Specialist Pharmacy Technician- ePMANHS

Job summary

The Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Part-time specialist Pharmacy Technician- ePMA to join our pharmacy team.

• Are you an established Pharmacy Technician who wants to deliver high quality pharmaceutical care using an electronic prescribing and record system in a hospital team?
• Are you interested in delivering quality improvement through digital technologies?

If so, come and join us at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.

This exciting role will provide you with a range of experiences in ePMA system development, providing clinical decision support and medication safety features across various functionalities within the system.

You will also be part of the clinical services team, providing clinical care to a variety of medical, surgical and admissions wards.

Main duties of the job

A flavour of your day to day

Your week will consist of a mixture of clinical and digital activities. Within your digital role, you will work with the ePMA Meds Team and wider digital team to provide maintenance and improvements to the trusts electronic prescribing system.

Working clinically, you will deliver direct, patient-facing care ensuring the safe and appropriate use of medicines across the Trust.

Through the structured rotation plan you will be exposed to, and work within, a number of clinical areas, including:

Medical wards

Surgical wards

Admissions wards

Inpatient and outpatient dispensary

The department works on an extended hours, seven day pharmacy service on a rostered basis.

Job description

Job summary

Support dispensary services by checking stock and prescriptions, ordering medicines, dispensing, labelling, accuracy checking and counselling patients on their pharmaceutical needs.

Support ward-based activities by undertaking stock control, medication supply, medicines reconciliation, expediting medicines for patient discharge and utilising close liaison with ward pharmacists, medical and nursing teams.

Communication with patients to inform and coach them about their healthcare requirements.

Support improvements in patient safety, staff support and health and wellbeing.

About us

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?