Pharmacy Technician - Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom - University Hospital of North Midlands

Description

Senior Clinical Pharmacy Technician Step Up Opportunity
Band 4/5 dependant upon experience
Main area Pharmacy Grade Band 4/5 dependant upon experience

Contract Permanent:
An average of 150 hours (pro rata), over a 4 week rota, to include late shifts and weekend working Hours
Full time
Part time
An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and dedicated Pharmacy Technician to join our clinical pharmacy team. This post is a band 4/5 Senior Clinical Pharmacy Technician development opportunity.

Depending on the initial skill set and experience of the candidate they will either be employed directly at band 5 level or will complete relevant training at band 4 level.

Upon successful completion of the training and evaluation, the post holder will automatically become Senior Clinical Pharmacy Technician (band 5).

Identifying patients at a higher clinical risk, ensuring that they are prioritised

You will be a key member of the clinical pharmacy team serving a range of specialities across the hospital site.

The role will also include dispensary based duties including dispensing and checking inpatient and discharge prescriptions for patients within agreed turnaround times.

We offer a professionally rewarding career path with the opportunity for personal development along the way, in addition to the many other benefits you would expect from working in the NHS.

We serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research.

Our 11,000 strong workforce provide emergency treatment, planned operations and medical care from Royal Stoke University Hospital and County Hospital in Stafford.

We have put together a wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their potential.

Our goal is to be a world-class centre of achievement, where patients receive the highest standards of care and the best people come to learn, work and research.

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff is really important to us.

We offer a range of options for our staff to help maintain a good work-life balance including full time, part time hours and bank hours.

We are also committed to offering flexible working wherever we can and where relevant to the role and the service, agile working.

BTEC Level 3 Diploma in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians or equivalent nationally recognised qualification which meets requirements for registration with the GPhC
Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Recent experience of working within a pharmacy department as a Pharmacy Technician.
Patient counselling skills – pleasant professional and caring manner, knowledge of the use of medicines and advising patients and assessing pharmaceutical care needs
Experience of the use of hospital IT systems e.g. patient management, Discharge Medicines system and pharmacy automation
Understanding of current Pharmacy and NHS challenges and issues.
Computer Literate with good general keyboard skills for using pharmacy computer systems.
Flexible approach to work.
Ability to mentor and train junior staff enabling them to achieve their goals.
Supervisory skills to supervise Pharmacist Assistants, Students, Pre-Registration Students, Bank staff, Rotational Pharmacy Technicians.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation.

Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies
We work with 'trac.
We actively encourage applications from the Armed Forces community .
If you would like support completing an application form, please contact the recruitment department on where one of our trained assistants will be able to help