Senior Pharmacy Technician - Home Treatment Team

We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician to join our innovative Home Treatment Teams (HTTs). This exciting role provides specialist medicines management support for people experiencing acute mental health crises who are receiving treatment in the community. Working as an embedded member of multidisciplinary teams across two HTTs, you will play an important role in improving patient outcomes through medicines reconciliation, medicines optimisation, supporting medication adherence, physical health monitoring, and promoting the safe and effective use of medicines. Working closely with pharmacists, prescribers and other healthcare professionals, you will help ensure high-quality, patient-centred pharmaceutical care is delivered across community mental health services., The Pharmacy Technician supports the HTT Pharmacist and the wider HTT in the day-to-day operational management of medicines, including stock control, safe storage and disposal, and support for medicines reconciliation and training activity. The post holder will help ensure HTT medicines processes are compliant with Trust policies and procedures. The successful candidate will be an organised, flexible individual with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. The role will require this person to:

• Deliver a clinical pharmacy medicines optimisation service to allocated HTTs
• Complete medicines reconciliation for allocated HTTs
• Provide medicines related information and responding to enquiries within scope of role and competence from HTTs
• Work collaboratively towards the goals and objectives of the HTTs and Pharmacy services
  
  Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers. Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.