Medicine Management Technician

We are looking to recruit an outstanding Pharmacy Technician with a keen interest in mental health. You will be required to dispense medications for our service users in hospital and community, train to become part of our phlebotomy team, support our Clozapine clinic by running the POCHI machine to test patients' blood cell levels, counsel service users on their medication, and visit wards to replenish medicines., Provide high-quality technical support necessary for the dispensing of prescriptions including inpatient, outpatient and discharge medications and the distribution of medicines to the designated units of SHSC under the supervision of a senior technician and pharmacist.

• Medicines Reconciliation
• Medication counselling
• Supply medicines to units within SHPU and other designed units outside of the trust.
• To undertake accuracy checking of prescriptions.
• Participate in the provision of phlebotomy services, including training in operating the POCHI machine.
• Participate in supervision and peer review.
• Delivering training trust wide
• Contribute to the out of hours rota including early morning (start at 8am), late night (finish at 6pm), weekends and bank holidays.
• To support and cover for other staff members in other areas within the department.
• To complete all mandatory training as indicated by SHPU
  
  Become part of a vibrant team who are extremely passionate about staff engagement, culture, and improvement, where everyone has a voice and where service users and staff collaborate to have a direct impact on the things that matter most.
Our friendly department provides an environment that supports learning, team working and encourages individuals to develop in their role. We are looking to recruit to a band 4 or 5 dependent on experience (please see job description for full details) and will indicate on interview the band relevant to the experience indicated. The Pharmacy Department is a forward thinking and progressive department seeking to expand our current team as we develop a patient focused and modern hospital pharmacy service to the Trust while constantly looking at ways to further improve our service. We understand the importance of great team working and have strong links with other disciplines within and around the trust. The patient is at the Centre of all that we do, and we aim to provide a pharmacy service that has medicine Optimisation as key. We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly or part time. SHPU has EPMA (electronic prescribing and medicines administrations) throughout the trust In-patient sites.