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Job Details
- Senior Pharmacy Homecare Technician
- Base site - Lincoln County Hospital
- Band 6 (£35,392 - £42,618)
- 37.5 hours per week (post equaling 1 WTE)
- 08:45 - 17:15 Mon - Fri. 09:30-13:15 Sat, Sun and bank holidays
- Contract type - Permanent
Applications are invited for the post of Senior Homecare Pharmacy Technician. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated pharmacy technician to join the well established homecare team at United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT). You will work closely with the lead pharmacist to develop homecare services at the Trust. You will regularly liaise with key stakeholders including finance, homecare companies, internal pharmacy colleagues, clinical teams and commissioners around the management of homecare. The homecare services at ULHT has grown significantly in the past several years serving over 3000 patients and we are looking for an experienced senior technician to continue to grow this.
Main duties of the job
The post will be based at Lincoln County Hospital but the successful applicant may need to travel to other sites within the Trust. The successful applicant will be expected to participate in the existing weekend and bank holiday rota within the pharmacy department.
You will need to have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be confident speaking to patients, nursing staff, prescribers and other non pharmacy staff. You will need to have experience working as a pharmacy technician in a hospital setting and have knowledge of homecare medicines services. Experience of using pharmacy specific computer systems such as Ascribe or JAC is desirable.
About us
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details regarding the job role please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details regarding the job role please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical technical procedures acquired through training, NVQ3, BTEC in pharmaceutical science or equivalent plus other additional training for checking dispensed prescriptions, supervising a technical area within the pharmacy to degree or equivalent level.
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- 5 GCSE grade C, including Maths and English Language or equivalent Diploma level qualification or qualified by suitable experience.
Desirable
- Management qualification.
Previous Experience
Essential
- Significant hospital pharmacy experience.
- Excellent IT / Keyboard Skills.
- Working knowledge of Excel.
- Experience of working with and interpreting data.
Desirable
- Training ability.
- Homecare experience.
- Experience of database use.
- Supervisory experience.
Evidence of Particular: - Knowledge - Skills - Aptitudes
Essential
- Knowledge within a specialism.
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical technical procedures.
- Knowledge of pharmacy homecare services and high cost drugs.
- Knowledge of medicines commissioning.
- Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework:
Desirable
- Report writing skills
- Previous experience of working with high cost drugs and commissioning
Specific Requirements
Essential
- Adaptable to changing workload requirements.
- Ability to work weekends / bank holidays
- Ability to be able to travel between hospital sites.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical technical procedures acquired through training, NVQ3, BTEC in pharmaceutical science or equivalent plus other additional training for checking dispensed prescriptions, supervising a technical area within the pharmacy to degree or equivalent level.
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- 5 GCSE grade C, including Maths and English Language or equivalent Diploma level qualification or qualified by suitable experience.
Desirable
- Management qualification.
Previous Experience
Essential
- Significant hospital pharmacy experience.
- Excellent IT / Keyboard Skills.
- Working knowledge of Excel.
- Experience of working with and interpreting data.
Desirable
- Training ability.
- Homecare experience.
- Experience of database use.
- Supervisory experience.
Evidence of Particular: - Knowledge - Skills - Aptitudes
Essential
- Knowledge within a specialism.
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical technical procedures.
- Knowledge of pharmacy homecare services and high cost drugs.
- Knowledge of medicines commissioning.
- Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework:
Desirable
- Report writing skills
- Previous experience of working with high cost drugs and commissioning
Specific Requirements
Essential
- Adaptable to changing workload requirements.
- Ability to work weekends / bank holidays
- Ability to be able to travel between hospital sites.
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).
