Specialist Cancer Pharmacy Technician

Job description Job responsibilities Ward and Day Treatment Unit based role 1. To be part of the Pharmacy team providing a near-patient medicines management service to clinical areas. 2. To become an accredited Medicines Management Technician, or complete reaccreditation in order to transfer skills where appropriate. 3. To become accredited to assess PODs according to the Trusts criteria. 4. To implement and maintain the POD scheme according to Trust policies. 5. To train nursing, medical and pharmacy staff regarding the POD scheme. 6. To become accredited to initiate the supply of non-stock items for one-stop/full pack dispensing. 7. To become accredited to complete medicines reconciliation using a variety of available sources. 8. To aid discharge planning in conjunction with the clinical pharmacist and ward staff. 9. To work with the clinical pharmacist and ward staff to support medicines management at ward level. 10. To become accredited to undertake patient counselling on selected patients e.g. warfarin initiation, inhaler counselling