Medicines Management Technician - Mental Health

Job summary

At Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT), we are proud to be rated Outstanding by the CQC and recognised nationally for delivering high-quality, compassionate and innovative care.

As part of our commitment to excellence, we are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Medicines Management Technician to join our Mental Health Pharmacy Team. The post will be based at St Mary's Hospital in Kettering and is a permanent full time post.

The Medicines Management Technician will support the safe, effective, and timely use of medicines across NHFT's mental health inpatient and community services, including completing medicines reconciliation and coordinating medication supply. Working closely with pharmacists, nursing teams, and community services, the postholder will help ensure high-quality patient care through accurate medicines management and excellent multidisciplinary collaboration. You will work closely with our Clinical Pharmacy Team and be fully supported by our Lead Pharmacy Technician and senior pharmacy colleagues. Past experience in mental health is helpful but not essential to the role as full training will be provided by experienced Mental Health specialists. With an established clozapine clinic already in place and being run by our existing pharmacy technicians, this is a great opportunity for the right person to progress into clinical technician roles.

Main duties of the job

As a Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician, you will be required to work across mental health and physical health inpatient wards to support with medicines management.

This varied and rewarding role includes:

• Completing medicines reconciliation using SystmOne
• Supporting medicines supply for mental health inpatients, community hospitals, hospices and mental health community teams
• Managing stock, non-stock, discharge and leave medications
• Supporting safe disposal and management of unwanted medicines
• Providing advice to staff and counselling patients on their medicines
• Participating in and supporting our locality Clozapine clinics, including PoCHI operation and same-day medication supply
• Liaising with patients, families, nurses, pharmacists, community teams, GPs, acute hospitals and external providers
• Contributing to audits, service development, and continuous improvement activities

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Post Qualification experience in the NHS as a pharmacy technician
• Experience of liaising with other healthcare professionals

Desirable

• Ward-based Medicines Management Experince
• Experience of supplying clozapine
• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of counselling patients on multiple medicines

Qualifications and experience

Essential

• Current registration and membership with the GPhC as a Pharmacy Technician
• NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services (or course equivalent )
• Evidence of recent continual professional learning

Desirable

• Previous use of SystmOne or electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) systems

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).