Senior Pharmacy Technician - Community Health Services - Virtual Ward

at  East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Community Health Services (CHS) Pharmacy team in supporting patients cared for in our Virtual Wards within ESHT.
Virtual Wards will be a safe & efficient alternative to NHS bedded care that is enabled by technology. Virtual wards support patients who would otherwise be in hospital to receive the acute care, monitoring & treatment they need in their own home. This includes either preventing avoidable admissions into hospital or supporting early discharge out of hospital.
Our vision at ESHT is the service to be “Clinically led, user centric, integrated model which is digitally enabled”.
The post holder will be providing patient care in patients own homes, and able to travel independently across sites. You will be using technology to support and monitor patients.
We are seeking an experienced, enthusiastic, self-motivated and dynamic Pharmacy Technician with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You will work with colleagues across the integrated care system to develop and maintain high quality, clinically driven pathways so that we are able to provide the best patient experience to our local population.
This senior pharmacy technician post is responsible for providing direct specialist support to the virtual ward pharmacy service provided to patients supported by CHIC division (Community Health and Integrated Care) community-based teams and services (excluding bedded units) including community nursing, working with the Highly Specialist Pharmacist, and other members of the CHS pharmacy team.
The postholder will be collaborating with an integrated workforce of doctors, nurses and AHPs, as well as specialist colleagues in Respiratory, Heart Failure and Frailty.
The postholder will be required to liaise with colleagues working in the virtual ward, which are expected to be across both professional and organisational boundaries.
We are proud to provide ‘Outstanding’ care and be a great place to work
We provide safe, compassionate and high quality care to half a million people living or visiting East Sussex. We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex, the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our extensive services are provided by 7000 + members of staff working from acute hospitals in Hastings and Eastbourne, three community hospitals in Bexhill, Rye and Uckfield, over 100 community sites and in people’s own homes.
In 2020 the Care Quality Commission rated us as ‘Good’ overall, and ‘Outstanding’ for being caring and effective. The Conquest Hospital and our Community Services are rated ‘Outstanding’. Eastbourne DGH rated ‘Good’.
In 2020, the Trust launched its ambitious ‘Building for our Future’ programme. This once in a lifetime programme aims to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals, transforming the environment in which we provide care for generations to come.
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