Care Home Pharmacy Technician

3 weeks ago

Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and patient-centred Pharmacy Technician to join our forward-thinking and friendly care home pharmacy team.

The Care Home Pharmacy team support residents in both nursing and residential care setting across Hertfordshire and West Essex, providing pharmacy support, and ensuring safe medicines management practice is followed whilst supporting staff to improve and embed the safe use of medicines. The Pharmacy team collaborate with system partners to provide pharmacy input and medicines management assurance, working collaboratively to identify risk, improve the safe use of medicine, reduce harm, and improve patient outcomes.

The post maintains close links with community pharmacy, PCN pharmacy teams, the local authority, the safeguarding team and ICB Nursing and Quality team.

In addition to having lots of enthusiasm, applicants should ideally have some experience or knowledge in a primary or secondary care setting although experience in care homes is not essential.

The post holder will work in social care settings alongside pharmacists and other pharmacy technicians reviewing care home medication systems and processes whilst supporting the implementation of recommendations with NICE guidance for managing Medicines in Care homes.

Accurately recording and reporting findings and outcome data as required to support quality improvement initiatives.

Provide educational and training around safe and appropriate ordering, storage, administration, and waste reduction of medicines within a care home environment.

The role will combine a mixture of field-based care home work, office-based working and independent work from home. Travel will be required between settings. This post will be based in West Essex place. Frequent travel across West Essex is expected and travel across Hertfordshire may occasionally be required.

About us

The Pharmacy Care Home Team offers a highly valued service, regarded by staff working within care homes as well as our primary care system partners.

Being supported by a network of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, this post is an ideal opportunity for pharmacy technicians who might have some experience or knowledge of primary care and is interested in a fulfilling post working in a role to support social care settings.

NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) is the local NHS organisation that plans and oversees how NHS money is spent and makes sure health services work well and are of high quality.

The ICB’s role is to join up health and care services, improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities for the 1.5 million people who live in Hertfordshire and West Essex.

It’s an exciting time for us and we’re looking for people who enjoy working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment that can help us achieve our aim.

So if you share our passion for people and want to make a positive change to their health and health services then we want to hear from you.

Hertfordshire and West Essex ICB has three office sites based in Hemel Hempstead, Harlow and Welwyn Garden City. With the option for staff to work at any of these sites. If you have any queries or would like to discuss this further please do contact the appointing manager.

For further information on this role please see the job description and person specification attached.

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