Pharmacy Technician

at  Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Pharmacy Technician Band 5.
East Integrated Cluster Network Team.
The post holder although based as part of the Integrated Network Team will also work with the GP Practices, residential care homes and into the community to respond in a timely way to patients needs in the community and within residential care homes. The post holder will need to work within their Cluster, working closely with GP staff, and the wider Multi-disciplinary staff within the practices as well as the Integrated Community Network Teams and the Community Resource Team.
The Team currently consists of staff from Social Work, District Nursing Service and the Third Sector. It is now expanding to include a wider range of professionals, which will include: Occupational Therapy; Physiotherapy; Community Psychiatric Nursing; Speech and Language Therapy and Pharmacy support. The Team will work collaboratively with staff from the GP surgeries as a key part of the role. This holistic approach provides a full offer of support for adults with changing needs in their localities as well as meeting complexity of needs.
The post holder will work collaboratively with the wider multi-disciplinary general practice teams to meet the needs of people within their communities.
Assisting the team to deliver medicines management support and education linked to care in domiciliary settings
The Pharmacy Technician will work with an integrated, multidisciplinary community team to deliver medicines management support and education linked to care in domiciliary settings. This will contribute to improving patient outcomes and minimising harm, which may lead to unscheduled care and admissions.
Through collaboration with a range of health and social care professionals, the post holder will assess medicines management requirements and enable patients (service users/clients) to manage their own medicines at home, or otherwise facilitate appropriate support, contributing to the training of staff involved. Promoting independence and improving support for the frail elderly on multiple medicines will be key along with involvement in discharge planning.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

WE LIVE BY OUR CORE VALUES:

We listen, learn and improve
We treat everyone with respect
We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Use specialist knowledge to work across Health and Social Care to improve medicines management, promote independence and improve care outcomes for people requiring support in their own homes.
Undertake individual assessments of patients and identify their medicines management needs. Ensure effective liaison with colleagues across health and social care to establish a suitable level of assistance, supporting more generic staff in the delivery of this assistance.
Identify and escalate to the Clinical Lead Pharmacist medicines management issues outside of competency or requiring a pharmacist input.
Manage a defined caseload of patients with medicines management needs within the domiciliary care setting using evidence based/patient centred principles, guidance and procedures to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in their medicines management, maintaining associated records in line with local standards.
Audit/measure medicines to assess concordance with medicines usage where appropriate i.e. series of medicines counts.
Where appropriate (and within competency), provide advice on changes to medicines regimes, dosage, formulations etc
Demonstrate a sound understanding of the needs of frail, older and disabled people and promote their independence with regards to medicines management, advising on aids to independence as appropriate.
Promote patients’, families’/carers’ involvement in the assessment, planning and evaluation of medicines management services.
Provide information, advice and support to families and carers with regards to medicines management needs and services.
Monitor progress and ensure effectiveness of interventions and record outcomes for all patients on caseload.
Adopt a proactive approach to identifying situations where an individual may be vulnerable or have particular needs e.g. patients with dementia.
Report any child protection and vulnerable adult concerns using the appropriate public protection procedures.
Respect the dignity, individuality, values, cultural and religious diversity of patients and contribute to the provision of a service sensitive to these needs.
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