Band 5 Senior Pharmacy Technician Homecare services (Maternity Cover)

Job responsibilities

• Support in the organising of technical and support staff providing Pharmacy Homecare Services. Prioritise and schedule workload so all deadlines are met in accordance with associated service monitors and work instructions.
• Support the recruitment of staff and work with the Lead Pharmacist for Homecare to ensure technical and support staff in the Pharmacy Homecare team are assigned and complete duties efficiently to meet service and staff development needs.
• Support and assist the Lead technician for Homecare and other senior staff to develop and maintain contract management with homecare providers and quality management systems for the technical aspects of the Pharmacy Homecare service including preparation, review and auditing of work instructions, quality monitoring, investigating complaints and reporting to pharmacy management.
• Contribute to the development of homecare service specifications and creation, design, and maintenance of work instructions within area of responsibility ensuring safe systems of work and compliance with Health and Safety at Work Act, RPS and NHS Guidance
• Promote awareness of homecare medicines services and provide advice and guidance on all aspects of these services to the wider pharmacy team, clinical teams and other stakeholders.
• Support and assist the Lead Technician for Homecare and other senior staff to develop and maintain competency-based training packages within area of responsibility.
• Provide staff training and assessment using competency-based training packages.
• Work with the Lead Homecare Technician and Lead Homecare Pharmacist to implement and co-ordinate new homecare services and to develop new opportunities for homecare services.
• Maintain own competency of previously accredited packages whilst contributing to the supervision of pharmacy technical workforce, providing help and advice to staff at all levels by analysing and responding to problem situations
• Contribute to the pharmacy technician workforce through participation in weekend and bank holiday working as per the rota
• Ensure that prices for homecare medicines and services are accurate and up to date and reflect NHS contract prices and NICE commercial agreements so that best use is made of NHS resources.
• Ensure that the receipting and invoicing of Homecare medicines orders is prompt and timely, including overseeing and contributing to the resolution of invoice queries and payment delays
• Participate in recognised national or internal training packages as identified through appraisal to meet the needs of the service
• Undertakes Trust essential training in accordance to Trust timetables

Qualifications

Essential

• Possess BTEC (pharmaceutical science) or recognised equivalent and/or NVQ level 3 (pharmaceutical science)
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Nationally Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) Qualification

Desirable

• Formal management qualifications e.g. PS, NVQ, A1 Assessor or Medicines Management

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience in supervising and training staff
• Experience of procurement process and practice including management of invoicing and payment activities
• Demonstrable experience in developing and writing work instructions and training packages
• Implementing change/service development
• Interaction with other Health Care Professionals
• Implementation of working with policies and procedures such as HR Policies, IPR, Sickness/Absence and Recruitment

Desirable

• Experience of managing a small section of a service
• Demonstrable experience of managing staff and a technical service within a hospital setting
• Dealing with challenging and emotional behaviour
• Evaluation of a service
• Management of other team members including IPR and objective setting
• Recruitment selection of other technical staff
• Experience of training other members of Pharmacy
• Specialised dispensing and associated administration
• Problem solving with other Health Professionals
• Acting as a mentor to junior staff
• Rostering staff

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Good knowledge of Quality Systems Management and pharmaceutical quality assurance and control
• Direction, control and supervision of pharmacy and support staff
• Track record of operational planning of technical services
• Track record of staff appraisal and development
• Negotiation skills
• A good knowledge of all aspects of GPhC Standards and Quality and their application to hospital pharmacy
• Good communication skills and clear, spoken English
• Competent in keyboard skills ability to use Microsoft Office or equivalent
• Good organisational and leadership skills development (CPD)
• Skilled in delivering training
• Able to write training packages
• Ability to plan and complete tasks to a deadline

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).