Care Coordination Pharmacy Technician

EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. We are among the largest employers in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.

Our vision is to be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care. Our purpose is to care for people every day. What we do together, matters.

We care, we empower.

An exciting opportunity has arisen at EPUT for an experienced, registered pharmacy technician to join the specialist pharmacy team at Essex Partnership University Trust. This post will be based at Rochford Hospital, caring for the South East Essex Community. You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and experience of influencing others. You should be able to resolve issues identified and communicate effectively with service users, care staff, hospital staff and the wider pharmacy team. The post holder must possess excellent interpersonal, problem-solving, and time management skills and be flexible. You will be self-motivated, able to work independently, and, above all, passionate about providing the highest standards of care to service users.

Main duties of the job include:

• Participating in the provision and development of pharmaceutical services within the Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust as part of the Trust’s pharmacy team.
• Providing technical support to the dispensary, including formulating and compounding pharmaceuticals, dispensing and checking prescriptions accurately, and ensuring efficient stock control.
• Implementing the prescribing changes identified during the review and carrying out the reviews to ensure that patients’ medicines are being optimised.
• Providing medicines management advice, intelligence and support to the care-coordination team, GP practices, care homes, community pharmacies and other stakeholders.
• Offering practical solutions to problems relating to medicines.

Working for our organisation, EPUT are looking for motivated staff who share our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including:

• Season Ticket Loans
• Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
• Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
• The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work

The post holder will be required to develop relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, including GPs and practice staff, care home staff, and community pharmacy staff. They will dispense in-patient, out-patient, and leave/discharge prescriptions and clinical trial materials. They will process prescriptions using the pharmacy IT system; select, compile, package, label, and record prescription items according to departmental procedure. They will maintain controlled drug register, making entries, checking and reconciling stock as appropriate.

Qualifications required include NVQ Level 3 or equivalent, pharmacy experience, community experience, medicine counselling experience, self-motivation, evidence of staff management, and evidence of education and training.

Applications for Job Share are positively welcomed. Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services.