Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician: Mental Health

No two days are quite the same. As an MMPT, you will:

As an MMPT, you will provide a comprehensive, patient-centred medicines management and medicines optimisation service across inpatient and community mental health services. You will work autonomously within your scope of practice, taking responsibility for medicines reconciliation and medicines supply, proactively identifying discrepancies, resolving medicines-related problems and helping to reduce delays to treatment and discharge.

Patient interaction is central to this role. You will speak directly with patients and carers about their medicines, undertake person-centred medicines consultations, provide tailored medicines counselling and support patients to understand and manage their treatment. You will also play an active role in discharge planning, medicines optimisation and DMS referrals, supporting safer transitions of care between hospital, community pharmacy and other healthcare services.

Working closely with pharmacists and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will be an active and visible member of the clinical team, documenting interventions and escalating medicines-related concerns appropriately. You will contribute to medicines governance, accuracy checking, audit, quality improvement and medicines safety initiatives, while also supporting the education and development of trainees, pharmacy colleagues and other healthcare professionals.

You will work flexibly to meet the needs of the pharmacy service, including providing reciprocal medicines management cover and supporting services across Trust sites as required.

Above all, we are looking for someone who is proactive, patient-focused and enthusiastic about the evolving role of pharmacy technicians, and who wants to help us continue developing an ambitious, high-quality medicines management service.

Why choose to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust?

We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome forall3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliveroutstanding care 4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvementand technology.

Qualifications/ Registrations

Skills/Abilities

Desirable: - Evidence of teaching or presentation skills; - Evidence of audit, quality improvement or service development.

Experience/Knowledge

Desirable: - Experience of mental health pharmacy, including knowledge of commonly used and high-risk medicines.