Pharmacy Technician

Job description Job responsibilities Job Summary To work with the senior technicians in the locality to provide a technical pharmacy service to the Inpatient and Outpatient areas across the locality including checking patients own medication on admission. Maintain competencies by undertaking both in-house and nationally recognised validations as appropriate. Maintain competencies for dispensing of medications. To ensure patient information leaflets are available on allocated units and in identified areas and keep all pharmacy information up to date. To ensure stocks of medicines are available on all allocated wards and departments through the named patient and stock top up service. Working to standard operating procedures (SOPs) provide pharmacy service to allocated units/ wards.Key Result Areas Check patients own medication on admission in line with departmental procedures. Participate in the medication supply and topping-up service at ward/team base level, to allocated units, to ensure adequate stocks are maintained for patient care. To assess their suitability of medicines, and record findings using the pharmacy prescribing system. Identify any discrepancies and liaise with the appropriate healthcare professional. Participate in patient counselling regarding medicines as appropriate. Ensure the appropriate receipt, processing, storage and stock control of medicines and other supplies. Reporting via medicines assurance process. Respond to enquiries and requests from staff, patients, and carers, in accordance with individual competence and departmental policy. Assist the technician managers, in the development and monitoring of SOPs. Assist in the distribution of information and polices to all wards, and departments as necessary. Participate in pharmacy related audits as appropriate. Participate in the supply of Clozapine to a specific group of patients ensuring compliance with the SOPs (e.g. blood tests have been taken, results obtained, valid prescriptions received, and medication dispensed and collected in a timely manner). Perform stock take both within the dispensary and at ward/ department level. Liaise with nursing staff concerning the use of medicines and to advise on the safe and secure storage of medicines at ward level. Comply with the Trust's Medicine Code. To ensure errors/mistakes are reported via the trusts incident reporting system. Use of pharmacy and other computer systems in the course of performing these duties. To answer telephone and face to face queries of a routine or technical nature from a wide range of staff groups, patients, and carers and refer appropriate queries to the relevant members of the pharmacy team. For full job description, please see attached supporting documents. We are aware that an increasing number of applicants are using AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. Over reliance on AI-generated content in application forms is strongly discouraged and we will conduct a thorough screening process before selecting candidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance your application, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.