Medicines Management Assistant

Nottingham University Hospitals Pharmacy department has an exciting opportunity for a Medicines Management Assistant to join the Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) and Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) pharmacy team working in one of the UK’s largest and busiest acute teaching hospital Trusts.
This post will involve working alongside our established pharmacy team, consisting of Pharmacists, Medicines Management Technicians and Medicines Management Assistants. We are aiming to improve and enhance our comprehensive pharmacy service that we already have within the UEC directorate.
The Medicines Management Assistant is a crucial component of the UEC pharmacy team and their contributions make a huge difference to patient care and this is recognised by the entire Multidisciplinary Team within the UEC directorate. If you have a passion for improving patient care and looking for a new challenge for 2024, this could be the job for you.
To work as part of the UEC and SDEC Clinical Pharmacy Team in providing an efficient, effective and safe pharmaceutical service to patients and service users.
Manage ward and patient drug stocks ensuring adequate stock is available in the clinical area by topping up stock, processing extra requests and proactively managing stock levels
Dispense urgent inpatient and discharge prescriptions for patients within the clinical area
To assist in the management of drug supply problems in the clinical area, moving stock within the trust to ensure availability
Play an active role in managing the automated medicines storage system (currently Omnicell ® ) within the Emergency Department helping to ensure that cost-effectiveness, efficiency and safety are optimised
Play an active role in monitoring, reporting and auditing defined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) related to the ward-based medicines automation systems under the supervision of the Specialist Pharmacist responsible for the area
To assist in the delivery of training and competency assessment of Pharmacy and Clinical staff to ensure the correct usage and benefits are fully realised of the medicines automation systems
Play an active role in assisting the development, monitoring and audit of the UEC clinical pharmacy service
Implement local improvements to deliver the Trustwide Medicines Optimisation strategy
Integrate into the wider multidisciplinary team in the clinical area
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career
In addition to the below summary you need to familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification documents attached to the advert.
To contribute to the provision of the drug and fluid replenishment service to the UEC clinical areas which include the Emergency Department and SDEC.
Maintain and review drug supply issues relevant to the clinical area to ensure an effective and safe system of drug supply, through effective communication with relevant pharmacy and ward staff.
To co-ordinate and process ad-hoc and urgent stock requests ensuring that stock levels are efficiently maintained
To ensure that all ward stock is put away in the correct place, keeping the cabinets and ward stock cupboards tidy and regularly stock checked.
To maintain the medicines stock for the UEC areas, regularly completing defined audits of availability of drugs, reviewing and adjusting stock levels in liaison with the UEC pharmacists and ward managers to ensure adequate stock holdings and minimising wastage.
To facilitate the rapid transfer of patients’ medications to and from the appropriate dispensary either by air tube or on foot, for those prescriptions that cannot be supplied locally.
To collect and transfer patients’ medication between wards and departments
To facilitate the rapid supply of urgent stock controlled drugs to the ward, by transferring the order book to the controlled drug room & delivering dispensed supplies back to the ward in accordance with departmental procedures and standards
To assist the Medicines Management Technicians in collecting data to support audit and research, which includes transaction reports from the Omnicell ® and to investigate discrepancies. To monitor the local usage of drugs that are desirable/abusable and to highlight and investigate unexplained changes in usage patterns.
To be responsible for the local implementation of standards relating to medicines storage and security including:
Ambient and fridge temperature monitoring
Security of medicines storage in treatment rooms, drug trolleys, fri