Pharmacy Technician Healthcare

at  Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will work as an effective member of the Primary Care Team in providing healthcare services, including medication administration to the patients. They will deliver care within the boundaries of their role, focussing on supporting patients to be healthy; monitoring of long-term conditions, health promotion and screening and responding to emergencies.
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.
Administer medication and adhere to statutory and organisational requirements and guidelines relating to this
Provide advice to prisoners about their medications
Check medication charts and cross off out of date prescriptions and order prescription renewals
Undertake risk assessments of prisoners for ‘In-Possession’ medication
Refer problems relating to clinical the clinical management of a patient to the appropriate clinician
Respond to healthcare emergencies within the prison
Undertake basic observations (BP, pulse, blood glucose, temperature, SATS) as required and respond to abnormalities accordingly
Recognise signs and symptoms of drug and alcohol withdrawal and support individuals who have substance misuse problems.
Support patients who are distressed and could be at risk of harm to themselves or others or who are at risk of suicide
Identify shortfalls and overages in stock levels, equipment failure and liaise with appropriate staff to reconcile
Work collaboratively with the team to meet the needs of patients with specified long term conditions by providing quality evidence based care
Assist with stock control and equipment checking (All clinical areas and emergency bags)
Undertake such duties as may be reasonably required from time to time, as are consistent with the responsibility and scale of the post
Support the promotion of health and wellbeing of prisoners
Assist with clerical and administrative duties as required
We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.
Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.
With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you’re at, there’s always a place for you at CNWL.
Communicate effectively with other team members, prison staff and external agencies both verbally and written
Communicate in a way that promotes a positive view of you, the healthcare department and the organisation
Attend and participate in daily staff briefings
Attend and participate in full staff and admin meetings
Respond to requests for information within the remit of your role
Use appropriately the SystmOne Clinical software and Prison P-Nomis systems
Maintain clear and comprehensive, signed and contemporaneous records both written and electronic in accordance with National, Local and MKCHS Policy
Personal and people development
Take responsibility for own developmental learning and performance, including participating in supervision and appraisal
Take responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal development
Participate and undertake all mandatory and additional training as identifie

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