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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
band 5
Contract
Permanent: 6 months probationary period, support oncology inpatient with leave cover
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
391-NMUH-7267401
Employer
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
the North Middlesex University Hospital Health Unit
Town
Edmonton
Salary
£34,521 - £41,956 per annum inclusive of HCAs
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
17/07/2025 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Medicines Management Nursing and Pharmacy Technician

band 5

Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community.  This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

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Job overview

To work under the direction of nurses to deliver and constantly strive to improve cancer patients medicine management services

Support the treatment area manager and Chief Pharmacy Technician - Medicine Management and Education, Training & Development in developing and maintaining the medicines management service at local level.

Work closely with the pharmacists and support them in taking the medicines reconciliation of newly admitted patients, assessment of patients own drugs, providing original pack dispensing, provision of TTO packs, managing satellite pharmacies, counselling patients about their medicines and co-ordinating the supply of discharge medicines.

Support nursing staff to ensure delivery of actions to ensure patients are not routinely discharged without time critical medicines

 The successful candidate must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council and will have successfully completed a BTEC and a Level 3 NVQ in Pharmaceutical Services or the equivalent. 

The successful candidate will work closely with nursing and pharmacy colleagues to ensure the provision of integrated and efficient care to hospital in-patients and day units. 

Main duties of the job

 To provide a patient centred approach to promoting medicines optimisation at a ward-based level. The post holder is expected to apply their knowledge and skills of clinical pharmacy to all aspects of the job role. 

 Support the rotation of stock to prevent out of date medication from occurring 

Assists the CDU Manager and Ward Pharmacists in the implementation and monitoring of the self-administration programme for patients in designated clinical areas in line with MP15 – Self-administration Policy. 

To manage the transfer or return of medicines, following patient transfer or discharge, by liaising with ward staff and/or by checking CareFlow EPR on the Trust computer systems.

 To collect, collate and analyse audit data, as needed. To produce reports for all stakeholders and to present this in an understandable format. To ensure all action plans are completed and the cycle repeated to ensure effectiveness of all changes.

Support the ward with daily monitoring of fridge and room temperature checks and take the appropriate actions to ensure any adverse temperatures are rectified in a timely manner as outlined in the medicine management policy 

Support the ward/unit team prevent omitted doses of critical medicine 

Support ward staff with EPMA queries as required 

Working for our organisation

NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide Medicines Management duties to allocated wards, i.e. checking and assessing of Patients Own Drugs (on attaining the in-house accreditation programme for ward based technicians or MOP - Medicines Optimisation course); drug history taking of new patients; near patient dispensing, counselling services, ordering of in-patient and one stop medicines and annotating of drug charts (according to departmental policies) and helping manage drug recall and drug shortages. These activities will be supervised, and assessments will be carried out on performance until candidate completes in house training and competencies

See Job description for main responsibilities and detailed descriptions of main duties 

Person specification

Education and professional Qulifications

Essential criteria
  • NVQ level 3 pharmacy or equivalent
  • Accredited checking or equivalent
  • Registration with GPhC pharmacy technician
Desirable criteria
  • teaching certificate

Experience

Essential criteria
  • experience of working within a hospital pharmacy
  • working within an MDT setting
  • experience of working within a fast pace environment
  • experience of undertaking medicine reconciliation
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge and experience of cancer drugs

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Good written communication skills
  • Good knowledge of working within SOP's
  • Ability to use initiative to problem solve
Desirable criteria
  • knowledge of ChemoCare systems
  • understanding of audit and use of audit to drive improvements

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Nursing TimesApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleDisability confident employerTimewise PartnerCare Quality Commission - Requires improvementEnei MemberArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Monica Deckon
Job title
Matron for Oncology and Palliative Care
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07929382860
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