Pharmacy Technician

Job overview

This is a challenging and rewarding opportunity to join our department as a Band 4 Pharmacy Technician. We are seeking a forward thinking and highly motivated Pharmacy Technician to deliver a high quality, safe and effective pharmacy service. There is huge scope for the successful applicant to develop on both a personal and professional level through exposure to all departmental activities.

The post holder will join a team of specialist and generalist clinical pharmacists, medicines optimisation technicians and pharmacy assistants in delivering high quality, safe and effective care to patients and service users. You will undertake a wide range of clinical pharmacy activities in addition to six monthly specialist rotations. These areas include and are not limited to: pre-operative assessment, spinal rehabilitation medicine, clinical trials, homecare, complex long-term bone and soft-tissue infection management as well as post-operative care and high dependency/critical care.

This is a full time role (37.5 hours) post for a Band 4 pharmacy technician who will play an integral part of the medicines optimisation clinical services team providing a Pharmacy service and working closely within the multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, forward thinking and pro-active pharmacy technician to join our progressive team at RNOH. There is extensive scope for the successful applicant to develop on both a personal and professional level through exposure to all departmental activities, contributing towards portfolio building and the opportunity for further roles in the future.

The post holder will be required to possess good communication and interpersonal skills, be able to work effectively in busy environments both independently and within a team. Computer skills are essential. Ideally, the post holder should have previous NHS experience

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will:

• Have experience of working in a hospital pharmacy post registration  Undertake or willing to work towards Medicines Optimisation training
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to deliver patient focused care and ensure a timely supply of medicines, utilisation of patients’ own medicines and medicines adherence training
• Participate in medicines optimisation, ward top-up and ward-based dispensing
• Provide dispensary-based patient services to inpatients and outpatients including clinical trials
• Complete or work towards working as an Accredited Pharmacy Checking Technician qualification
• Participate in the training of Pre-registration Pharmacy Technicians and Pharmacists and rotate through specialist work-streams.
• Undertake a course in Education and Training to facilitate learning
• Have good IT knowledge and training experience on Pharmacy system

Through provision of an effective Pharmacy service, this post will: Challenge problem solving skills

• Strengthen organisational skills by co-ordination and prioritisation of work.
• Improve communication skills
• Development and expand on management and leadership skills

The post holder must hold Level 3 BTEC and NVQ in Pharmacy Services Certificate or equivalent and must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.