Medicines Management Technician

Due to internal promotion, the Pharmacy department are seeking to appoint a motivated and dynamic pharmacy technician.

You will need to be inspirational and determined in your approach and be able to influence healthcare professionals outside of traditional pharmacy boundaries. We can offer you the opportunity to succeed in providing the highest standards of care for patients, developing your own professional career.

You will spend most of your working week on your ward. You will actively participate in the multi-disciplinary team making pharmaceutical interventions, ensuring medicines reconciliation queries are resolved at the first opportunity, ensuring the most appropriate medicines are started in line with Trust formulary, ensuring effective antimicrobial stewardship, ensuring effective medicines safety (e.g. where appropriate, that VTE prophylaxis is in place, that therapeutic drug monitoring is occurring), ensuring transfer of care information is captured when medicines are started, stopped and changed, ordering new medicines when necessary and ensuring effective discharge planning takes place., Directly accountable to the Pharmacy Technician Team Manager you will help shape services and standards, driving improvements in medicines optimisation.

This is an extremely exciting time to join our pharmacy team. We are developing our own ward based pharmacy support to all wards. The wards have their own dedicated pharmacist / technician and assistant, to support medicines optimisation, and to deliver proactive ward-based pharmacy services by supporting effective discharge planning and patient counselling and education.

Alongside our medical, nursing and pharmacy colleagues, you must have a strong desire to help manage change in policies, procedures and associated risk management activities which lead to quality improvements on admission and discharge.

You will improve key performance indicators in patient education about medicines, time to discharge, length of stay and re-admission rates. This approach has been shown to reduce length of stay; get patients home earlier in the day, reduce readmission rates, reduce drug expenditure, and improve patient and staff experience.

We have Medicine Administration technicians on various wards across the trust to support our nursing colleagues.

Choose Well - Choose WWL

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff, makes for happy patients'. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values 'the WWL Way'.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.