Bank Pharmacy Technician Band 5

The post holder will:

Have experience of working in a hospital pharmacy post qualification.

Provide a high quality patient focused medicine optimisation service, helping to provide a flexible and responsive service to patient needs.

Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to deliver patient focused care to patients and ensure a timely supply of medicines, utilisation of patients' own medicines and counselling on medication.

Participate in medicines management, ward top-up dispensary and ward-based dispensing.

About us

Medicines Optimisation Service Provision

1.1 To be responsible for the provision of a high quality patient focused medicinesoptimisation service to patients of the Trust, associated hospitals andcommunity clinics.

1.2 To facilitate the provision of medicines to patients to assist in their timelydischarge.

1.3 To carry out audit and project work.

1.4 To check patients' own medicines for suitability of reuse and highlight anyshortfalls or queries with the patients prescribed/ not prescribed medicationsto the ward pharmacist.

1.5 To be responsible for gaining medication histories e.g. telephoning GPs whenappropriate.

1.6 To support the dispensary in the timely dispensing of discharge medication.

1.9 To counsel patients as identified according to procedures and ensure that alldischarge medicines are current.

1.11 To assist in the training of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and nurses inthe one-stop dispensing and self-administration system.

The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) takes great pride in providing safe, compassionate, high-quality care to all our patients. We are equally passionate about making the RNOH a great place to work for all our staff. As part of our ambition to continuously improve the Trust for our staff, our patients and the communities we serve, we created a set of values that define how we will act with each other and our patients.

Our values are extremely important to the way we work together and we expect everyone at the RNOH, including team members, bank and agency staff, contractors, visitors on honorary contracts, students and volunteers to share and uphold these values. Each value is underpinned by behavioural standards and all staff are expected to role model these behaviours at all times.