Job summary
Hello!
My name is Alice Smilie I am the Operational Manager of the John Radcliffe Pharmacy. I am privileged to lead our very hardworking, friendly, and committed Dispensary team in providing a dispensary service, supplying inpatient, outpatient, and discharge medication to Patients of the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and highly motivated Registered Pharmacy Technician with a positive outlook to join our team, supporting our Dispensary & working within Governance. This candidate will need to havea positive and responsible attitude to work who can demonstrate good communication skills, team working, positivity and confidence in dealing with a changing work environment and processes and who is able to utilise their skills and experiences across all areas of the role.
Within this role you will receive full training to become an Accredited Checking Technician, and you will be trained to investigate incidents that have occurred and respond to these accordingly. allowing you to progress to band 5 on completion of these. You will have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills, working jointly with the Pharmacy Operational team to provide key co-ordinator support to the Dispensary team.
Main duties of the job
The Pharmacy Technician role is varied, and requires flexibility in your approach to work, supporting both dispensary, stores and ward based work on the John Radcliffe Hospital site. The successful applicant will be required to assist in the smooth running of the dispensary, providing co-ordinator support to the dispensary team together with our Senior Technicians, or in the absence of the Senior Technician, and at weekends. You will support the training and induction of new members of the team, pharmacy apprentices, trainee technicians and pharmacists working alongside you.
This post is ideal for a Pharmacy Technician looking to gain further experience within a hospital dispensary setting, with a keen interest in patient safety and governance issues. The candidate will be required to work jointly within the Pharmacy Operational and Governance teams in the following key areas
Providing regular dispensing/checking duties as directed by the Senior Technicians.
Assisting in training and induction of new members of staff.
Investigating incidents and errors and contributing to change in practice and staff learning
Conducting audits and reporting on findings
Supporting the Operational Team in implementing safety related projects and initiatives across all sites
Collating dispensary workload statistics and reports
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The dispensary team is a friendly and hardworking team of 28 staff ranging from band 2 Assistants through to band 7 Technicians. Many of our dispensary based Technicians later go on to become Ward based band 5 Technicians or take other roles within the wider Pharmacy team and this role is ideal for gaining that experience to progress further in your career.
This is a full-time dispensary based position, 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday, with working hours of 9:00-17:15, however flexible working options would also be considered. You will also be required to participate in weekend working on a 1:6 rota basis, bank holiday, early and late duty rotas as per rota.
If you are interested in an informal discussion about this role, we would be very happy to hear from you. You are welcome to call the number below, or to make an appointment so that we can show you around and answer your questions.
Please refer to the attached job description for further detailed information regarding the role and main responsibilities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The dispensary team is a friendly and hardworking team of 28 staff ranging from band 2 Assistants through to band 7 Technicians. Many of our dispensary based Technicians later go on to become Ward based band 5 Technicians or take other roles within the wider Pharmacy team and this role is ideal for gaining that experience to progress further in your career.
This is a full-time dispensary based position, 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday, with working hours of 9:00-17:15, however flexible working options would also be considered. You will also be required to participate in weekend working on a 1:6 rota basis, bank holiday, early and late duty rotas as per rota.
If you are interested in an informal discussion about this role, we would be very happy to hear from you. You are welcome to call the number below, or to make an appointment so that we can show you around and answer your questions.
Please refer to the attached job description for further detailed information regarding the role and main responsibilities.
Person Specification
Essential/Desirable
Essential
- Qualified Pharmacy Technician, registered with the GPhC holding an NVQ Level 3 or other relevant qualification.
- At least 1 years post qualification experience.
- Demonstrable time management, organisational, written and oral communication skills
- Accredited Checking Technician
- Familiar with principles and practices of risk management.
- Good IT skills including keyboard, databases, Excel etc
- Appropriately assertive and confident.
- Willing to travel between sites.
- Ability to teach staff of all levels.
- Responsive to direction and constructive feedback.
- Basic all round knowledge of Pharmacy Department.
- Tidy and smart appearance and adherence to dress code.
- Enthusiastic, adaptable, flexible and able to demonstrate an ability to work independently and as part of a team under pressure.
Desirable
- Uses own initiative and can work alone.
- Good all round understanding of medicines safety and the Pharmacy Service
- NVQ Assessor
- Knowledge of incident reporting system and analysing data.
- Experience of data analysis and able to interpret and present data clearly using appropriate media
Person Specification
Essential/Desirable
Essential
- Qualified Pharmacy Technician, registered with the GPhC holding an NVQ Level 3 or other relevant qualification.
- At least 1 years post qualification experience.
- Demonstrable time management, organisational, written and oral communication skills
- Accredited Checking Technician
- Familiar with principles and practices of risk management.
- Good IT skills including keyboard, databases, Excel etc
- Appropriately assertive and confident.
- Willing to travel between sites.
- Ability to teach staff of all levels.
- Responsive to direction and constructive feedback.
- Basic all round knowledge of Pharmacy Department.
- Tidy and smart appearance and adherence to dress code.
- Enthusiastic, adaptable, flexible and able to demonstrate an ability to work independently and as part of a team under pressure.
Desirable
- Uses own initiative and can work alone.
- Good all round understanding of medicines safety and the Pharmacy Service
- NVQ Assessor
- Knowledge of incident reporting system and analysing data.
- Experience of data analysis and able to interpret and present data clearly using appropriate media
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).
