Job summary
NEMS have an exciting opportunity for a Qualified Medicines Management Technician to join the team!
We welcome applications from everyone. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, we encourage you to get in touch with our Recruitment Officer, Charlotte Willow (charlotte.willow@nhs.net), who can help.
Main duties of the job
The main
purpose of this role is to work as a member of the NEMS Pharmacy Team to provide safe, timely,
appropriate and high-quality pharmaceutical services for patients and staff across all NEMS sites.
The
post-holder will support the Lead Clinical Pharmacist to maintain and develop a
safe and efficient technical service in designated area, following policy and
legislation. They will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, in a mainly
non patient facing role.
This
role entails leadership responsibility to drive improvements to maximise safe, cost-effective
best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care. In addition, the post holder will be
responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the
principles of medicines optimisation throughout NEMS Clinical Teams.
About us
NEMS CBS is a high quality, high performing; not-for-profit organisation which delivers integrated urgent care and urgent primary care services to over 1 million patients. Responsive, adaptable and continually evolving, we have a reputation for delivering locally-tailored, safe, effective and cost efficient services with high levels of patient satisfaction.
We are committed to investing in our people and have an established programme of learning and development, successfully developing our own Urgent Care Practitioners and Advanced Clinical Practitioners.
NEMS currently operates 3 main services: (1) Integrated Urgent Care across Nottinghamshire serving a patient population of over 1 million, including home visiting, remote consultation and clinical assessment services; (2) Urgent Primary care provision located within the A&E Department at QMC, (3) A 24-hour walk-in urgent primary care service adjacent to Kings Mill Hospital A&E, Mansfield.
Core Benefits for NEMS Employees:
- 25 days of holiday entitlement + bank holidays (pro rata)
- NHS Pension
- Access ongoing continuous professional development
- Compassionate Leave Entitlement
- Regular clinical supervision
- Flexible working options
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Opportunity to participate in service development and improvement
- Free tea & coffee
- Access to a Blue light card
- Eye Care Vouchers
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main duties of the role
Supporting
NEMS Medicine Management team in developing and shaping teams strategy.
Sharing
of learning from medicines related incidents. Ensuring that learning has been
disseminated to all essential colleagues.
Supporting
the Lead Clinical Pharmacist in ensuring that individuals responsible for
medicines management on a daily basis are working to guidelines and as per best
practice.
Complying with the MHRA regulations, local
formulary, national and local guidance and NEMS Policy on Unlicensed Medicines
and the department SOPs relating to unlicensed medicines.
Assisting in the risk assessment of unlicensed
medicines and maintain paperwork in accordance with SOPs.
Dealing with any complaints resulting from
supply shortages, referring to Lead Clinical Pharmacist if necessary.
Ensuring
the presentation and labelling medication complies with departmental, statutory
and professional requirements.
Ensuring that stock is received, checked and
labelled (if required) in an efficient manner and reporting any issues
immediately that would delay the availability of specific products.
Informing other members of the pharmacy team
about issues regarding safe and accurate dispensing, ensuring dispensing errors
/ incidents are documented.
Assisting in the implementation, review and
update of policies and procedures of
new medicines management processes to ensure that they are safe and effective.
Documenting
and demonstrating achievements made in containing medicines expenditure through
efficient procurement and stock control and waste management
Assisting in delivering the day-to-day
management of medicines procurement within a framework of legal, professional,
and NEMS financial policies and procedures.
Please find attached to the advert the full job description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main duties of the role
Supporting
NEMS Medicine Management team in developing and shaping teams strategy.
Sharing
of learning from medicines related incidents. Ensuring that learning has been
disseminated to all essential colleagues.
Supporting
the Lead Clinical Pharmacist in ensuring that individuals responsible for
medicines management on a daily basis are working to guidelines and as per best
practice.
Complying with the MHRA regulations, local
formulary, national and local guidance and NEMS Policy on Unlicensed Medicines
and the department SOPs relating to unlicensed medicines.
Assisting in the risk assessment of unlicensed
medicines and maintain paperwork in accordance with SOPs.
Dealing with any complaints resulting from
supply shortages, referring to Lead Clinical Pharmacist if necessary.
Ensuring
the presentation and labelling medication complies with departmental, statutory
and professional requirements.
Ensuring that stock is received, checked and
labelled (if required) in an efficient manner and reporting any issues
immediately that would delay the availability of specific products.
Informing other members of the pharmacy team
about issues regarding safe and accurate dispensing, ensuring dispensing errors
/ incidents are documented.
Assisting in the implementation, review and
update of policies and procedures of
new medicines management processes to ensure that they are safe and effective.
Documenting
and demonstrating achievements made in containing medicines expenditure through
efficient procurement and stock control and waste management
Assisting in delivering the day-to-day
management of medicines procurement within a framework of legal, professional,
and NEMS financial policies and procedures.
Please find attached to the advert the full job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE Grade C or equivalent eduction, BTEC/NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Registration with GPhC.
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 3 Years post qualification experience working as a registered technician
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE Grade C or equivalent eduction, BTEC/NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Registration with GPhC.
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 3 Years post qualification experience working as a registered technician
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.
