Medicines Management Senior Assistant Technical Officer

Job summary

Are you a community dispenser looking at starting a career in hospital pharmacy. This could be the ideal career change for you.

This is a great opportunity for a Senior Assistant Technical Officer to join our dynamic and innovative Medicines Management pharmacy team supporting our discharge teams. You will be working in a very friendly and supportive pharmacy and ward team.

You must be highly organized, motivated, have excellent communication and people skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to new situations.

If you are interested in pursuing a career as a Pharmacy Technician, this post will give you an excellent foundation experience and understanding of the Medicines Management role in hospital pharmacy.

If you feel that your skills and abilities would be suited to this challenging opportunity, we welcome your application. If you don't have the NVQ level 2 then please still apply as there could be other options available for you.

Please feel free to contact me for an informal chat.

Main duties of the job

To assist in the provision of a safe and efficient Pharmacy service to the wards of Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

To assist the medicines management team both on the wards and in the dispensary to ensure that medication is supplied accurately and cost effectively. Providing medications to patients for discharge to ensure that they can take their medication easily.

To support the management of ward medicines in line with the Trust medicines optimisation policy.

We are the Medicines Management team based at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital and the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester. We are part of the wider pharmacy Clinical team that work across the hospital covering admissions, medical, surgery, respiratory, stroke & elderly care wards. We are a very friendly and supportive team and will provide excellent additional training for all those who want to progress.

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.