Job Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Luton Adults Community services for an experienced, forward thinking, registered Pharmacy Technician to join our established and respected pharmacy team working in our community settings.
We are looking for a pro-active, enthusiastic, and motivated pharmacy technician who will work closely with members of the multidisciplinary team to help deliver a high quality, patient-focused pharmacy service across the Luton Adults team.
The role will involve assessing, planning and providing medicines management interventions for patients across the community/primary care interface, in co-operation with other members of the integrated health and social care teams.
Main duties of the job
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.
About us
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- BTEC or NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Services sufficient for registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Desirable
- Completion of ‘in house’ medicines management competency programme or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of medicine management and understanding its application in community settings
- Understanding of issues involved in stock control
- Understanding of importance of monitoring quality of service
- CPD portfolio demonstrating substantive experience of competent pharmacy practice.
- Experience of direct patient care and patient medication counselling.
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and autonomous working
Desirable
- Experience of fostering compliance and concordance with medicines, including knowledge of common compliance aids
- concordance with medicines, including knowledge of common compliance aids
- Experience of working with social care providers
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Standard keyboard skills
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Able to work independently to meet agreed objectives
- Adaptable, able to respond to changing service demands in an innovative manner
- Able to work independently to meet agreed objectives
Desirable
- Experience of using SystmOne
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults
Essential
- Ability to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults
- Appreciates the significance of safeguarding and interprets this accurately for all individual children and young people/vulnerable adults whatever their life circumstances.
- Has a good understanding of the Safeguarding agenda
- Can demonstrate an ability to contribute towards a safe environment
- Can demonstrate how they have promoted ‘best practice’
- Shows a personal commitment to safeguarding children
Other
Essential
- Due to the nature of the role it is essential that applicants are able to travel independently across the locality and have access to a suitable mode of transport for business purposes. If necessary, adjustments can be considered, in accordance with the Disability Discrimination Act
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).
Closing Date: 04 November 2024
