.

Please see the full job description for further information.

About us

With over 19,000 staff,we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH