Address The post holder will contribute to the work of the Pharmacy Service by joining the Medicines Management Team and delivering the departments vision of an excellent Medicines Optimisation service. They will become an effective and proactive member of the team; ensuring clients receive the highest standard of care. They will provide advice, support and leadership on Medicines Management to the staff on all wards in the Trust.
They will take part in all aspects of medicines management including medicines reconciliation, dispensing and patient counselling in conjunction with the Pharmacy team.
The post holder will be expected to support the training of new staff working within clinical teams. They will also manage the work of clinical ATOs, Band 4 technicians, trainee pharmacists, preregistration technicians on the wards and with any clinical work they are carrying out in the dispensary or on the wards.
The post holder will become a key member of the team working towards and ensuring all staff involved in Medicines Optimisation are doing so whilst working within the guidelines of the trust medicines policy.
To provide a medicines management service to a range of specialty ward across the hospital site
To work as part of the near patient dispensing team supplying medication to patients both during their stay and at point of discharge
To liaise with all ward staff and other healthcare professionals regarding discrepancies with patients medication to improve patient care
To provide advise to patients regarding their medication
To act as a role model and help train new and junior members of staff
To participate in the Accredited checking technician dispensary role or be willing to undertake the qualification
To contribute to the economic effective and efficient supply of medication to all wards
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
This job description is intended to provide an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities. There may be other duties required of the post-holder commensurate with the position. This description will be open to regular review and may be amended to consider developments within the PCN or Whittington Health trust.
For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
