Jennifer Dickson

Registered Pharmacy Technician with significant experience working in the NHS since 2002, with the last 10 years in primary care. Skilled in medicines management, safety systems, and stakeholder liaison. Reliable, hardworking and motivated professional with strong communication skills and clinical knowledge.

Experienced in working both autonomously and as part of a team, managing high workload capacity effectively while maintaining governance and safety standards across primary, secondary, domiciliary care and care homes.

Specialist Care home and Medicines Management Technician - Cheshire and Merseyside ICB

(2019-01)

• Medicines improvement work
• Supporting GP practice to improve medicines safety systems and processes
• Helping to monitor and improve high risk drug processes
• Maximising safe and cost-effective prescribing across primary care
• Carry out safe and securing handling medicines audit
• Delivering the ICB medicines management workplan
• Liaising with GPs, care homes, patients and other stakeholders to improve prescribing
• Following local and national protocols to reduce medicines wastage
• Delivering training to GP staff and care home staff in relation to medicines management priorities

Medicines Management Technician - Knowsley Clinical Commissioning group

(2015-01 - 2019-12)

• Working as both an individual and as part of a team
• Monitoring prescribing and advising where appropriate
• Following local prescribing guidelines
• Providing medicines management support and advice to GP practices and other healthcare professionals
• Auditing domicillary care

Senior Medicines Management Technician - Bridgewater Community Healthcare Trust

(2014-01 - 2015-12)

• Assisting the NON -Medical Prescribing Lead in facilitating the issue, storage, documentation and destruction where appropriate of prescriptions
• Assisting the non medical prescribing lead in advising on adhering to local prescribing formularies
• Involvement in the training of non-medical prescribers
• Supporting the pharmacist in medicines management queries
• Involvement in updating Patient Group Directions and maintaining a database for these
• Communicating with executive and non-executive staff on internal and interface issues surrounding medicines management

Ward based and inpatient pharmacy accuracy checking technician - Whiston Hospital Pharmacy Department

(2002-01 - 2014-12)

• Accuracy checking prescriptions
• Ward based work such as dealing with patients own medications and advising where appropriate alongside the pharmacist
• Facilitating the storage, documentation and recording of clinical trials
• Dispensing Controlled Drugs

GCSE - General Education - De La Salle High School (1995-01 - 2000-12)

BTEC Professional Diploma - Pharmaceutical Sciences - Liverpool Community College (2003-01 - 2005-12)

NVQ Level 3 - Pharmacy Services - Liverpool Community College (2003-01 - 2005-12)

BTEC Diploma - Accuracy Checking - Preston College (2012-01 - 2012-12)

BTEC Level 4 Professional Diploma - Pharmacy Clinical Services - Bradford College (2019-01 - 2021-12)