Senior Pharmacy Technician - Frailty (Sheppey Community Hospital)

at  Medway NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will work at an enhanced specialist level frailty clinical service on the wards and deliver quality care to patients at ward level through efficient medicines optimisation. As part of the Clinical Pharmacy Frailty Team, you will be able to be get involved with critical projects developing the service and care for our patients across interfaces including the safe transfer of care around medicines. The Clinical Pharmacy Frailty Team will lead on medicines optimisation strategies including palliative and end of life care. The Frailty team will utilise tool such as STOPP-START, STOP and 7 STEPs in response to the National Overprescribing Review pledge of September 2021 around polypharmacy and overprescribing This will include the assessment of patients own drugs, medicine reconciliation, and discharge planning, counselling patients about their medicines and coordinating the supply of discharge medication to ensure patient flow.
The post holders will work with the clinical pharmacy team to continually develop the service, while maintaining high standards and achieving best practice to meet the needs of patients and the Trust. The role will involve being a Practice/Educational supervisor, Line management and leadership and will also involve taking responsibility for a defined area of service delivery (frailty sub-acute lone off-site working). The role will also involve dispensary-based responsibilities including dispensing-on-ward activity and working as an accredited checking Technician

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