Specialist Pharmacy Technician

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 05 May 2025

Job summary

INTERNAL ONLY

We are looking for a proactive and dedicated Surgery Pharmacy Technician to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will support the lead Surgery pharmacist in providing high-quality care to surgical patients, ensuring efficient medication management and patient support. You will play a key role in patient counselling, stock management, and supporting the discharge lounge operations. Additionally, you will provide leadership through line management responsibilities, assist with clinical audits, and participate in service development. You will also deliver training to staff and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to improve pharmacy workflows. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, a passion for patient care, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Main duties of the job

The Surgery Pharmacy Technician will play a key role in supporting the lead Surgery pharmacist(s) by:

*Provide specialised counselling to patients newly prescribed medications, offering lifestyle guidance and support

*Serve as a liaison for the discharge lounge and support its operations

*Line management responsibilities

*Managing and updating stock lists, including fridge monitoring and controlled drugs, ensuring efficient stock management

*Assisting with clinical audits and research to drive innovation

*Deputising for the lead pharmacist in surgery meetings when necessary

*Collaborate with discharge focus groups and the pharmacy dispensary manager to enhance service development

*Delivering training to nurses, rotational pharmacy technicians and new staff on commonly prescribed medications, ensuring safe and effective patient counselling as well as pharmacy workflow processes

*Participate in dispensary, checking, late and weekend rotas. Undertake final checking as an ACPT as well as dispensing and any other dispensary-based duties as appropriate

*Future responsibilities may include support with counselling patients in the surgical pre-assessment clinic and triaging complex cases to the pharmacist

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour

Date posted

16 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£37,338 to £44,962 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

175-2526-1-PH1230

Job locations

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

Job description

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Knowledge of pharmaceutical technical procedures equivalent to degree level acquired through training and experience.
NVQ Level 3 Pharmacy Services, BTEC Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent.
Registered Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) qualification.
Medicines Reconciliation qualification.

Desirable

Expert witness and supervisor accreditation.
Leadership qualification.

Experience

Essential

Specialist knowledge of hospital pharmacy procedures and workflows.
Experience of leading a team.
Experience of embedding new ways or working within teams.
Experiences of training and supervising staff.

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Knowledge of pharmaceutical technical procedures equivalent to degree level acquired through training and experience.
NVQ Level 3 Pharmacy Services, BTEC Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent.
Registered Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) qualification.
Medicines Reconciliation qualification.

Desirable

Expert witness and supervisor accreditation.
Leadership qualification.

Experience

Essential

Specialist knowledge of hospital pharmacy procedures and workflows.
Experience of leading a team.
Experience of embedding new ways or working within teams.
Experiences of training and supervising staff.

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration

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.