CMHT Medicine Management Pharmacy Technician

Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Chesterfield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

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Job summary

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly, established and respected community mental health team (CMHT) in North Derbyshire, in leading and developing the pharmacy service provided to mental health services in Derbyshire.

The role will be based at Hartington Unit, Chesterfield. Travel between multiple DHCFT sites will be an essential part of this role.

We provide all our pharmacy staff with opportunities for career development, including CMHP Psych 1 and 2 courses, distance learning postgraduate certificate in Mental health Therapeutics through Aston University, JUCD leadership courses.

This role would be ideally suited to an experienced Mental Health Pharmacy technician looking for progression in their career or looking to relocate.

If this sounds like the role for you, then please get in touch to discuss!

Main duties of the job

The roles and duties of this post will include:

• Developing close working relationships with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and contributing to the safe administration of medicines in the community.
• Ensuring the transfer of patients' discharge information from inpatient wards to CMHTs is seamless.
• Responding to medication-related queries, providing advice on medicine availability/shortages, safe storage of medicines, defect products, clozapine blood tests.
• Providing medicines information to support patients and carers to optimise treatment outcomes.
• Educating colleagues about medicines management and medicines optimisation.
• Auditing depot card prescriptions and presenting audit results at the quarterly medicine management operational meeting.
• Supporting Clozapine patients within CMHTs.
• Weekly session working within the dispensary at Kingsway.

About us

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how our colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" and "felt positive and proud about working for the trust."

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities

Job responsibilities

Ensuring transfer of patient discharge medicine information from inpatient wards to CMHTs is seamless. Accurately check discharge prescriptions on SystmOne.

Red drugs prescribed and patients not signed up for TCAM are followed up as first priority.

Ensure transfer of patients' medicines from Community to Inpatient wards is seamless with the ward MMTs.

Checking of Depot administration using SystmOne data reports.

Building relationships and working in collaboration with ICB/Practice technicians and pharmacists.

Supporting primary care colleagues with mental health training needs.

Effectively counselling identified patients on the safe and effective use of Clozapine and Lithium medication.

Quality improvement initiatives and baseline reporting for pharmacy intervention into community patients.

Support the roll-out of Community Clozapine patient Initiation.

Accurately record all patient histories electronically.

Supervise support workers and provide regular training to support pre-registration pharmacy technicians and new/inexperienced pharmacists or technicians.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• GPhC registration

Knowledge / Experience

• Hospital pharmacy experience
• Good written communication skills
• Experience of working in mental health
• Experience of training others

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.