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Salary We are seeking to recruit enthusiastic and patient-focused Pharmacy Technician with good communication and team working skills to work as an inpatient Pharmacy Technician at Sussex Partnership NHS FT.
The role will include medicines optimisation on the wards at Meadowfield Hospital, Forget me not unit, Selden centre and Shepherd House in Worthing, West Sussex.
Please see the Job description for more details.
To lead and develop the pharmacy service in relation to technical services to the mental health Units/ wards of the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust within the locality. To ensure that the service provided is safe, efficient and effective.
To lead the technical developments of medicines management to the units/ wards within this locality.
To act as the operational lead for all technical services provided to inpatient units of the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
To organise, lead, develop and participate in the provision of patient medication education to service users, and on occasion carers, under the specialities encompassed by this diverse service, delegating this role where appropriate.
To act as a role model for provision of pharmacy services to mental health to other Pharmacy Technicians and assistants within the team
Our region offers fantastic quality of life opportunities with good transport links to other UK regions. It includes some of Britain’s most beautiful scenery and coastline, national parks and ancient heritage sites.. To find out more about our beautiful region, please visit the websites Visit South East England and Stay in Sussex.
Flexible Working: We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, home-working, part time hours, flexible start/finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
This is an exciting opportunity for Pharmacy Technicians to have a role in direct patient care with opportunities to develop your knowledge and clinical skills.
We welcome application from Pharmacy Technician colleagues with experience in mental health. A comprehensive programme of training and clinical supervision will be provided and including access to the CMHP courses - Psych 1 & 2.
We take pride in developing our Pharmacy Technicians through formal and informal study, clinical supervision and training.
We provide pharmacy and medicines optimisation services to the inpatient wards and our Pharmacy staff are highly regarded as valued members of the multi-disciplinary team.
