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For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Core Responsibilities: Undertake a mutually agreed range of technical duties in the department, on rotation where required, meeting required departmental standards at all times. It is expected that the post holder will complete any in-house training and internal and/or external accreditation required prior to undertaking these duties. This training will be appropriate to both the competency required to deliver the role and the level of skill and experience demonstrated by the post holder. Be personally responsible for keeping up-to-date with all relevant SOPs, policies and communiqués within the department and, where appropriate, the Trust as a whole Follow departmental Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) at all times, and provide comment and feedback where appropriate, commenting on elements of SOPs relevant to own duties and communicating any arising queries, concerns or issues to the appropriate Lead Specialist Technician or the Chief Technician as appropriate. Maintain patient confidentiality at all times according to Trust policy. To participate in the training of Pre-registration Technicians, Pharmacy Assistants, Pre-registration Pharmacists according to departmental standards and requirements. Pre-registration Pharmacy Technician and Pharmacy Assistant training will require an understanding of NVQ (or equivalent) training requirements. Participation in the induction and training of all new staff as appropriate. Act in a professional, caring and responsible manner at all times to ensure that the needs of patients and other customers of the Pharmacy Service are met. Work weekends and participate in the operational Bank Holiday rotas. Dispensing Services: Participate in Dispensary coordination activities where appropriate Undertake dispensary reception duties when necessary Interpret prescription stationary and accurately and clearly label and dispense prescriptions, ensuring that patients receive comprehensive directions on how to take and get the most from their prescribed medicines. Accurately and safely dispense prescriptions for both in-patients and out-patients in a timely and prompt manner. This will include the dispensing of unlicensed medicines, clinical trial material and specialist products, completing paper records of the patient and the drugs supplied, according to departmental procedure. Immediate reporting of out of stock issues to either the patient or an appropriate member of dispensary staff. Provide the final pharmacy check on dispensed medication (accuracy check) for both in-patient, discharge medicines, out-patient prescriptions and stock supplies of controlled drugs, ensuring that the prescription has been labelled and assembled correctly by other members of pharmacy staff. This does not include any form of clinical check on the prescription content. Errors or omissions made during the dispensing process should be highlighted to dispensing staff in a constructive manner and the corrective action required should be explained and supervised. Where concerns or doubts of the accuracy of another member of staff are identified by the post holder, these must be communicated promptly and appropriately to either the Dispensary Manager, Chief Technician or Chief Pharmacist Handout dispensed prescriptions to patients and carers ensuring that, where delegated, appropriate counselling on prescribed medicines is given to patients, in line with departmental standards, to improve compliance and knowledge of their therapy including dosage, frequency and other directions. This may require the counselling of patients and carers with sight or hearingproblemsand may involve occasional contact with patients with terminal illness or palliative care needs, to ensure that patients are able to get the most from their medicines. Receive, issue and maintain register entries and any appropriate associated documentation for controlled drugs according to legal and departmental standards, reporting any discrepancies to the Dispensary Manager or Chief Technician Identify and refer any formulary related computer issues to the attention of the duty pharmacist to assist in the implementation and enforcement of the Trust Formulary. Promptly bring problems relating to the dispensing of prescriptions, including owing items, to the attention of an appropriate member of staff. Deputise for the Dispensary Manager within the dispensary when required. Comply with the Trust policy on the use of patients own medicines (PODs) and any associated cost containment policies in relation to appropriate quantities of medicines for discharge. This will include assessing PODs for suitability of re-use on discharge, in conjunction with the discharge prescription, and relabelling if appropriate. Ensuring that prescription stationary is fully endorsed with the origin of the medicines supplied, the quantity supplied and where appropriate, the strength of the dispensed medicines, according to departmental policy. Weigh, measure, compound and prepare medicines for patients where accuracy is of the utmost importance. Provision of Stock Distribution Services: Accurately supply requisitioned stock medicines ordered by all wards, clinics, outside hospitals and external customers in a timely and appropriate way. This will require continual prioritisation by the post holder to ensure that deadlines for supply are met and urgently required items are processed as a priority. Meet set transport and portering times to ensure the safe and efficient delivery of medicines across the County. Promptly bring any issues, delays or problems with medicines supply in distribution to the attention of the supervising technician. Where resolution is not immediate, swiftly communicate these issues to an appropriate member of ward/clinical department staff, having referred to an appropriate member of pharmacy staff for advice or a possible alternative solution. Organise the replenishment of the Out of Hours drug cupboard (EDC) as required. Interpret and organise daily intravenous fluid orders from wards and clinical areas. Provision of Aseptic Services: Work within aseptic unit SOPs, policies and procedures at all times. Reconstitute or prepare cytotoxic and monoclonal antibody medicines according to the unit rota, calculating quantities of raw materials required according to worksheets. Participate in the cleaning rota for the aseptic suite sterile and non-sterile areas - according to departmental policy and procedure. Undertake monitoring and validation of the Unit in line with departmental policy according to the rota. Ensure stock levels of required drugs are maintained, ordering extra supplies according to agreed stock levels, when necessary Co-ordinate and manage stock list reviews on a defined regular basis to ensure that the ward area has a comprehensive, rational and appropriate stock of medicines that reflects ward usage and need. Changes should be negotiated with the lead pharmacists and ward managers for the post-holders area. Stock Control Duties: Ensure that stock is rotated according to departmental procedure and that adequate stocks are maintained to meet normal service demands Check stocks on a regular basis (including Annual Stock Takes) Cross-reference stock on shelves against computer stock records to ensure that computer records are accurate.Use computer facilities to obtain reports, and refer any unexplained discrepancies to the relevant Lead Specialist Pharmacy Technician or pharmacist as delegated. Check return items for suitability to credit and re-issue, booking them back into departmental stock when approval to do so given, according to departmental procedure. Provision of Ward-based Technical Services: Complete the relevant sections of the in-house training and accreditation programme in technical ward-based services to support the advanced level and Lead Specialist Technicians in the delivery of near-patient pharmacy services. This may include: Interviewing patients on admission, obtaining consent to use their own medicines (PODs), assessing these for suitability for use and referring any identified problems to the Lead Specialist Technician or Senior Pharmacist Adding pre Admission medicines to bluespier system. Analysing prescription stationery for all patients allocated, to identify any other medicines they will require during their stay and to label and dispense these medicines in a form ready for discharge (one stop dispensing) Regularly reviewing the contents of patients bedside medicine lockers, as required by the Lead Specialist Technician, to ensure that all prescribed medicines are available at the correct time for administration by nursing staff. To assist the Lead Specialist Technician in the accurate and timely completion of patients discharge medicines from the ward, according to agreed discharge times and Trust bed pressure Undertaking DMS referrals.

The EPMA lead technicians prime responsibility will be to: Provide subject matter expert guidance on the EPMA aspects of the Trusts Digital Care Record (DCR); Implement the required medicine configurations and workflows within the DCR so they are reproducible through testing to provide clinical assurance; Help in the operational running and development of the DCR EPMA functionality; Be the primary contact for all EPMA issues across the Trust; Key Duties: 1. Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) System The post holder will be responsible for: Under the leadership of the EPMA Senior Pharmacist provide expert support in the technical aspects of the development, implementation and upgrading of the Trust-wide EPMA system; Implement the required medicine configurations and workflows so they are reproducible through testing to provide clinical assurance; Ensuring the EPMA system works seamlessly for the end user e.g. clinical workflows and decision support; Ensure the efficient operation and integration of the EPMA and pharmacy IT systems; Produce well defined and tested Business Continuity Plans in the case of systems outages; Developing processes in systems or practice that will make delivery of patient care more streamlined and efficient; Supporting the EPMA Senior Pharmacist in the future implementation of new developments within or related to the pharmacy department Assist when required the set up new medicines , users, cost centres and consultants on the pharmacy stock management system and EPMA system, ensuring they are correctly linked to directorates and specialities to ensure effective and accurate costing of medicines use Helping in the implementation of any upgrades of the EPMA, pharmacy stock management and other pharmacy IT systems, including training and updating of standard operating procedures (SOPs). Ensuring that software and hardware is compliant with all relevant legislation, the Trust Medicines Policy and Trust standards of corporate governance Support with staff training in the use of EPMA, all pharmacy IT systems allowing for safe and appropriate use of pharmacy IT equipment Entering and checking the accuracy of new medicine entities, amendments and patient details on the pharmacy and trust systems ensuring compliance with pharmaceutical standards Attend system user group meetings as required. 2. Pharmacy Information reporting The post holder will: Support the EPMA and Pharmacy Informatics Team Lead with provision of financial and operational information required for the effective management of medicines . Produce routine reports to capture and communicate prescribing and administration information of patients to healthcare professionals. Produce ad hoc reports for auditing and other purposes. Analyse and interpret complex data and provide it in a format that meets the requesters needs, linking with other Trust activity information to provide greater insight into pharmacy data and using external sources to provide efficiency and quality benchmarks Devise and validate specialist reports to provide prescribing and administration information which relate to key performance indicators as directed by the Pharmacy Triumvirate Team. 3. Management The post holder will: Support and deputise for the EPMA Senior Pharmacist in their absence in relation to EPMA Supervise pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants, pre-registration pharmacy technicians, Foundation training pharmacists as assigned Be able to analyse and interpret complex data using standard reporting tools e.g. MS Excel as well as providing it in a format that meets the requestors needs. 4. Clinical Governance and Clinical Audit: The post-holder will: Help design, develop and undertake audits to improve EPMA system, pharmacy IT services and to ensure that all legal, professional and service requirements are met. Regularly participate in Trust wide Clinical Audit encouraging other pharmacy staff in this area and liaising with other specialties/departments as necessary. Ensure errors, complaints and incidents are managed within the Trusts guidelines. 5. Personal Development The post holder will: Be expected to keep professionally updated at all times and also actively aware of Trust wide issues and trends. Have a personal professional development plan and identify training needs as required to the EPMA and Pharmacy Informatics Team Leader. Keep clinical and dispensing skills up to date by participation in the rotas as allocated. Demonstrate and maintain a commitment to continuing professional development (CPD) 6. Dispensary and other operational responsibilities (10% of workplan) The post holder will: Hold the nationally accredited checking technician qualification. On occasion provide the final pharmacy check following SOPs on dispensed medication (accuracy check) for in-patient, take home medicines and out-patient prescriptions for the WRH site including outside hospitals and trusts ensuring that the prescription has been labelled and assembled correctly by other members of pharmacy staff. On occasion report errors or omissions made during the dispensing process to dispensing staff in a constructive manner and ensure the corrective action required is explained and supervised. On occasion weigh, measure, count and make medicines, and prepare medicines for administration to patients, where accuracy is of the utmost importance. Maintain patient confidentiality at all times according to Trust procedure and policy. Act in a professional, caring and responsible manner at all times to ensure that the needs of patients and other customers of the Pharmacy Service are met. At all times act in accordance with the General Pharmaceutical Council Standards for pharmacy professionals. Support the WRH pharmacy Saturday/weekend rota A full job description and person specification is available in the supporting information.

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