Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for you to work with the pharmacy team based at St Nicholas Hospital (Gosforth) to have a role in direct patient care with opportunities to develop your clinical knowledge and skills.
We welcome applications from registered Pharmacy Technician colleagues or those Pre-Registration Trainee Pharmacy Technicians who are due to qualify before April 2025 working in all sectors of the profession. Prior experience working in mental health is not required as a comprehensive programme of training and clinical supervision will be provided.
We provide pharmacy and medicines optimisation services to all of our mental health, learning disability and neuro-rehabilitation inpatient areas, as well as to community and crisis teams. Our Pharmacy staff are highly regarded as valued members of the multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
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The main duties of the role will be:
o Medicines reconciliation and review on admission.
o Providing support and information to patients and carers to assist with the management of their medicines.
o Optimising medicines, taking a holistic view of both mental and physical healthcare needs.
o Providing physical health and wellbeing advice to patients, carers and staff.
o Discharge planning, liaison with patients, carers, community teams and pharmacies.
Operational support to the main dispensary at SNH by performing regular accuracy checking slots.
About us
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
The North East of England and Cumbria boasts some of Britain's most beautiful scenery, coastline and national parks. It offers affordable house prices, good connectivity and train links with some major cities. It can offer a fantastic quality of life and working for our Trust promotes a great work life balance. We have bases in many beautiful places which can give our staff the opportunity to explore some of these surrounding areas.
As a department, we are committed to developing and supporting our staff to achieve the maximum they can from their career, whilst delivering outstanding patient centred care.
To find out more about our department and see what our team has to say you can watch our YouTube video https://youtu.be/JgVFF1jMsuY
Job description
Job responsibilities
Applicants must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
For more information please contact: James Gray, Specialist Technician, Clinical Services St Nicholas Hospital (Central) (james.gray@cntw.nhs.uk) or Lorraine Woodhouse, Specialist Technician, Clinical Services Hopewood Park Hospital (South) (lorraine.woodhouse@cntw.nhs.uk).
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 19th November 2024
Closing date : 3rd December 2024
We welcome your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Applicants must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
For more information please contact: James Gray, Specialist Technician, Clinical Services St Nicholas Hospital (Central) (james.gray@cntw.nhs.uk) or Lorraine Woodhouse, Specialist Technician, Clinical Services Hopewood Park Hospital (South) (lorraine.woodhouse@cntw.nhs.uk).
Please find attached job description for full details.
Advertising date : 19th November 2024
Closing date : 3rd December 2024
We welcome your application.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Qualified Pharmacy Technician (NVQ3/BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences) with post qualification experience
Desirable
- Accredited accuracy checking technician
Skills & Competencies
Essential
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal
- Manipulation skills for dispensing
- Accurate and consistent in work application
- Good numeracy and literacy skills including; simple calculations, percentages, decimal, fractions
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Proven ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
- Current experience of dispensing medicines and working with patients
- Experience and knowledge of good clinical practice and how this applies to clinical trial medicines
Desirable
- Experience of hospital pharmacy
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Qualified Pharmacy Technician (NVQ3/BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences) with post qualification experience
Desirable
- Accredited accuracy checking technician
Skills & Competencies
Essential
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal
- Manipulation skills for dispensing
- Accurate and consistent in work application
- Good numeracy and literacy skills including; simple calculations, percentages, decimal, fractions
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Proven ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
- Current experience of dispensing medicines and working with patients
- Experience and knowledge of good clinical practice and how this applies to clinical trial medicines
Desirable
- Experience of hospital pharmacy
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
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).
