Pharmacy Technician Quality and Safety Specialist

1 day ago


Basildon, Essex, United Kingdom NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board Full time
Job Title: Pharmacy Technician Quality and Safety Specialist

We are seeking an experienced and dedicated registered Pharmacy Technician to join our dynamic Medicines Optimisation team at the NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board.

About the Role

The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering medicines optimisation to ensure cost-effective, safe medicines use, enabling the best possible health gains for patients. This will be achieved through supporting clinical governance and medicines safety in health and social care.

Key Responsibilities
  • Responsible for decisions made during the course of duties, seeking guidance and escalating issues where appropriate
  • Assist with the delivery of project plans and workstreams, as directed by line manager and raising any issues with delivery to line manager.
  • Responsible for monitoring budget/s, contributing to budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
  • Provide technical support to implementation and delivery of one or more strategic plans, enabling key milestones to be delivered and raising any issues associated with the delivery of plans and workstreams.
  • Provide technical support for medicines governance to maintain medicines safety and quality.
  • Provide technical support with the delivery of the medicines governance agenda
  • Provide technical support to the system where medicines related CQC standards are not met.
  • Provide technical support to monitoring prescribing of all prescribers, including non-medical prescribers.
  • Responsible for monitoring actions from local national and regional safety alerts in line with ICB process.
  • Provide technical support in monitoring high risk drugs, antimicrobial stewardship and dependence-forming medication.
  • Maintain and utilise Eclipse risk stratification tool to inform medicines governance and medicines safety strategies.
  • Utilise and support the use of prescribing support tools Scriptswitch, in relation to preventing prescribing-related harm
  • Provide technical support to Mid and South Essex quality team with investigating medicines safety incidents and implement best practice.
  • Provide technical support to the review and maintenance of safe access to medicines, repeat dispensing, electronic prescriptions, Patient Group Directions
  • Provide technical support for controlled drugs advice and monitoring, including controlled drugs destruction.
  • Provide technical support for medicines-related queries and complaints.
Person Specification

Knowledge / understanding

Essential

  • An understanding of business acumen in their area of responsibility ensuring value for money and the driving factors for delivery in multiple sectors.
  • Understanding of practices within required field of work.
  • Understanding of current issues impacting on the NHS

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of provision of pharmaceutical services in primary or secondary care.
  • Experience of managing incoming and outgoing information requirements, handling correspondence/queries which may be complex, sensitive or highly confidential.
  • Experience of updating and developing policies/ practices/systems within own area of work and/or the wider organisation.

Skills

Essential

  • Good communications skills using a range of methods written and verbal.
  • High level of attention to detail.
  • Ability to manage own workload, working to deadlines with minimal supervision.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree or equivalent Pharmacy Technician qualification.
  • Management qualification or equivalent level of on-the-job experience.
  • Evidence of continuing personal development.
  • Professional Registration (GPhC)

Partnership Working / Leadership Management

Essential

  • Champions the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion throughout their work within the organisation.
  • Takes personal responsibility for actions and their impact.
  • Ability to work in a collaborative way across organisational/sector boundaries in order to achieve the highest quality outcomes for patients.


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