Medicines Optimisation Technician

The postholder will be part of the Community Healthcare Division clinical pharmacy service available to patients across the Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust (CHFT) footprint in their own homes in the Calderdale area. This may be as part of the CHFT Virtual Ward (VW)/Urgent Community Response Team (UCR) or the wider Community Healthcare Division.A virtual ward is a safe and efficient alternative to NHS bedded care that is enabled by technology.They support patients who would otherwise be in hospital to receive the acute care, monitoring and treatment they need in their own home. This includes either preventing avoidable admissions into hospital, or supporting early discharge out of hospital.For the purpose of this post all adult patients who are accepted to the VW/UCR caseload who are registered with a GP in Calderdale and Huddersfield may be reviewed, they may also be referreddirectly from 111 Triage, CHFT staff or Gateway to Care when concerns about medication that might
increase chances of admission or readmission are identified. Patients may be on high risk medication or complex regimes.The post holder will work with other health and social care organisations across Calderdale and Huddersfield to implement and co-ordinate medicines optimisation principles to support patients in the safe and effective use of medicines in their own homes., To work independently and without direct supervision across the CHFT footprint ensuring adherence to Medicines Optimisation protocols and guidance this will include domiciliary visits.o To provide and receive information relating to medicines and medicines optimisation including: clinical information regarding patient care, medicines reconciliation skills, technical medicines optimisation/therapeutics information and prescribing activity dataderived from audit data, and similar sources;o Communicate complex and sometimes sensitive medicines-related information to patients, carers and other healthcare professionalso Completion of Medication Administration Records for the Community Teams.o To analyse, interpret and compare medicines-related information to provide highly specialised advice concerning care of individual patients on the virtual ward or other Community Healthcare Division services.o In conjunction with other team members, plan, organise and implement prescribing support services
to the VW to promote cost efficiencies and medicines safety in prescribing. This may include reacting promptly to changes in medicines use, availability or guidance to support member practices

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.