# Pharmacy Technician

**Company**: Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
**Location**: Dartford
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £32,073 to £39,043 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Pharmacy Technician to join our team at Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. This is a 12-month maternity cover post, and you will be working across all the bedded wards in the Dartford locality.

As a Pharmacy Technician, you will support the Lead Pharmacy Technician and Lead Clinical Pharmacist in delivering a high-quality, patient-centred medicines management service within the locality. Your key responsibilities will 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

In return, we offer a salary of £32,073 to £39,043 per annum, pro rata, plus a High Cost Area Supplement. You will also have opportunities for personal growth and development, including support to do accredited medicine management qualifications and NHS leadership courses.

If you are a motivated and compassionate individual with a genuine interest in mental health, we would love to hear from you.

## Skills

### Required
- NVQ level 3 Diploma in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians
- Registered with GPhC
- Medications management knowledge
- Advanced IT literacy
- Good understanding of primary care and secondary care
- Able to work as part of a team
- Excellent communication skills
- Good presentation skills

### Nice to have
- Accredited Medicine management qualification
- Accredited accuracy checking qualification
- Experience of working on a female psychiatric ward or psychiatric intensive care unit
- Good understanding of the issues affecting mental health prescribing
- Project management skills

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