Senior Pharmacy Technician

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Full-time

Are you an experienced Pharmacy Technician looking for the next step to progress your career? Are you interested in a post that has variety and can use and enhance your analytical, organisation and leadership skills to shape continuous learning and improvement in a progressively challenging area of medicines governance and safety.

We have an opportunity for you!

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and motivated technician with wide ranging knowledge and skills of pharmacy processes to join Medicines Governance/Safety/Formulary and Medicines Information Team at The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust (TRFT). You will work closely with pharmacy teams and trust teams to ensure that lessons are learnt, risks are minimised, procedures are developed, and are continually monitored to deliver safe, effective, and timely patient care.

Medicines Safety and Improvement is the teams absolute priority. In joining you would play an important role in delivering our department and organisation safety and governance priorities.

There is a structured training plan to support your development.

Main duties of the job

We are committed to keeping our patients safe when we use medicines and deliver this commitment through medication committees: Pharmacy Governance, Medicine Optimisation, Medication Operational and Medication Safety Committee.

You will work with and support the Medication Safety Officer and be an integral part of the team supporting the pharmacy and medicines governance remit, review medication incidents, undertake risk assessments, conduct audits and develop and implement safe medication practices in developing a Trust wide culture for safe use of medicines.

You will act as a role model for junior staff and assist in education and training initiatives. You will have opportunities to undertake relevant courses to support your continued professional development.

About us

The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust is a combined acute and community Trust serving a population of over 260,000 with over 4,500 staff. Our vision is to always act the right way and be proud to provide exceptional healthcare to the communities of Rotherham. We are working successfully with partners across South Yorkshire as part of the Integrated Care Board where we are leading and collaborating in several key work streams and service areas, including workforce development. We combine our patient first approach with innovation and care against a backdrop of system working, as encapsulated in our Trust values

AMBITIOUS - We set high standards for the services we deliver. We aim to be an outstanding Trust and we are enthusiastic about delivering excellent health care for our patients.

CARING - We embrace the importance of giving the highest possible quality of care for our patients. We also care for each other as colleagues and for the community, our resources, our environment and our future.

TOGETHER - We value the importance of working together with patients, carers and families to ensure that we provide high quality patient centred care. We are committed to working with partners and stakeholders across Rotherham, South Yorkshire and Bassetlaw to develop sustainable services for the population we serve. Getting the right leaders in the Trust is critical to achieving.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, for both our patients and our workforce.

Date posted

17 July 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

C9165-24-02-039b

Job locations

The Rotherham Nhs Foundation Trust

Moorgate Road

Rotherham

South Yorkshire

S60 2UD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role and responsibilities

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role and responsibilities

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Demonstrable experience as a senior Pharmacy Technician.
Experience of the Datix (or equivalent) incident reporting system
Experience of working in Pharmacy.
Experience of co-ordinating multiple complex projects/workstreams

knowledge

Essential

Maintain own knowledge base and remain up to date with current issues by undertaking continual professional development
Excellent understanding of hospital pharmacy
Demonstrable knowledge of Pharmacy data and information systems
Ability and confidence to counsel patients on complex medicines use

Desirable

Working knowledge of Health and Social care roles, responsibilities, priorities and strategic direction.

Registration

Essential

Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacy Technician

Qualifications

Essential

NVQ Pharmacy Services / BTEC Pharmaceutical Sciences Level 3 (or equivalent)
Accredited Accuracy Checking Accreditation

Desirable

Level 3 Management Course in First Line Management (or equivalent)
Risk Management course (or equivalent)
NVQ Assessor (A1 course)
Medicines Optimisation (or equivalent) training

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Demonstrable experience as a senior Pharmacy Technician.
Experience of the Datix (or equivalent) incident reporting system
Experience of working in Pharmacy.
Experience of co-ordinating multiple complex projects/workstreams

knowledge

Essential

Maintain own knowledge base and remain up to date with current issues by undertaking continual professional development
Excellent understanding of hospital pharmacy
Demonstrable knowledge of Pharmacy data and information systems
Ability and confidence to counsel patients on complex medicines use

Desirable

Working knowledge of Health and Social care roles, responsibilities, priorities and strategic direction.

Registration

Essential

Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacy Technician

Qualifications

Essential

NVQ Pharmacy Services / BTEC Pharmaceutical Sciences Level 3 (or equivalent)
Accredited Accuracy Checking Accreditation

Desirable

Level 3 Management Course in First Line Management (or equivalent)
Risk Management course (or equivalent)
NVQ Assessor (A1 course)
Medicines Optimisation (or equivalent) training

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).