Job summary
Senior Paediatric Pharmacy Technician - Paediatric Intensive Care and Surgical Services
A fantastic opportunity has arisen in our Paediatric Intensive Care pharmacy team for an enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacy technician, who is looking for a new challenge to develop their career within paediatrics.
Working as part of the Paediatric Intensive Care pharmacy team at the Evelina London Children's Hospital Pharmacy, you will play a role in the safe delivery of pharmaceutical care to this group of Paediatric patients and management of high risk medications e.g. intravenous drugs. Working in a structured environment providing support to the wider team to meet key directorate targets.
If you are seeking to expand your clinical skills and help to improve patient safety, making a difference to children's care then this is your ideal job.
The post offers a chance to contribute to the continued development of pharmacy services within the children's hospital.
Closing date: 11th August 2024
Interview date: 19th August 2024
If applying, please make sure you are available to attend in person for an interview on this date as alternative dates cannot be offered.
Main duties of the job
The post is suitable for patient-focused technician with good interpersonal skills who are sensitive to the needs of the patients and their carers. You would require excellent communication and team working skills. Able to work independently and be flexible to adapt to the changing service demands meeting any set deadlines. The role is embedded in the ward teams by supporting our nursing/medical and pharmacy teams to resolve any medicines management issues.
You will be responsible for providing a safe, efficient and accurate ward-based pharmacy service for hospital inpatients by liaising closely with pharmacists, nursing and medical staff on wards.
About us
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation
The Pharmacy departments of Guys and St Thomas' provide safe and effective pharmaceutical ward and dispensary services to the many inpatients and outpatients of the Trust's many specialities
Our intensive care unit (known as PICU) cares for critically ill children, and provides support to their families. We're the lead centre for critically ill children for the south Thames region and provide a wide range of services and clinical expertise. We're also a busy cardiac unit, providing all types of heart surgery (except heart and lung transplants) and a cardiorespiratory centre
The post holder must demonstrate their commitment to upholding the Trust values, within which we carry out our roles:
Put patients first - consider the patient's needs and wishes in all that they do
Take pride in what they do - strive for highest standards on own work and challenge colleagues to do the same
Respect others - patients, visitors and colleagues. Actively give and receive feedback
Strive to be the best - in terms of patient care & teamwork
Act with integrity - maintain the privacy & dignity of patients, work with integrity and be trustworthy, be accountable for own work
Job description
Job responsibilities
Operational
- Provide a pharmaceutical Medicines Management service to patients. This includes:
- Record accurate written medication reconciliations for newly admitted and transferred patients.
- Assessing Patients own Drugs for suitability for use in the Trust.
- Communicating detailed information to patients/carers about drug doses, indications, side effects and efficacy.
- Liaising widely (e.g. GP staff, patients, carers etc.) to ensure the timely availability of patients medication.
- Reviewing and ordering patient specific medication for new and repeat items to ensure timely and cost-effective supplies using the departments MMP system.
- Reviewing MMP medications, ordering and dispensing TTO prescriptions to ensure availability of stock to ensure timely supply for patient discharge.
- Ensure all relevant medicines are transferred with the patient throughout their journey, to minimise wastage including aseptic products.
- Final check of clinically screened discharge medicines against the TTO before release to the patient.
- Participate in the dispensing and checking of controlled drugs. Ensuring appropriate storage, accuracy and record keeping is followed.
- Participating in the three monthly CD stock checks and safe and secure storage audits.
- Provide a safe and efficient supply of pharmaceutical products to patients. This may involve the:
- Dispensing and final checking of drug products and compliance aids after screening by Pharmacist.
- Working in the dispensary on a session basis, ensuring that good dispensing practices are followed. Ensure that procedures relating to good dispensing practice are followed, and encourage and maintain high standards and orderly methods of working.
- Assist in the delivery of all aspects of storage, record keeping, stock control and stock rotation on the wards, dispensary and specified Directorate.
- Responsible for the operational delivery of the medicine packs for the South Thames Retrieval Service (STRS).
- Assist in project work as required.
Stock Control
- Supervise stock and consumable management in the pharmacy on wheels (POWs)/pharmacy satellite areas, including stock checks, stock rotation, expiry date checks and relevant documentation.
- Assist with the review of ward stock lists to reduce risk and wastage. Including periodic review of the South Thames Retrieval Service medicine pack contents.
- Participate in the problem solving of incorrect stock levels, generated by stock checks and adhoc queries.
- Responsible for the management of medicine waste and medication returns. Ensuring recycling and destruction procedures are adhered to.
- Participate in the investigation and required actions of drug alerts/recalls and out of stocks.
Management and Supervision
- Assist in the supervision of pharmacy assistants, pre-registration trainee pharmacy technicians, qualified technicians, trainee pharmacists and junior pharmacists, to ensure that work is conducted to a high standard and in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures.
Management and Supervision
- Supervise Rotational Technicians, Pharmacy Assistants, Pre-registration Technicians and Pre-registration Pharmacists to ensure that work is conducted to a high standard and in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures.
Quality Management and Clinical Governance
- Ensures that the Trust and departmental Health and Safety policies and procedures are understood and adhered to by all staff working in the team.
- Assist in the collection and preparation of workload quality and financial indicators.
Training
- Participate in the education and training of multidisciplinary staff (e.g. doctors/nurses) as required.
- Undertake CPD and to attend courses in practice areas where needs are identified.
- Participate in the department performance review scheme by attending regular review sessions with the principal paediatric pharmacy technician - ward service.
- Participate in the induction and training of volunteers, pharmacy assistants, pre-registration trainee pharmacy technicians, qualified technicians, trainee pharmacist and junior pharmacists.
- Participate in the assessments and appraisals of the pharmacy assistants, pre-registration trainee pharmacy technicians and qualified technicians.
Research and Development
- Routinely gathers data for the audit of services and assists with analysis.
Other Duties
- Participate in the departmental performance review scheme by attending regular review sessions with the Principal Paediatric Pharmacy Technician Ward Services.
- Participate in the Evelina London pharmacy and paediatric intensive care pharmacy meetings and training sessions.
- Participate in the various departmental rotas, including weekend, bank holiday and late night rotas.
- Participate in any other duties requested by the pharmacy operations manager and principal paediatric pharmacy technicians.
- Work in line with trust policies and procedures.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Operational
- Provide a pharmaceutical Medicines Management service to patients. This includes:
- Record accurate written medication reconciliations for newly admitted and transferred patients.
- Assessing Patients own Drugs for suitability for use in the Trust.
- Communicating detailed information to patients/carers about drug doses, indications, side effects and efficacy.
- Liaising widely (e.g. GP staff, patients, carers etc.) to ensure the timely availability of patients medication.
- Reviewing and ordering patient specific medication for new and repeat items to ensure timely and cost-effective supplies using the departments MMP system.
- Reviewing MMP medications, ordering and dispensing TTO prescriptions to ensure availability of stock to ensure timely supply for patient discharge.
- Ensure all relevant medicines are transferred with the patient throughout their journey, to minimise wastage including aseptic products.
- Final check of clinically screened discharge medicines against the TTO before release to the patient.
- Participate in the dispensing and checking of controlled drugs. Ensuring appropriate storage, accuracy and record keeping is followed.
- Participating in the three monthly CD stock checks and safe and secure storage audits.
- Provide a safe and efficient supply of pharmaceutical products to patients. This may involve the:
- Dispensing and final checking of drug products and compliance aids after screening by Pharmacist.
- Working in the dispensary on a session basis, ensuring that good dispensing practices are followed. Ensure that procedures relating to good dispensing practice are followed, and encourage and maintain high standards and orderly methods of working.
- Assist in the delivery of all aspects of storage, record keeping, stock control and stock rotation on the wards, dispensary and specified Directorate.
- Responsible for the operational delivery of the medicine packs for the South Thames Retrieval Service (STRS).
- Assist in project work as required.
Stock Control
- Supervise stock and consumable management in the pharmacy on wheels (POWs)/pharmacy satellite areas, including stock checks, stock rotation, expiry date checks and relevant documentation.
- Assist with the review of ward stock lists to reduce risk and wastage. Including periodic review of the South Thames Retrieval Service medicine pack contents.
- Participate in the problem solving of incorrect stock levels, generated by stock checks and adhoc queries.
- Responsible for the management of medicine waste and medication returns. Ensuring recycling and destruction procedures are adhered to.
- Participate in the investigation and required actions of drug alerts/recalls and out of stocks.
Management and Supervision
- Assist in the supervision of pharmacy assistants, pre-registration trainee pharmacy technicians, qualified technicians, trainee pharmacists and junior pharmacists, to ensure that work is conducted to a high standard and in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures.
Management and Supervision
- Supervise Rotational Technicians, Pharmacy Assistants, Pre-registration Technicians and Pre-registration Pharmacists to ensure that work is conducted to a high standard and in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures.
Quality Management and Clinical Governance
- Ensures that the Trust and departmental Health and Safety policies and procedures are understood and adhered to by all staff working in the team.
- Assist in the collection and preparation of workload quality and financial indicators.
Training
- Participate in the education and training of multidisciplinary staff (e.g. doctors/nurses) as required.
- Undertake CPD and to attend courses in practice areas where needs are identified.
- Participate in the department performance review scheme by attending regular review sessions with the principal paediatric pharmacy technician - ward service.
- Participate in the induction and training of volunteers, pharmacy assistants, pre-registration trainee pharmacy technicians, qualified technicians, trainee pharmacist and junior pharmacists.
- Participate in the assessments and appraisals of the pharmacy assistants, pre-registration trainee pharmacy technicians and qualified technicians.
Research and Development
- Routinely gathers data for the audit of services and assists with analysis.
Other Duties
- Participate in the departmental performance review scheme by attending regular review sessions with the Principal Paediatric Pharmacy Technician Ward Services.
- Participate in the Evelina London pharmacy and paediatric intensive care pharmacy meetings and training sessions.
- Participate in the various departmental rotas, including weekend, bank holiday and late night rotas.
- Participate in any other duties requested by the pharmacy operations manager and principal paediatric pharmacy technicians.
- Work in line with trust policies and procedures.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered as a pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- NVQ Pharmacy services Level 3 plus an accredited underpinning knowledge
- Completion of or working towards a recognised Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) qualification
Desirable
- Practice/Educational Supervisor qualification
- Medicine Management accreditation
- Supervisory/leadership or management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Working in a busy hospital dispensary
- Medicines management experience at ward based
- Supervising and mentoring pharmacy staff
- Checking of medicines in a hospital pharmacy environment
Desirable
- Working in a children's hospital dispensary
- Supervising the day to day running of a dispensary
- Stock level management and maintenance
- Working with children or in an intensive care unit.
- Working with Epic computer system - Electronic prescribing and medicine administrations (ePMA) records
Skills
Essential
- Dispense accurately to set standards
- Counsel and give advice to patients/their carers on their/child's medications
- Final check of clinically screened prescriptions
- Accurately record patient medicine reconciliation
- Accurately assess suitability of patient's own medication
- Work independently and accurately under pressure
- Prioritise and organise routine daily tasks using own initiative
- Plan, organise and deliver, training and assessment
- Motivate self and others
- Communicate routine, more complex and sensitive information effectively using clear written and spoken English and overcome barriers to understanding, to a diverse group of staff patients and carers
- Clearly and accurately complete complex routine and non-routine documentation
- Work to set procedures
- Pharmacy computer and IT skills
- Effective customer service skills
Desirable
- Write standard operating procedures
- Using Epic computer system - Electronic prescribing and medicine administrations (ePMA) records.
- Delivering induction and training
- Undertake recruitment and selection of pharmacy staff
- Conduct appraisals /performance development reviews
- Working in multi-disciplinary teams
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered as a pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- NVQ Pharmacy services Level 3 plus an accredited underpinning knowledge
- Completion of or working towards a recognised Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT) qualification
Desirable
- Practice/Educational Supervisor qualification
- Medicine Management accreditation
- Supervisory/leadership or management qualification
Experience
Essential
- Working in a busy hospital dispensary
- Medicines management experience at ward based
- Supervising and mentoring pharmacy staff
- Checking of medicines in a hospital pharmacy environment
Desirable
- Working in a children's hospital dispensary
- Supervising the day to day running of a dispensary
- Stock level management and maintenance
- Working with children or in an intensive care unit.
- Working with Epic computer system - Electronic prescribing and medicine administrations (ePMA) records
Skills
Essential
- Dispense accurately to set standards
- Counsel and give advice to patients/their carers on their/child's medications
- Final check of clinically screened prescriptions
- Accurately record patient medicine reconciliation
- Accurately assess suitability of patient's own medication
- Work independently and accurately under pressure
- Prioritise and organise routine daily tasks using own initiative
- Plan, organise and deliver, training and assessment
- Motivate self and others
- Communicate routine, more complex and sensitive information effectively using clear written and spoken English and overcome barriers to understanding, to a diverse group of staff patients and carers
- Clearly and accurately complete complex routine and non-routine documentation
- Work to set procedures
- Pharmacy computer and IT skills
- Effective customer service skills
Desirable
- Write standard operating procedures
- Using Epic computer system - Electronic prescribing and medicine administrations (ePMA) records.
- Delivering induction and training
- Undertake recruitment and selection of pharmacy staff
- Conduct appraisals /performance development reviews
- Working in multi-disciplinary teams
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.
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).
Additional information
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).
