Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
Pharmacy Technician
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Are you a dedicated, compassionate mental health professional committed to providing great care? Do you want the chance to help shape a new and genuinely innovative service for the women of Kent and Medway?
We’re creating Kent and Medway’s first, and only, NHS Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) for women, and are seeking a talented, qualified Clinical Pharmacy Technician to help us deliver this vital service.
Please note: this is a 12-month maternity cover post.
This role would suit pharmacy technicians with previous mental health and hospital experience who are looking to consolidate their skills, as well as those with genuine interest in mental health from another sector. You will also have the opportunity to work across all the bedded wards in the Dartford locality.
Our Pharmacy Technicians are provided with opportunities for personal growth and development, including support to do accredited medicine management qualification and NHS leadership courses.
If this sounds like the opportunity you have been waiting for, come and join our diverse and compassionate team committed to delivering excellent care and support for service users and their loved ones.
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Responsibilities
In this role, you will support the Lead Pharmacy Technician and Lead Clinical Pharmacist in delivering a high-quality, patient-centred medicines management service within the locality. Key responsibilities include:
- Completing medicines reconciliation on admission.
- Supporting safe and timely discharge through effective medicines management.
- Providing patient counselling to ensure understanding and adherence.
- Coordinating the supply of medicines in line with clinical needs.
- Ensuring patients receive evidence-based pharmacological treatment, are involved in shared decision-making, and are regularly monitored for therapeutic response and potential side effects.
- Attending multidisciplinary team meetings and offering expert advice and support on medication-related issues.
- Contributing to audit, service development, and teaching initiatives.
We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway and are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
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Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.
Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.
Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s working well together.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Julie Davey
- Job title: Lead Pharmacy Technician
- Email address: julie.davey1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07762000950
Basirat Osinaike, Clinical Lead Pharmacist on 07503330539
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