Medicines Management Assistant

3 weeks ago


StokeonTrent, United Kingdom University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our clinical medicines management team to support and assist the supply of medication to all wards and departments.

The role will be a fixed term contract/secondment opportunity for 12 months.

The Medicines Management Assistant will be working at ward level carrying out medicines management duties such as assessing patients own medication for use, transferring medicines between wards when patients relocate, facilitating patient discharge and ordering patient specific medicines in order to reduce missed doses.

You must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, be well organised, have the ability to work both independently and as part of a team, be able to adapt to changing demands, be able to work accurately and under pressure and be committed to providing a high quality patient focused service.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

The Medicines Management assistant role will support the pharmacy ward teams with the principles and implementation of medicines optimisation
- Aim to understand the patients experience
- Evidence based choice of medicines
- Ensure medicines use is as safe as possible
- Make medicines optimisation part of routine practice
- To deliver a service which is patient centred

Full competency training will be provided to support your development.

For more information on working for the Trust, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

For more details on the post, please contact Emma Shaw (see contact details)



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