Specialist Pharmacy Technician - Hospital at Home

The post holder will work as an integral member of the Pharmacy Virtual Ward Team within South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, promoting the safe, rational, effective, and cost-effective use of medicines for patients managed within the Virtual Ward. The base working site is negotiable with the successful candidate. The role involves undertaking medicines reconciliation and making safe, appropriate clinical interventions, providing counselling and clear information to patients about their medication, and delivering pharmaceutical advice to members of the Virtual Ward multidisciplinary team with support from clinical pharmacists. The post holder will analyse and interpret pharmaceutical information, actively contribute to MDT discussions and virtual ward rounds, and provide training to MDT colleagues on the safe use of medicines and medicines optimisation to support high-quality patient care., Develop, implement, and evaluate a patient centred pharmacy service to the virtual ward by supporting the supply of medicines and providing pharmaceutical care to patients in their own homes, both remotely using technology and by visiting patients in their own home. This could include terminally ill and distressed patients.

• Contribute to ensuring patient safety in relation to medicines for patients managed in their own homes as part of the virtual ward.
• Provide advice and support to all members of the virtual ward MDT to facilitate the supply of medicines for virtual ward patients.
  
  South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:
Explore leadership within the NHS Promote Trust Values and Behaviours Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7