Senior Pharmacy Technician - Ward Based Services

This post holder will work within the ward-based pharmacy team providing a pharmaceutical care service within the medical and surgical directorates based at Hereford County Hospital.
The role is to be directly involved in the delivery of high quality care to patients at ward level through efficient medicines optimisation. This will include the assessment of patients' own drugs, medicines reconciliation, discharge-planning, counselling of patients about their medication and coordinating the supply of discharge medication to support efficient patient flow throughout the hospital., Clinical Responsibilities:
+ To confirm and document medication histories for patients brought into the acute wards covered by the service in line with relevant procedures.
+ To communicate with patients, carers, GPs and community pharmacies to ensure that medication histories are accurate.
+ To assess patients' own drugs in line with relevant procedures and to ensure that the drugs are stored safely following the appropriate standard operating procedures.
+ To ensure that patients' own drugs are transferred with patients either at the point of transfer to another ward or at discharge.
+ To facilitate timely discharges from ward areas by completing discharge prescriptions efficiently when required.
+ To communicate with patients and nursing staff to ensure timely supply of medication especially critical medication.
+ To communicate drug and medication related information to patients, carers, relatives and members of the multidisciplinary team and provide counselling where necessary.
+ To discuss optimal compliance solutions with patients and carers with special circumstances.
+ To provide advice to patients and carers regarding doses and side effects to optimise compliance.
+ To use knowledge and experience to ensure that prescribing falls within the WVT formulary and refer any issues outside of their remit to the pharmacist responsible for the area in question.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."
Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.