Job summary
This exciting new fellowship post provides you with a one-year fixed term opportunity to work across the Chief Pharmaceutical Officers Office and Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) as our first national pharmacy technician fellow.
You will have the opportunity to develop strong networks, your strategic thinking and undertake a leadership programme. We will ensure that you link in with Fellows on other schemes so that you can establish peer networks and really embrace the opportunities of being on a fellowship.
Putting all learning and experiences into practice will be a key element of this fellowship and examples of areas you will lead on are included in the job description and specification.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an individual who is ready to work in a new way, providing professional leadership and advice relating to where pharmacy technicians can add value to national healthcare priorities linked to patient safety, medicines optimisation, digitalisation and pharmacy workforce training. You do not need to be subject matter expert in all those areas.
We welcome applications from experienced pharmacy technicians from any sector of healthcare. Your personal attributes and skills will be critical to what you achieve professionally and personally from the fellowship.
About us
The post is within the Medicines Use and Safety team at SPS who are hosted by Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Whilst some of the work will be undertaken remotely, you will be required to travel and spend some time in the NHS England's office in Waterloo, London. Working arrangements will be discussed at interview and we support flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role offers an unparalleled opportunity to develop a range of skills at a national level including strategic leadership and management, policy development, project management, research and analysis, communications, and collaboration. This 12-month national fellowship is hosted within the Medicines Use & Safety (MUS)Team in SPS.
The national fellow pharmacy technician will lead on key projects which contribute to national healthcare priorities around patient safety, medicines optimisation, digitalisation, and pharmacy workforce training.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role offers an unparalleled opportunity to develop a range of skills at a national level including strategic leadership and management, policy development, project management, research and analysis, communications, and collaboration. This 12-month national fellowship is hosted within the Medicines Use & Safety (MUS)Team in SPS.
The national fellow pharmacy technician will lead on key projects which contribute to national healthcare priorities around patient safety, medicines optimisation, digitalisation, and pharmacy workforce training.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma in Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians or a qualification listed by the General Pharmaceutical Council pre 2017 standards
- Registered as a pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Maintain fitness to practice via GPhC revalidation requirements
- Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
Desirable
- Member of relevant professional body
- Practice or Education Supervisor/Assessor/IV education qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration experience in more than one sector
- Significant experience of managing a service or staff at a senior level
- Demonstrates clear professional leadership aspirations for future leadership and career development
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working
- Demonstrates an understanding of NHS structures, service provision, regulation and healthcare politics.
- Demonstrates understanding of the basic principles of audit, clinical risk management,evidence based practice, patient safety, and clinical QI initiatives
Desirable
- Proven track record of analysing highly complex data with interpretation and comparison of options to groups where professional opinion differs.
- Published or presented at national forum
- Supported the education and training of team members
Skills
Essential
- Excellent leadership skills with evidence of being an effective team player
- Excellent networking and influencing skills
- Advanced reasoning skills. Able to make decisions and solves problems creatively in the absence of recognised guidance
- Reflects on past performance and applies learning to current practice.
- Able to perform at a high level in the face of uncertainty and can recognise priorities among a range of activities
- Highly developed skills in communicating and influencing service users and multi-professional audiences at local, regional or national level (oral, written and other media) including excellent presentation skills
- Excellent interpersonal and managerial skills. Able to manage and resolve conflict and facilitate discussion in complex or challenging situations
- Demonstrates tact, empathy and diplomacy in dealing with and communicating sensitive information
- Highly developed IT skills, Microsoft Office, email and internet programs
- Demonstrates record of completing projects to time. Able to work under pressure and to deadlines
Planning and change management
Essential
- Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances.
- Ability to lead and collaborate with a team or group of stakeholders to deliver a change in service delivery that delivers improved patient care, efficiency and productivity.
- Ability to deliver results through managing or facilitating others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility.
Research and audit
Essential
- Coordinates, undertakes and supports medication safety audits and research.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Diploma in Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians or a qualification listed by the General Pharmaceutical Council pre 2017 standards
- Registered as a pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Maintain fitness to practice via GPhC revalidation requirements
- Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master's level equivalent.
Desirable
- Member of relevant professional body
- Practice or Education Supervisor/Assessor/IV education qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Significant post registration experience in more than one sector
- Significant experience of managing a service or staff at a senior level
- Demonstrates clear professional leadership aspirations for future leadership and career development
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working
- Demonstrates an understanding of NHS structures, service provision, regulation and healthcare politics.
- Demonstrates understanding of the basic principles of audit, clinical risk management,evidence based practice, patient safety, and clinical QI initiatives
Desirable
- Proven track record of analysing highly complex data with interpretation and comparison of options to groups where professional opinion differs.
- Published or presented at national forum
- Supported the education and training of team members
Skills
Essential
- Excellent leadership skills with evidence of being an effective team player
- Excellent networking and influencing skills
- Advanced reasoning skills. Able to make decisions and solves problems creatively in the absence of recognised guidance
- Reflects on past performance and applies learning to current practice.
- Able to perform at a high level in the face of uncertainty and can recognise priorities among a range of activities
- Highly developed skills in communicating and influencing service users and multi-professional audiences at local, regional or national level (oral, written and other media) including excellent presentation skills
- Excellent interpersonal and managerial skills. Able to manage and resolve conflict and facilitate discussion in complex or challenging situations
- Demonstrates tact, empathy and diplomacy in dealing with and communicating sensitive information
- Highly developed IT skills, Microsoft Office, email and internet programs
- Demonstrates record of completing projects to time. Able to work under pressure and to deadlines
Planning and change management
Essential
- Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances.
- Ability to lead and collaborate with a team or group of stakeholders to deliver a change in service delivery that delivers improved patient care, efficiency and productivity.
- Ability to deliver results through managing or facilitating others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility.
Research and audit
Essential
- Coordinates, undertakes and supports medication safety audits and research.
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).
