Lead Pharmacy Technician - Allergy Services

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Dedicated named pharmacy individual to support the Allergy service management of prescriptions in pharmacy (to include unlicensed medicines, home self-administration prescriptions) to ensure that allergy medicines are available and dispensed in preparation for day-case clinics and outpatients.
2. Responsible for ensuring medicines are procured and purchased for service in a timely manner.
3. To work with senior pharmacists to support introduction of new medicines into the Trust
4. To collate prescription issue data from primary and secondary care resources to assess patients medicine adherence to their treatments, and support MDT decisions with drug adherence related problems.
5. To help collect information about previous drug exposure of patients with early or delayed drug hypersensitivities and also about tolerated drugs from prescribing systems, such as SystmOne.
6. To liaise with primary care regarding shared care agreements for allergy medicines
7. To provide training to pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and the wider team to ensure accurate documentation of drug allergies on admission to hospital according to the recommended coding framework.
8. To support day case drug challenge clinics, by overseeing preparation and dilution of drugs
9. To support production of documentation e.g. SOPs, prescriptions, dilution guides for the service,
10. To support the development of patient information leaflets, increasing health literacy of patients with drug hypersensitivities by providing age-appropriate and culturally appropriate information..
11. To work on pharmacy based audit/QI projects to maintain IQAS accreditation
12. To work with allergy nurses to ensure CD controls are legal and aligned to Trust guidance
13. To liaise with community services re drug supplies including community pharmacy colleagues
14. Contribute to the Pharmacy Department Senior Technician Operational rota, providing support to our three hospital sites

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential

• Registration as a qualified Pharmacy Technician GPhC

Desirable

• Project management experience
• Management qualification or equivalent

Experience

Essential

• Post qualification experience including ward based MMT role
• Evidence successful team leadership
• Evidence of building relationships with teams and colleagues
• Experience training and development role

Desirable

• Evidence of working or development within the allergy specialism

Communication

Essential

• High level of verbal and written communication skills

Analytical and Judgement

Essential

• Evidence of service evaluation and improvement

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

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

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Address

Glenfield Hospital

Groby Road

Leicester

LE3 9QP

Employer's website

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