Clinical Pharmacy Technician for Community Frailty Virtual Wards

Clinical Pharmacy Technician for Community Frailty Virtual Wards

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Job Summary

Community Frailty Virtual Ward - Band 6 Pharmacy Technician

There is a 0.57 WTE position (21.5 hours per week) available. Hybrid working available, no weekends or bank holiday working and no on call.

We have some very exciting opportunities to join our Community Frailty Virtual Ward project. This project forms part of a wider plan to improve urgent and emergency healthcare delivery, across Plymouth, the South Hams, and West Devon.

We are committed to revolutionising healthcare delivery for frail and elderly patients by launching a Community Frailty Virtual Ward. Our aim is to provide high-quality, patient-centred care in the comfort of their own homes, reducing hospital admissions and length of stay in hospital and enhancing overall well-being through enhanced care coordination.

Main duties of the job

The Role

As a Clinical Pharmacy Technician, you will be a cornerstone of healthcare delivery and will play a critical role in our new multidisciplinary team, covering with the CFVW Pharmacists the six new frailty virtual wards that we have planned for our locality.

Here Is What You Will Do:

• Medicine reconciliation.
• Home visits and medicines optimisation.
• Accurate record keeping regarding medications.
• Working closely with the Community Frailty Virtual Ward Pharmacist.
• Answering medication queries raised by the multidisciplinary team and providing support to the Community Frailty Virtual Ward Team.
• Discharge facilitation.
• Work within integrated care across several multi-disciplinary teams including Mental Health, District Nursing Discharge teams, Acute GPs, and Social Workers.

We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities designed to help you grow and succeed in your role.

• Comprehensive support and opportunities to specialise as a Pharmacy Technician in frailty.
• Take the opportunity to undertake the Pharmacy Technician Clinical Diploma if not already obtained.
• Gain valuable experience and support in conducting research and the opportunity to present posters at prestigious national conferences.
• Enhance your leadership potential with tailored courses and personalised coaching.

Please note that this role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.

About Us

Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall.

As an organisation with a strong social conscience we are guided by our values: kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration.

Job Description

We are thrilled to introduce a new and influential role within our Virtual Frailty ward and our forward-thinking Pharmacy Team. As the Clinical Pharmacy Technician for the Community Frailty Virtual Ward, you will deliver a high-quality clinical pharmacy service, collaborating closely with the Pharmacists for the Community Frailty Virtual Wards.

Person Specification

Essential Personal Attributes:

• Well organised, self-motivated, proactive, methodical, resilient, and flexible.
• Open and honest and acts with integrity.
• Credible, trustworthy and able to inspire confidence in others.
• Enthusiastic about all areas of work and achieving results.
• Conscientious; able and keen to deliver best possible quality at all times.
• Able to listen and respect the opinions of others, even if different to one's own.
• Open to change and possible alternatives to doing things differently.
• Able to cope under pressure and knows when to contact senior managers.
• Able to work autonomously as well as part of a team.

Essential Experience:

• Experience of working across different sectors or specialties.
• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.
• Able to communicate effectively with the MDT and cooperate with all healthcare professionals.
• Experience of giving training and supervision.
• Experience of completing medicines reconciliations in different settings.

Essential Qualifications:

• BTEC / NVQ level 3 or equivalent in pharmaceutical sciences.
• Member of GPhC as a registered Pharmacy Technician.
• Evidence of commitment to and able to demonstrate recent and ongoing CPD.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name: Livewell Southwest

Address: 200 Mount Gould Road, Mount Gould, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 7PY

Employer's website: Livewell Southwest