Band 5 Civilian Pharmacy Technician

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

The closing date is 23 October 2024

Job summary

Here at Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC), we are inclusive and dedicated, working to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel!

We are looking to recruit a hard working, organised and enthusiastic Band 5 Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly team here at Larkhill Garrison, Salisbury.

The position offers 37.5 hours per week. The salary will be pro rata where the part time hours are undertaken and applications for part time or job share to cover these hours are welcome.

Does this sound like the role for you? If so, we would love to hear from you!

Benefits Include:

Free Parking
Access to NHS Pension
A Culture Encouraging Inclusion and Diversity
Access to a Gym

Main duties of the job

Larkhill is a large medical practice supporting a patient population in excess of 4500. The successful candidate will be working in a fast pace, demanding workload, and high risk environment.

The Post Holder will work collaboratively with Clinical Staff and the practice manager to ensure the implementation of the Medical Facility aims and objectives in accordance with Ministry of Defence (MOD) and Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) policies and procedures. You will be expected to be proactive in identifying areas that could be changed and initiating necessary improvements.

About us

Our success depends on our people, our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.

Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.

In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.

If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.

Date posted

25 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time) * Pay award pending

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share

Reference number

K0003-24-0207

Job locations

Larkhill Garrison

Larkhill

Salisbury

Wiltshire

SP4 8QY

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:

Providing a pharmacy dispensing service for the medical facility and across.
Dispensing all medicines iaw current regulations and prescribed by an authorised prescriber.
Being the Drug Safety Notice Lead, to inform and publish all notices to patients and personnel.
Holding copies of specimen signatures of all authorised prescribers.
Ordering, receipting, accounting and disposing for all medicines and dispensary items through use of the Contract Purchasing & Finance (CP&F) system.

Please pay particular attention to the attached Job Description and Person Specification, which outlines the role requirements in further detail.

Selection Process Details

The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

There will be no reimbursement for any travel for interview.

The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested against the following Technical Skills:

NHS CORE

NHSC1 Communication
NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
NHSC4 Service Improvement
NHSC5 Quality

NHS GENERAL

NHS G1 Learning & Development
NHS G3 Procurement & Commissioning
NHS G4 Financial Management

NHS HEALTH & WELLBEING

HWB10 Products

NHS INFORMATION & KNOWLEDGE

NHS IK1 Importation Processing
NHS IK3 Knowledge and Information Resources

Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form.

Please copy & paste the link below into a web browser this will take you to our Youtube channel for advice on preparing your best responses with some hints and tips on answering behaviour based questions. Hints and tips such as: Your behaviours can be based on situations from work, volunteering or home; match your situation to the behaviour requested and how to use your 250-word limit.

https://www.youtube.com/@DMS_MilMed

Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.

Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.

All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.

If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Please note that evidence of your vaccination is not a proof of your immunity, but your serology levels will be required. Failure to provide sufficient evidence may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.

We encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply. Please see the attached further information document for full details.

There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, Making the Civil Service a Great Place to Work for Veterans - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.