To assist the Pharmacy Team in the development and delivery of a medicines management service to HMP Bedford using the in-house electronic prescribing system.
To delivery of a safe and effective medicines management process.
To act as an Accredited Checking Technician and Medicine Management Technician, when required.
To work within the operational pharmacy team and represent pharmacy when requested/required.
Assist in the delivery of a high-quality dispensing service to HMP Bedford, ensuring medicines are dispensed to agreed standards, calculating doses and quantities for supply. Including the supply of medicines in Monitored Dosage Systems.
Ensure that pharmacy technical operations (ordering, handling, storage and disposal of medicines) are undertaken in a safe, secure and efficient manner that complies with medicines legislation and good practice
Liaise with other members of the healthcare team (including doctors, consultants and nurses), providing medicines related guidance, to reduce medicines errors.
Provide medication on an individual patient basis, effectively delivering complex information and advice to prescribers, patients and carers where necessary.
Support healthcare staff to ensure prescribing and administration of medicines takes place in accordance with local policy.
Ensure patient related records are kept up to date.
CNWL are committed to a sustainable future and to improving the social and environmental well-being of our care community. We are dedicated to environmental improvements that embrace a sustainable future that require a shared understanding of our ambitions.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Undertake audits of medicines use and medicines management processes regularly, giving feedback to the Specialist Pharmacist, Prison Health as required.
Contribute to multidisciplinary audits within defined clinical areas, making recommendations to the Clinical Governance & Audit Group based on audit findings.
Participate in service development initiatives in order to help maintain or improve the quality of care provided to patients.
To provide input into policy and procedures affecting the use of pharmaceuticals at HMP Bedford and other CNWL Foundation Trust site

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