Medicine Optimisation Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

Come work for an outstanding specialist mental health medicine optimisation team, who are focused to empower patients in their medicines decision. We offer a clinical facing patient role across our specialist inpatient wards, community teams and clozapine clinic throughout the Devon area. This post holder will focus on delivering this service through our clozapine outpatient clinic, Exeter based wards and Exeter, East and Mid community setting as required. We offer and support outstanding opportunities to further develop your clinical skills as a pharmacy technician and share best practise outside the organisation. We encourage our team members to develop the service for a bespoke patient centred care. We offer flexible working and no weekend work/bank holiday working. Come join a dedicated and friendly team and help us achieve our next 5 year strategy.

Main duties of the job

Main duties as a DPT medicine optimisation pharmacy technician will include:

• Provide cover to the clozapine clinic
• Provide cover as required to inpatient wards
• Provide cover to community mental health teams/staff as required
• Medicines reconciliation in line with NICE guidance and local SOPs
• Manage the ordering, monitoring, storage and destruction of stock and named patient medication
• Carry out EPMA duties to reduce risk of errors by the prescriber.
• Provide regular face to face patient counselling
• Assess appropriateness of complex specialist treatment and liaise with nursing staff, pharmacy and medical staff
• Liaise with pharmacies to ensure timely and accurate supply of medication
• Regularly check electronic medication charts to inform performance indicators and ensure charts meet service standard
• Quarterly CD audits, FP10 & storage audits with the ward
• Quarterly CD, FP10 audits & storage audits with Community Mental Health Teams
• Team player within the medicines optimisation team

About us

About Devon Partnership Trust

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

Employer details

Employer name

Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Wonford House

Dryden Road

Exeter

Devon

EX2 5AF

Employer's website

https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Devon Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Wonford House

Dryden Road

Exeter

Devon

EX2 5AF

Employer's website

https://www.dpt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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