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Description
Due to promotion, were seeking a dynamic, experienced and highly motivated Pharmacy Technician to join our medicines optimisation care homes team at Salford.
Salford Care Homes Medical Practice is a unique GP Practice within Salford Care Organisation, providing medical care to older people living in residential and nursing homes within Salford. The successful candidate will work alongside the integrated multidisciplinary team at the Practice, participating in a range of medicines optimisation activities and supporting residents to get the best outcomes from their medicines.
This i s an excellent career opportunity to work collaboratively with care homes staff, community specialist teams and the hospital, making a real difference.
The post requires you to be enthusiastic, resilient, adaptable and able to plan/manage your time to meet the needs/goals of the service.
In addition to working with our Care Home Pharmacists, you will have the support of our friendly community services pharmacy team. This is an exciting chance to learn new skills and develop your career, through tailored in-service training and leadership development opportunities.
This clinical role is based in a GP Practice, with visits to care homes across Salford for medicine reviews. Duties will include medication history taking, identifying and resolving medicines-related issues, answering telephone/email medicine queries from care homes, liaising with prescribers and community pharmacies regarding the supply of medicines and supporting pharmacists with post-hospital discharge medication reviews to reduce hospital readmission's for care home residents. Training of care home staff is an important feature of the role.
The post-holder will attend MDT meetings, providing advice to health and social care professionals. The post-holder will promote high quality and cost-effective prescribing and undertake audits.
As this is an ever-evolving role, the post-holder will contribute to new service developments and projects, to facilitate improvement and changes.
There is currently no weekend/late night commitment. Access to a vehicle for work purposes will be required
The Diagnostics and Pharmacy Group is part of the Northern Care Alliance (NCA), one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place of science, innovation and transformational thinking, the Diagnostic and Pharmacy Group unites Radiology, Pathology and Pharmacy services across the NCA to create a cooperative group committed to delivering safe, consistent, and high-quality care.
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
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