Pharmacy Accuracy Checking Technician

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Summary

This role is responsible for providing accurate final checking of all Renal and HPN orders (PD HHD and MCB) that contain POM & P (Prescription Only Medicines & Pharmacy medicines) and ancillary items before their dispatch from the pharmacy to patients. All pharmacy patient dispensing processes must be compliant with all relevant Company standards (Pharmacy Standard Operating Procedures Good Documentation Practices Health & Safety and Good Warehousing Practices) regulatory bodies (e.g. GPhC - General Pharmaceutical Council RPS - Royal Pharmaceutical Society and in compliance with patient confidentiality standards (including GDPR).

Key Accountabilities

• Complete the final checks of all Renal & HPN products to be dispensed ensuring all errors are recorded on designated forms errors are corrected and escalated to the duty supervisors and Lead Pharmacist.
• Maintain the required pharmacy dispensing records ensuring a clear audit trail using Good Documentation Practices.
• Ensure all details for home patient orders are correct and patient labels are applied to every product in accordance with the labelling requirements in the Medicines Ethics and Practice guide for Pharmacists and the labelling recommendations of the NPSA. This may extend to unlicensed medicines.
• Ensuring all orders are processed on time as required by the patient check all returns and complete the relevant pharmacy documentation.
• Ensure a full and complete handover is completed and communicated before the end / beginning of each shift to the Responsible Pharmacist.
• Undertake Pharmacy Risk Assessments and submit report findings to the Responsible Pharmacist.
• Support pharmacy procedural activities with the Pharmacist including complaint management and prescription investigations.
• File prescriptions and legal documents to enable easy access to each patients detailed history in line with General Data Protection Regulations
• Ensure all outstanding prescriptions are retrieved from the hospitals to ensure compliance with the Human Medicines Regulations.
• Collate the daily errors / near misses and submit it to the Senior Dispensers as part of the monthly statistics.
• Report all pharmacy incidents errors and adverse events and where appropriate follow through with a yellow card report to the MHRA.
• Alert the Lead Pharmacist of issues relating quality and risk of products followed by completing the corrective actions in line with UK Quality Assurance Standard Operating Procedures.

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Key Skills

Load & Unload,LTC Pharmacy,Typing,Inventory Control,Customer Service,Hospital Experience,Pharmacy Software,Communication skills,Math,Pharmacy Technician Experience,Order Entry,Compounding Medications

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1