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Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

2mo ago

  • Job
    Full-time
    Junior & Mid Level
  • Customer Relations
    Healthcare

AI generated summary

  • You must be a registered Pharmacy Technician with relevant experience, able to work autonomously, communicate effectively, manage medicines, handle sensitive issues, and travel across Luton.
  • You will manage patient medications in homes, optimize outcomes, communicate effectively, promote best practices, and handle sensitive issues while traveling across Luton.

Requirements

  • - Registered Pharmacy Technician
  • - Experience in a relevant field
  • - Pro-active, enthusiastic, and motivated
  • - Ability to work closely with members of the multidisciplinary team
  • - Capability to assess, plan, and provide medicines management interventions for patients
  • - Ability to communicate clear and accurate medicine related information, both verbal and written
  • - Promotion of effective medicines management
  • - Significant autonomy and decision making supported by policies and procedures
  • - Ability to handle sensitive and potentially difficult patient issues
  • - Ability to work alone
  • - Willingness to travel across Luton

Responsibilities

  • Provide innovative medicines management services to patients in their own home as part of a crisis response and also planned pro-active interventions. Working closely with other health and social care professionals involved in the patient’s re-enablement.
  • The aim is to improve patient outcomes by optimising the use of medicines by patients in the community. This will improve patient care by ensuring that the right patients get the right choice of medicine at the right time. By focusing on patients and their experiences the goal is to help patients to; improve their outcomes; take their medicines correctly; avoid taking unnecessary medicines; reduce waste of medicines and improve medicines safely. Ultimately medicines optimisation can help encourage patients to take ownership of their treatment.
  • Communicate clear and accurate medicine related information, both verbal and written to patients/carers and other health professionals.
  • The post-holder will promote effective medicines management, escalating poor practice and sharing best practice in the domiciliary setting.
  • The responsibilities of this post require significant autonomy and decision making supported by policies and procedures. The post does not include dispensing of medication.
  • There is also a requirement to be able to handle sensitive and potentially difficult patient issues and lone working as well as travel across Luton.

FAQs

What are the primary responsibilities of the Pharmacy Technician in this role?

The primary responsibilities include assessing, planning, and providing medicines management interventions for patients, promoting effective medicines management, and communicating medicine-related information to patients, carers, and other health professionals.

Is the Pharmacy Technician role based in a clinic or a community setting?

The role is based in community settings, specifically working within the Luton Adults Community services.

Does this position require the dispensing of medication?

No, the post does not include the dispensing of medication.

What is the goal of the medicines optimisation approach in this role?

The goal is to improve patient outcomes by ensuring that the right patients receive the appropriate medicine, ultimately helping patients to take ownership of their treatment and improving their overall care.

Is there an opportunity for training and development in this role?

Yes, the organization prioritizes staff engagement and development, providing opportunities for training and growth.

What personal qualities are desired in candidates for this position?

We are looking for a pro-active, enthusiastic, and motivated pharmacy technician who can work closely with multidisciplinary teams.

How does the role involve interacting with patients?

The Pharmacy Technician will handle sensitive patient issues, provide innovative intervention services, and communicate clear and accurate medicine-related information to patients and their carers.

What is the work environment like for this position?

The work involves significant autonomy, decision-making, and requires travel across Luton, with potential lone working.

Who can I contact for more information about the job?

For further details or to arrange an informal visit, you can contact Susan Jermy, Lead Pharmacy Technician, at susan.jermy@nhs.net.

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Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust

Providing health and care services across Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Luton, Norfolk, Peterborough and Suffolk.

Science & Healthcare
Industry
1001-5000
Employees

Mission & Purpose

Cambridgeshire Community Services aims to deliver high quality care to the diverse communities we serve in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, Norfolk, Peterborough and Suffolk. We provide the following services: • A range of children’s services to children, young people and families in (Cambridgeshire and Norfolk) • School age immunisation programme (Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Peterborough and Suffolk) • ICaSH: Integrated Contraception and Sexual Health Services (Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Peterborough and Suffolk) • Dental services (Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and Suffolk) • Musculo-skeletal services and uro-gynaecological physiotherapy services (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough) • The Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation and the Evelyn Community Head Injury Service • Children and Adults’ Community Health services for the residents of Luton • Children and Adults’ Community Health services for the residents of Bedfordshire are provided in partnership with East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT). We believe that community based health services are fundamental to the success of an NHS that gives people more choice and control over their health care.