Job summary
We are recruiting for a Pharmacy Technician Specialist Renal Services who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
If you an experienced Pharmacy Technician seeking a new challenge? Do you enjoy making a positive difference to patient care?
Are you excited by the opportunity to develop a new service? If so, then we have the role for you.
The Lister Hospital, Stevenage is looking for a high calibre pharmacy technician to join our expanding team. Being driven and adaptable are essential characteristics for this role as this is a unique opportunity to shape the future.
Working alongside a fantastic multidisciplinary team, the successful candidate will work closely with the renal pharmacists to develop services to the renal ward and satellite units, supporting with medicines management, Quality systems, Homecare, Cost Improvement Plans and many other exciting projects.
Continued professional development is actively supported in the pharmacy department and there will be opportunities to undertake training where applicable.
The successful candidate will also be supported to develop their leadership and management skills. If this sounds like the opportunity for you, please get in touch with us!
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
To deliver a high quality and comprehensive medicines management service to renal patients on all aspects of their pharmaceutical care
To participate and assist in the development of the medicines management service on the renal wards
To deliver and contribute to the education and training strategy for Trust wide staff in relation to medicines safety.
To work with the pharmacy senior management team to develop innovative and forward thinking service projects to improve the medicines management services provided to our patients.
To co-ordinate, supervise, deliver and contribute to the medicines safety audit for renal wards/areas.
To support the Medicines Management team with clinical work at ward level.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent and BTEC in Pharmaceutical science or equivalent
- Registered with GPhC as a technician
- Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT)
- Current, relevant knowledge of hospital pharmacy procedures acquired though training, experience and knowledge
- Certificate in Medicines Management
- Leadership Course
Previous Experience
Essential
- Minumum 2 to 3 years post qualification ward based hospital experience
- Ability to work within clearly defined occupational polices and standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Experience of medication counselling and has had regular contact with patients
- Experience in developing and implementing SOPs
- Proven ability to manage own workload and theworkload of others, delegating supervision activities as appropriate
- Experience of assessing the work of others, feeding back appropriately and ensuring staff are working within defined SOPs
- Knowledge and experience of recording data, including sensitive information, on pharmacy computerised data record systems
- Experience of dispensing drugs for patients, clients in specialist area, providing advice to patients, carers
- Experience in organising daily activities of staff within a team
- Experience of conducting and reporting project & audit work
- Experience of working with a wide range of other health care professionals
- Experience of providing training
Desirable
- Training staff
- Audit participation
- Experience in developing and implementing SOPs
- Experience of recruitment and selection processes
- Experience of communicating with a broad range of stakeholders
Skills
Essential
- Ability to effectively teach and deliver specialist training to Pharmacy staff
- Proven ability to undertake audit/project
- Proven presentation skills
- Proven time management skills
- Organisational skills
- Proven communication skills
- Proven ability to write a procedure /guidelines
- Good team player
- Able to use initiative
- Assertive
- IT skills
- Supervisory skills
- Awareness of barriers to understanding and ability to implement tools to overcome barriers
- Able to plan ongoing training and assessment in pharmacy procedures
- Ability to motivate and engage all levels of staff
- Able to communicate at all levels
Desirable
- Flexible
- Creative thinker
- Supervisory skills
- Ability to write a procedure /guidelines
Knowledge
Essential
- Ward based knowledge
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to create documents and spreadsheets and extract information
- Dispensing
- Pharmaceutical Law
- Pharmaceutical Practice
- Hospital Pharmacy Practice
- Good clinical knowledge
- Medicines management processes
- Drug Distribution
- Patient Counselling
- CPD portfolio
- Working Knowledge of Pharmacy computer, including WellSky, robot systems, Lorenzo
Desirable
- Excel Spreadsheets, minimum intermediate level
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential
- NVQ Level 3 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent and BTEC in Pharmaceutical science or equivalent
- Registered with GPhC as a technician
- Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT)
- Current, relevant knowledge of hospital pharmacy procedures acquired though training, experience and knowledge
- Certificate in Medicines Management
- Leadership Course
Previous Experience
Essential
- Minumum 2 to 3 years post qualification ward based hospital experience
- Ability to work within clearly defined occupational polices and standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Experience of medication counselling and has had regular contact with patients
- Experience in developing and implementing SOPs
- Proven ability to manage own workload and theworkload of others, delegating supervision activities as appropriate
- Experience of assessing the work of others, feeding back appropriately and ensuring staff are working within defined SOPs
- Knowledge and experience of recording data, including sensitive information, on pharmacy computerised data record systems
- Experience of dispensing drugs for patients, clients in specialist area, providing advice to patients, carers
- Experience in organising daily activities of staff within a team
- Experience of conducting and reporting project & audit work
- Experience of working with a wide range of other health care professionals
- Experience of providing training
Desirable
- Training staff
- Audit participation
- Experience in developing and implementing SOPs
- Experience of recruitment and selection processes
- Experience of communicating with a broad range of stakeholders
Skills
Essential
- Ability to effectively teach and deliver specialist training to Pharmacy staff
- Proven ability to undertake audit/project
- Proven presentation skills
- Proven time management skills
- Organisational skills
- Proven communication skills
- Proven ability to write a procedure /guidelines
- Good team player
- Able to use initiative
- Assertive
- IT skills
- Supervisory skills
- Awareness of barriers to understanding and ability to implement tools to overcome barriers
- Able to plan ongoing training and assessment in pharmacy procedures
- Ability to motivate and engage all levels of staff
- Able to communicate at all levels
Desirable
- Flexible
- Creative thinker
- Supervisory skills
- Ability to write a procedure /guidelines
Knowledge
Essential
- Ward based knowledge
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to create documents and spreadsheets and extract information
- Dispensing
- Pharmaceutical Law
- Pharmaceutical Practice
- Hospital Pharmacy Practice
- Good clinical knowledge
- Medicines management processes
- Drug Distribution
- Patient Counselling
- CPD portfolio
- Working Knowledge of Pharmacy computer, including WellSky, robot systems, Lorenzo
Desirable
- Excel Spreadsheets, minimum intermediate level
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.
UK Registration
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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