Job summary
Are you a skilled Pharmacy Technician looking for an opportunity to make a direct impact on patient care in the community?
We are seeking a Senior Band 6 Community Medicines Management Technician to join our Home 1st Planned Care Team in Milton Keynes. This exciting role will involve working across multidisciplinary teams to optimize medicines management and enhance patient safety.
About the Role:
As a key member of the team, you will:? Provide expert guidance on medicines management for patients with complex medication needs.? Support medicines reconciliation and antimicrobial stewardship in community and inpatient settings.? Collaborate with primary and secondary care professionals to enhance medicines pathways.? Play a crucial role in patient discharge planning, ensuring continuity of care.? Develop quality improvement projects to streamline medication-related processes.
Who We're Looking For:
? A qualified Pharmacy Technician, ideally with community or hospital experience.? A professional with strong communication and leadership skills? Someone with a keen eye for governance and safety, ensuring medicines optimisation best practices.? A proactive, solution-oriented team player, passionate about improving healthcare delivery.
Join Us!
This is an incredible opportunity to play a pivotal role in shaping medicines management across Milton Keynes. If you're ready to make a difference in patient care and contribute to service improvements, we'd love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
This post supports the Milton Keynes Integrated Primary Care services by providing pharmaceutical care to patients with complex medication needs and long term Medical Conditions and supports improved medicines governance, across the community teams The post will also support the wider medicines optimisation agenda including providing training, learning from medication incidents and helping to support and implement safer medication related systems and processes
About us
What We Offer:
? A rewarding career where your expertise directly improves patient safety and outcomes.? A supportive and collaborative work environment across integrated health services.? Opportunities for professional development, training, and career progression.? The chance to contribute to pharmacy audits and innovative service development projects.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team, to provide advice to patients who are housebound/acutely unwell, carers and health care professionals with the aim of improving medicines optimisation.
- Contribute to the development of action plans and strategies to optimise medicines, and work to implement them.
- Support patients to manage medicines independently and adhere to treatment,
- Reduction of medication risks, and unnecessary repeat prescribing.
- To support and advise Home 1st staff (including Planned, Unplanned and Social Care) around complex medication issues and compliance concerns.
- Undertake technical medication adherence reviews (including domiciliary reviews) to optimise medication use.
- Identify potential issues/ areas, which require work to achieve maximum cost or clinical effectiveness in prescribing and support teams to address these
- Advise patients on safe use and storage of medicines in the home.
- Undertake Medicines reconciliations on transfer of care to the team
- Provide clinical advice to patients / clients and carers in accordance with evidence based guidance.
- Refer patients, after triage to the GP practice for full clinical medication review when appropriate.
- Implement agreed changes to patients medication, ensuring that all stakeholders understand the changes.
- Prepare reports from the technical review and feedback to the relevant members of the healthcare team following interventions.
- Identify medication errors/ queries and report to the appropriate member of the healthcare team.
- Produce patient information materials/ aides such as leaflets/ posters to educate patients on various aspects of medication usage.
- Provide training and education to patients to ensure the promotion of the safe and effective use of medicines.
- Support antimicrobial stewardship in the community.
- Carry out audits, manage the implementation of agreed changes and monitor the effects to ensure benefits are maintained.
- Support systems and processes to ensure key information about medicines is communicated and implemented across the team e.g. medication alerts.
- Undertake Quality Improvement project to improve medicines optimisation within the teams
- Liaise with other CNWL Medicines Management Teams and pharmacists elsewhere to share ideas for good practice.
- Provide medicines training and support for community nursing teams
- Provide Key Performance Indicator data as required and communicate to Milton Keynes Community Health Services Pharmacy Team and service managers. Communicate key actions and findings from reviews and report back to CNWL medicines management team and the Home First Planned and Unplanned Care Services on a regular basis.
To work independently and as part of a team to efficiently plan and deliver a robust medicines optimisation service to CNWL in-patients.
Ensure that pharmacy technical operations (handling and storage of medicines) are undertaken in a safe, secure and efficient manner.
Work across traditional boundaries as part of a fully integrated multidisciplinary team.
To attend white board MDT meetings and collaborate with ward-based staff in delivery of care to WICU inpatients
Work as part of the WICU team on discharge planning for each in-patient.
Support with the implementation of the Self- Administration of Medicines Policy.
Support with the transcribing of medicines for administration for CNWL in-patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team, to provide advice to patients who are housebound/acutely unwell, carers and health care professionals with the aim of improving medicines optimisation.
- Contribute to the development of action plans and strategies to optimise medicines, and work to implement them.
- Support patients to manage medicines independently and adhere to treatment,
- Reduction of medication risks, and unnecessary repeat prescribing.
- To support and advise Home 1st staff (including Planned, Unplanned and Social Care) around complex medication issues and compliance concerns.
- Undertake technical medication adherence reviews (including domiciliary reviews) to optimise medication use.
- Identify potential issues/ areas, which require work to achieve maximum cost or clinical effectiveness in prescribing and support teams to address these
- Advise patients on safe use and storage of medicines in the home.
- Undertake Medicines reconciliations on transfer of care to the team
- Provide clinical advice to patients / clients and carers in accordance with evidence based guidance.
- Refer patients, after triage to the GP practice for full clinical medication review when appropriate.
- Implement agreed changes to patients medication, ensuring that all stakeholders understand the changes.
- Prepare reports from the technical review and feedback to the relevant members of the healthcare team following interventions.
- Identify medication errors/ queries and report to the appropriate member of the healthcare team.
- Produce patient information materials/ aides such as leaflets/ posters to educate patients on various aspects of medication usage.
- Provide training and education to patients to ensure the promotion of the safe and effective use of medicines.
- Support antimicrobial stewardship in the community.
- Carry out audits, manage the implementation of agreed changes and monitor the effects to ensure benefits are maintained.
- Support systems and processes to ensure key information about medicines is communicated and implemented across the team e.g. medication alerts.
- Undertake Quality Improvement project to improve medicines optimisation within the teams
- Liaise with other CNWL Medicines Management Teams and pharmacists elsewhere to share ideas for good practice.
- Provide medicines training and support for community nursing teams
- Provide Key Performance Indicator data as required and communicate to Milton Keynes Community Health Services Pharmacy Team and service managers. Communicate key actions and findings from reviews and report back to CNWL medicines management team and the Home First Planned and Unplanned Care Services on a regular basis.
To work independently and as part of a team to efficiently plan and deliver a robust medicines optimisation service to CNWL in-patients.
Ensure that pharmacy technical operations (handling and storage of medicines) are undertaken in a safe, secure and efficient manner.
Work across traditional boundaries as part of a fully integrated multidisciplinary team.
To attend white board MDT meetings and collaborate with ward-based staff in delivery of care to WICU inpatients
Work as part of the WICU team on discharge planning for each in-patient.
Support with the implementation of the Self- Administration of Medicines Policy.
Support with the transcribing of medicines for administration for CNWL in-patients.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of ward based medicines management
- Experience of initiating and implementing service development and change to practice - project management skills
- Experience of medication counselling and has had regular contact with patients
- Experience of working with a wide range of other health care professionals
- Experience in conducting and reporting project and audit work
Desirable
- Previous experience of working in a secure environment
- Experience of delivering training to pharmacy staff
- Good understanding of clinical governance
Others
Essential
- Has a driver's license, access to a car and a willingness to travel to different locations to undertake role effectively
Qualifications
Essential
- BTEC/NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Registered as a practicing technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- HEE Medicines Optimisation Programme
Desirable
- Membership of APTUK Recommended for all technicians especially band 5 & above
- Consultation Skills
- Minor Ailments Training
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of ward based medicines management
- Experience of initiating and implementing service development and change to practice - project management skills
- Experience of medication counselling and has had regular contact with patients
- Experience of working with a wide range of other health care professionals
- Experience in conducting and reporting project and audit work
Desirable
- Previous experience of working in a secure environment
- Experience of delivering training to pharmacy staff
- Good understanding of clinical governance
Others
Essential
- Has a driver's license, access to a car and a willingness to travel to different locations to undertake role effectively
Qualifications
Essential
- BTEC/NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Registered as a practicing technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- HEE Medicines Optimisation Programme
Desirable
- Membership of APTUK Recommended for all technicians especially band 5 & above
- Consultation Skills
- Minor Ailments Training
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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).
