Clinical Pharmacy Technician Community Mental Health

Job overview

Exciting new opportunity to develop a new clinical pharmacy technician service within our community mental health team (CMHT).

You will be based within our (CMHT) and will be an integral part of the Multidisciplinary Team and help to embed clinical pharmacy services. Your skills and experience will be pivotal in supporting this by ensuring pharmaceutical care and medicines optimisation are fully implemented to the highest standards. If you are keen to learn, looking for a rewarding career at a time of change that offers opportunities to develop your role then this role is for you

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Pharmacy Technician is responsible for ensuring community patients are prioritised appropriately and high risk patients are identified to ensure the patient receives best outcome around safe and effective use of medicines while in our service.

This includes :

Identify individuals prescribed high risk medicines (clozapine, lithium, sodium valproate & high dose antipsychotics) and completion of required physical health and side effect monitoringScreen physical health monitoring in line with national guidance (NICE, Lester tool)the review of currently prescribed medicines following transitions of care

Work with the local Medicines Optimisation (MO) team in developing and delivering the clinical pharmacy service to ensure safe, therapeutic and cost effective use of medication in community teams

To provide medicines optimisation training to staff re assessment, storage, use and disposal of medication in accordance with trust requirements

The post holder will supervise any medicine optimisation technician in the future.

Will be responsible and accountable for their clinical decisions.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.

Please refer to the job description attached to this advert which will provide further information on this role.