Job summary
Lead Pharmacy Technician (Medicines Value) - Secondment 6 months - Internal Only
We are looking for an experienced Senior Lead Pharmacy Technician to join our Senior Pharmacy Leadership team as the Senior Lead Pharmacy Technician for Medicines Value. This is a new and exciting opportunity and will be key in supporting the Trust and department's delivery of the Cost Improvement Programme.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will work closely with other senior leads to co-ordinate medicines value workstreams and help drive forward locally identified priorities.
- You must have significant post qualification experience, be assertive and have a passion for best value medicines procurement and cost saving.
- You must possess excellent IT and data analysis skills.
- It is essential that you can work accurately and quickly under pressure and be able to prioritise your workload.
About us
Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our values:Compassionate,Aspirational,Resourceful,Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details on the Job role, please refer to the Job description and person specification attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details on the Job role, please refer to the Job description and person specification attached.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registration with the GPhC
- Knowledge and skills equivalent to post graduate diploma level, specifically to include a sound knowledge of pharmacy Operational issues.
- Proven track record of managing teams to high performance levels and through change.
- Currently working within the RBFT as a Senior Technician managing a team/section
- Leadership/Management qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Member of APTUK
- NVQ A1 workplace assessor award
- ECDL qualification
- Project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE) or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification hospital pharmacy practice
- Proven effective management of a team
- Significant experience of working in healthcare in a range of settings and roles
- Proven track record of delivering change in practice to short deadlines and to a high standard
- Experience of service delivery in a service dealing directly with patients, including demonstrable effective customer care services
- Experience of delivering cost savings
- Experience of managing staff, including recruitment, appraisal and staff development
- Experience of working with clinical areas across the trust to deliver improvements and financial savings
Desirable
- Involvement in a major change project at organisation or inter organisation level
- Formal financial training
- Experience of leading on business plan developments with deliverable outcomes
- Budget responsibilities
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of all aspects of hospital pharmacy services, including dispensary, distribution, purchasing, homecare and aseptic services
- Proven experience of applying NHS strategy to operational management and good understanding of NHS management and strategy
- Knowledge of budgets and Trust financial systems
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate highly complex information, both verbally and in writing to senior managers on all aspects of pharmacy practice
- Demonstrable analytical skills to assimilate complex information and present detailed reports for senior managers in the organisation
- Demonstrable ability to initiate and manage audits and project work.
- Demonstrable leadership ability and motivational, inspirational and visionary leadership style
- Demonstrable complex computer and IT skills, including email, word processing, spreadsheets, accurate data entry
- Proven negotiating and influencing skills and ability to deal with conflict and complaints
- Proven ability to contribute to business planning and development of action plans.
- Proven ability in proposing, developing and writing departmental and Trust policies
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Registration with the GPhC
- Knowledge and skills equivalent to post graduate diploma level, specifically to include a sound knowledge of pharmacy Operational issues.
- Proven track record of managing teams to high performance levels and through change.
- Currently working within the RBFT as a Senior Technician managing a team/section
- Leadership/Management qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Member of APTUK
- NVQ A1 workplace assessor award
- ECDL qualification
- Project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE) or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification hospital pharmacy practice
- Proven effective management of a team
- Significant experience of working in healthcare in a range of settings and roles
- Proven track record of delivering change in practice to short deadlines and to a high standard
- Experience of service delivery in a service dealing directly with patients, including demonstrable effective customer care services
- Experience of delivering cost savings
- Experience of managing staff, including recruitment, appraisal and staff development
- Experience of working with clinical areas across the trust to deliver improvements and financial savings
Desirable
- Involvement in a major change project at organisation or inter organisation level
- Formal financial training
- Experience of leading on business plan developments with deliverable outcomes
- Budget responsibilities
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of all aspects of hospital pharmacy services, including dispensary, distribution, purchasing, homecare and aseptic services
- Proven experience of applying NHS strategy to operational management and good understanding of NHS management and strategy
- Knowledge of budgets and Trust financial systems
Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate highly complex information, both verbally and in writing to senior managers on all aspects of pharmacy practice
- Demonstrable analytical skills to assimilate complex information and present detailed reports for senior managers in the organisation
- Demonstrable ability to initiate and manage audits and project work.
- Demonstrable leadership ability and motivational, inspirational and visionary leadership style
- Demonstrable complex computer and IT skills, including email, word processing, spreadsheets, accurate data entry
- Proven negotiating and influencing skills and ability to deal with conflict and complaints
- Proven ability to contribute to business planning and development of action plans.
- Proven ability in proposing, developing and writing departmental and Trust policies
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
