Senior Pharmacy Technician

1 week ago


Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for an innovative and enthusiastic pharmacy technician to work within of our established clinical pharmacy technician team, supporting the delivery and development of our medicine's management service.

The Trust is opening a new Kent and Medway Orthopaedic Centre in September - this will be a new 'Super-Green' building housing three laminar flow theatres, a 14-bed inpatient ward and a 10-bed day case ward. This unit will help to expand delivery of orthopaedic surgery across Kent, Medway and East Sussex

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The successful post holder will work in this new unit as part of our clinical service and across our other wards. Other specialities on site include; admissions, hyper-acute stroke unit, respiratory medicine, cardiology, elective surgery, ITU and frailty. Daily duties will include delivering a high-quality clinical service to these specialist areas.

You must be up to date with current changes in the NHS especially with respect to medicines optimisation, as this is a key role in the delivery of current and future clinical ward services. The role will include developing medicines optimisation at ward level, ward-based discharge and dispensing, informing patients about their medicines and developing new ways of working to help prevent admissions and re-admissions.

Main duties of the job

You will be confident about training and will strive for excellence in the training provided within clinical services. You will work with supporting the chief pharmacy technicians in medicines management and education and training, in the delivery of training programs, for pharmacy technician career progression within clinical services.

We are an enthusiastic and dynamic team. The clinical pharmacy team have a full patient centred role and are supported by an efficient dispensary and stores technician led service. We have a high focus on patient safety, medicines optimisation and efficient ways of working to ensure a high-quality service. We believe further education and training is essential to maintain excellent services; providing supervised placements for year two and three pharmacy undergraduates at Medway school of Pharmacy.

This post is based within the main pharmacy at Maidstone hospital, which has a fully automated dispensary, and excellent training facilities. Department resources include; access to an electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) system, utilisation of electronic discharge prescriptions, electronic inpatient transcription requests, TTO tracker, summary care record and wireless laptops to facilitate our work. We have also implemented the electronic sharing of discharge prescriptions with community pharmacists through the use of PharmOutcomes, with the aim to aid facilitation of the Discharge Medicine Service.

About us

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust's core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.

We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.

Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check at Enhanced Level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children)

At MTW, we seek to develop a culture where everyone can reach their full potential with opportunities to grow and develop their career. We recognise and value the unique contributions that each of our staff bring, delivering the best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to being a diverse employer and strive to reflect everyone in our local communities. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences and celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that will make our Trust the best place to work.

We support our staff with disabilities to ensure they have the adjustments they need to be the best they can be in the workplace.Collaborating with Access to Work means that our staff are assessed by experts in the workplace and we ensure that their recommendations are implemented as quickly as possible. You can find out more here: Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition: What Access to Work is - (

Interview Date: To be confirmed.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

BTec in Pharmaceutical Science and/or NVQ Pharmacy Services Level 3 Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable

National/Regional accreditation in Medicines Management, Accuracy Checking or Patient Counselling ES / A1 or D32/D33 Assessor Qualification

Experience

Essential

Pharmacy experience post qualification Hospital /clinical/medicines management experience

Desirable

Experience of working in a multidisciplinary environment. Experience in training staff

Knowledge

Essential

Good understanding of pharmacology and therapeutics

Desirable

Understanding of Clinical Governance and Risk Management and their influence on current practice

Skills

Essential

Good command of the English language Good oral and written communication skills Ability to plan, prioritise and organise workload and refer problems as necessary Effective customer service skills Good time management skills

Desirable

Good word processing and IT skills
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