Band 3 Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Assistant - Bristol

Job overview

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) is a significant provider of high quality mental health services across a core catchment area covering Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire.

The Trust provides services for people with mental health needs, with needs relating to drug or alcohol dependency and mental health services for people with learning disabilities. Increasingly these services are delivered in community settings. Our community services are supported by inpatient units that provide short term assessment, treatment and care.

The AWP pharmacy service supplies medicines and provides clinical support to wards and teams across our core catchment area. We have two dispensaries: Calne (Wiltshire) and at Callington Road Hospital (Bristol).

This is a new and exciting opportunity for a pharmacy assistant to join our developing medicines optimisation team. We provide high quality support to our patients and are looking for a motivated, flexible and forward-thinking pharmacy assistant. This post offers you the opportunity to build on your existing skills, as well as developing new ones in a supportive environment.

Working hours are 9am until 5pm Monday to Friday, with an occasional commitment to the Saturday and bank holiday rotas. Working hours for weekends and bank holidays are 10am-1pm.

Main duties of the job

This role will be based across the BNSSG system, at both ward level, as well as in community mental  health teams, delivering a high quality medicines optimisation service. This site covers wards providing a specialised forensic, eating disorder and child and adolescent service to patients.

The role will involve working as part of the wider multidisciplinary team consisting of Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacy Assistants, Pharmacists, Nursing  staff, having direct patient contact at ward level and will be involved in contributing to patient care. You will be maintaining stock, ordering patient-specific medicines and undertaking audits which feed into our clinical governance meetings.

The role also involves working at Callington Road Hospital pharmacy dispensary, performing general pharmaceutical duties under the supervision of a Dispensary Manager and/or Pharmacist, in line with current policies and procedures. You should be caring and passionate about service users and committed to providing patient centred care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information on the role requirements.