Job summary
We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician to join our innovative Home Treatment Teams (HTTs). This exciting role provides specialist medicines management support for people experiencing acute mental health crises who are receiving treatment in the community.

Working as an embedded member of multidisciplinary teams across two HTTs, you will play an important role in improving patient outcomes through medicines reconciliation, medicines optimisation, supporting medication adherence, physical health monitoring, and promoting the safe and effective use of medicines. Working closely with pharmacists, prescribers and other healthcare professionals, you will help ensure high-quality, patient-centred pharmaceutical care is delivered across community mental health services.

There are 2 posts to cover our 4 Home Treatment Teams. Locations are outlined in the job description and site preferences can be discussed at interview.

Main duties of the job
The Pharmacy Technician supports the HTT Pharmacist and the wider HTT in the day-to-day operational management of medicines, including stock control, safe storage and disposal, and support for medicines reconciliation and training activity. The post holder will help ensure HTT medicines processes are compliant with Trust policies and procedures.

The successful candidate will be an organised, flexible individual with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. The role will require this person to:

• Deliver a clinical pharmacy medicines optimisation service to allocated HTTs
• Complete medicines reconciliation for allocated HTTs
• Provide medicines related information and responding to enquiries within scope of role and competence from HTTs
• Work collaboratively towards the goals and objectives of the HTTs and Pharmacy services

About us
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Job responsibilities
Please read the Job Description for further information about the duties and responsibilities of this role.

Qualifications
Essential

• GPhC approved Pharmacy Technician course / recognised qualification
• Registration with the GPhC as a Pharmacy Technician
• Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) or equivalent
• Pharmacy Medicines Optimisation Training Programme or equivalent

Desirable

• Accreditation as an NVQ Assessor / Verifier
• Practice supervisor training or equivalent
• Membership of APTUK
• Membership of CMHP

Experience
Essential

• Experience working as a registered pharmacy technician in a hospital or clinical setting
• Working as Accredited Checking Technician
• Experience of stock management, medicines storage, and controlled drugs handling
• Experience of completing medicines reconciliation
• Basic IT skills including operating a computer, mouse, printers and being able to work with Microsoft Outlook/ Word/ Powerpoint and other such software

Desirable

• Experience within mental health services or a community-based clinical team
• Working as an NVQ Assessor / Verifier
• Working as a Practice supervisor
• Working with JAC hospital pharmacy computer system

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.