Clinical Medicines Management Technician Cambridge, East of England, England
Job description
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities. To support the pharmacy medicines management service at the Cambridge Rehabilitation Unit, Brookfields Hospital. To work with other medicines management technicians and team managers to provide adequate cover for activities across these services, prioritising and directing as required to ensure that optimum service delivery is maintained. To order medicines as required for stock and individual patients on the ward in preparation for discharge using the appropriate IT systems.
To identify the need for, prepare and revise Standard Operating Procedures and other policy documentation relating to the pharmacy service to ensure working practices comply with legal and quality standards. To propose and contribute to the development and implementation of policies and procedures for the clinical medicines management services to develop the service for the benefit of pharmacy staff, ward/team staff, service users and carers. Support the implementation of changes in the policies and manage the change appropriately. Participation in medication history screening on wards, often involving problem solving, communication with patients, carers, GPs and other health professionals.
Participate in medicines management schemes on the wards including Patients Own Drugs, Self-Administration, medicines reconciliation and non-stock top ups in other areas. Undertake counselling of service users about their medicines and provide individualised information and advice about medicines to service users, carers and other health professionals e.g., medical and nursing staff. Have active involvement in discharge planning for service users ensuring a seamless medicines pathway into primary care. Participate in Trust wide medicines management initiatives.
Contribute to education and training about medicines management to nursing staff and other professionals Participate in clinical audit projects and audit of the clinical medicines management service To label/relabel medicines when required and contribute to dispensing, accuracy checking of prescriptions and patient counselling, as appropriate. Maintain good stock control on the wards in conjunction with the pharmacy support workers and the dispensary manager. To support the education and training for student pharmacy technicians and pre-registration pharmacists within the clinical medicines management service role and generally for pharmacy support workers. To contribute to the provision of the pharmacy service to other areas of the service if required.
