Medicines Management Technician

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit a ward-based Pharmacy Medicines Management Technician (MMT) working within Sherwood Forest Hospitals based at our Newark Hospital Site.

Within Pharmacy at Sherwood Forest Hospitals we can offer successful candidates:

• Robust training plan during induction with full support from the department's education and training team.
• Career progression opportunities including leadership development, opportunity to sign up for Trust training courses relevant to job role, coaching and mentoring skills, quality improvement.
• Enhanced patient counselling training including anticoagulant counselling.
• Exposure to helping Senior Technicians with the recruitment process.
• Access to department and Trust wellbeing champions and resources.
• Opportunity to attend annual Pharmacy Congress.
• Attendance at departments monthly medicines management technician forum, encouraging sharing of learning and ideas.

Youmust:

• Be a Registered Pharmacy Technician with the GPhC or completing a relevant course with a view to being on the GPhC register by May 2025.
• Hold BTEC/NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences (or equivalent) or working toward this qualification.
• Have experience working as a qualified Pharmacy Technician or supervised experience working as a Pre registration Pharmacy Technician.

Main duties of the job

Our ward-based clinical services are extremely well developed, and we expect our MMTs to assist our clinical pharmacists in ensuring the optimal use of medicines for our patients.

Ward-based MMT duties include:

• Assessing patient's own medicines.
• Electronic ordering of medicines.
• Confirming medication histories with patients.
• Counselling patients about new medicines.
• Liaising with clinical pharmacists, multidisciplinary team (MDT) members, and primary care colleagues.
• Assisting ward staff in the safe use of medicines.
• Ward controlled drug checks and returns.

There will also be an opportunity to cover dispensary-based tasks which will include, labelling and dispensing prescriptions including controlled drugs, final accuracy checking of dispensed medicines, and counselling out-patients on the use of their medicines.

About us

Thank you for your interest in this role.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here, and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall, we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients; we also care for you.

Our culture of learning, compassion and taking a person-centred approach are at the roots of our organisation. We would love you to join us.