Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician-Band 5-6 progression

This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week) for a pharmacy technician to play an integral part of the clinical pharmacy service to the pre-assessment department. An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the pharmacy and pre-assessment teams at the RNOH.
We are seeking a self-motivated, innovative and enthusiastic individual who will be working alongside the Principal Pharmacist and Specialist Pharmacist in Pre-assessment. There is huge scope for the successful applicant to develop on both a personal and professional level through exposure to all departmental activities in this newly created post.
Key responsibilities include:
+ To provide a safe and effective specialist clinical pharmacy service to the pre-assessment clinic (PAC)
+ Assess and prioritise pharmaceutical requirements for patients reviewed prior to their surgical procedures
+ To manage own case load and provide expert advice on medicines when appropriate
+ Support the development and evaluation of pharmacy services to the PAC
+ Contribute to education and training of nursing, medical and pharmacy staff in specialist area
+ Act as a role model to junior technician staff, Working closely with the pharmacy and PAC multidisciplinary teams, you will:
+ Contribute to the provision of a high quality patient focused medicines optimisation service to patients of the Trust.
+ Support pharmacists in service provision and extending the role of a pharmacy technician in PAC
+ Help audit the service against set standards and assist in the review of service provision
+ Ensure safe use of patients' own medicines to optimise cost efficiency
+ Provide specialist pharmacy technical input into EPMA & POA digital systems, contributing towards both operational and strategic development
+ Carry out medicine histories, advice on medications to be stopped or continued for surgery and escalate for review to pharmacists, Please refer to the attached Job Description for further details of duties and responsibilities.
Key relationships include:
+ Pharmacy team
+ Clinical & administrative staff involved with Pre-assessment Clinic
+ ICS and primary care representatives
+ All healthcare professionals' especially medical and nursing staff
+ Patients and their carers
+ EPMA, EPR and Digital Transformation teams
+ Other NHS organisations
+ External customers
+ Research partners at other national and international organisations, The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
RNOH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of RNOH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3^rd party recruitment providers - North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust.
The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust is the largest orthopaedic hospital in the UK and a global leader in our field. We provide a dynamic working environment where we support frontline staff to implement improvements so that we can realise our vision of being a world leading neuro musculoskeletal hospital providing the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS, delivering world leading research, and offering a strong foundation of education, training and career progression. Our dedicated staff come from diverse backgrounds, and our patients benefit from the wide range of experience they bring to the Trust. The RNOH brings unrivalled expertise together in one place allowing us to deliver some of the world's most complex and innovative care to our patients
+ Rated Good by the CQC
+ Two sites, one in central London and one in Stanmore - which has recently opened The Stanmore Building, a new, state-of-the-art inpatient facility
+ Our Research and Innovation Centre works closely with our main academic partner, University College London
+ Recognised as a centre of excellence, leading on national initiatives, such as the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) Programme
+ Further major redevelopment underway across the Stanmore site - improving and modernising our facilities to maintain our position as the UK's leading centre for orthopaedic medicine
+ In the NHS staff survey, over 90% of our staff were satisfied with the quality of care they are able to give to patients - the best result of any NHS Trust in the country
+ Our staff also indicated that they had the best experience of appraisals as compared to all other NHS Trusts.
This is a great time to join us and play a critical role in the next stage of RNOH's journey to achieving an outstanding CQC rating.
Our aim is to remain a world-leading orthopaedic hospital with the best patient care and staff experience in the NHS. To do this, we have four core values that underpin everything that we do. We use our values to help ensure that we are always focused on the things that our staff and patients believe are most important:
+ Patients first, always
+ Excellence, in all we do
+ Trust, honesty and respect, for each other
+ Equality, for all
Our annual staff survey results have been improving year on year, with our staff telling us that their experience of working at the Trust is getting better and better. They also indicate that our staff feel very loyal to the RNOH and committed to its role in providing the very best care to our complex patient group. We hope that we can welcome you to our growing team soon., The RNOH is a national centre of excellence with an international reputation for diagnosis, assessment and treatment of neuro-musculoskeletal conditions.
It is an exciting time to join the departments as we look forward to launching an EPR system next year. Alongside the expansion to the theatre facilities, there are ever growing opportunities to contribute to the RNOH medicines optimisation strategy. Our pharmacy dispensary has recently been relocated to an innovative and purpose built area which also has dedicated office workspace and improved facilities for staff training, research, staff rest areas and dedicated patient consultation and waiting areas., The RNOH operates a Smoke-Free Policy. Smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust's premises (including the grounds that those premises are sited on) or in any Trust owned vehicle.