Pharmacy Technician – Higher Level

Responsibilities

While working in the dispensary as part of the dispensary rota the post holder is responsible for:

• The day-to-day triaging of prescriptions arriving in pharmacy for either review by a pharmacist, dispensing or stock supply.
• As an accredited checking technician for the final accuracy check on dispensed in/outpatient prescriptions.
• To dispense medicines for inpatients and outpatients including TTAs, self-medication, filling of compliance aids and the supply of patient information leaflets in accordance with SOPs.
• While working on wards the post holder will undertake duties ensuring efficient delivery and development of a unit-based pharmacy service, under the supervision of the unit pharmacist. These include ensuring medicines for new admissions are supplied in a timely manner, providing ward medicines top-up services, and ensuring medicines for TTAs and discharge are available when necessary.
• The postholder will assist in the training of any pre-registration trainee pharmacy technician that may be in post or any uplift of skills for staff already employed and in the training of any new staff with a dispensing or ward commitment.
• To ensure delivery of these tasks the post holder will need to problem solve and be able to meet deadlines.
• To triage prescriptions arriving in pharmacy for either review by a pharmacist, transcribing & dispensing or stock supply.
• To be responsible for the final accuracy check on dispensed prescriptions dispensed by other pharmacy staff in both the main dispensary and repeat outpatient dispensary.
• To deal with telephone enquiries concerning the supply of medicines to wards, clinics and service users and to deal with any problems that may arise.
• To identify new admissions, ensure their medicines have been ordered if not stock and compile a list for the unit pharmacist.
• Assess medicines brought into hospital by the patient for suitability to use during their in-patient stay. This may involve supporting the unit pharmacist to clarify the patients’ medicines regimen prior to admission.
• To independently provide a stock top-up service to all wards based at the unit.
• To independently order non-stock medicines from pharmacist-verified prescriptions.
• To support nursing staff with the safe storage of medicines and stock rotation in clinical rooms, ensuring all medicines are stored under appropriate conditions compliant with CQC requirements.
• Identity patient needs with respect to medicines information and barriers to adherence and provide advice to patients, carers, and clinical staff.
• To participate in the clinical pharmacy team rota including adequate plans for handover so that a uniform service is provided during periods of sickness and annual leave.

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