Senior Aseptic Pharmacy Technician
3 weeks ago
We are seeking a highly experienced and skilled Senior Aseptic Pharmacy Technician to lead our team at the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. The successful candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the Aseptic Unit, ensuring an effective and efficient service is provided.
Main Responsibilities- Provide service leadership and management responsibility for all staff working in the Aseptic Unit.
- Lead service improvement and staff development within the unit.
- Act as a role model and provide a consistently high standard of pharmaceutical service to patients.
- Provide operational support to the pharmacy department as required.
- Be an Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician (ACPT).
- Leadership & Service Development
- Provide service leadership and management responsibility for staff working in the Aseptic Unit.
- Support the development and implementation of a strategy for improving and maintaining the skill mix of staff working within the unit.
- Act as the information technology lead for the unit, ensuring optimal use of all systems.
- Act as a positive role model and provide professional leadership and pharmaceutical advice and/or support on issues associated with the dispensary.
- Work closely with the service manager to ensure that patient pathways are appropriately managed.
- Provide the pharmacy senior management group with details of output, performance, and activity at specified time intervals.
- Ensure that the unit maintains standards required to comply with relevant licenses and standards.
- Be the lead for emergency preparedness and business continuity planning for the unit.
- Ensure that standard operating procedures and related documents are developed, implemented, and reviewed as necessary.
- Ensure all relevant documentation is accurately completed and controlled at all times.
- Maintain the recording system for any in-process errors or deviation from standard operating procedures.
- Ensure relevant product catalogues are kept up to date.
- Liaise with the contracted quality assurance (QA) provider to ensure appropriate QA support to the unit.
- Organise the maintenance and monitoring of the facilities.
- Ensure that all contracts are in date and their performance monitored.
- Monitor processes, product, and performance of all equipment in the unit, reporting any problems or unusual occurrences immediately they occur.
- Ensure that staff manage medicine and consumable stocks in accordance with legislation and best practice guidance and to ensure that waste is minimised.
- Be responsible for monitoring and investigating clinical incidents that occur within the unit.
- Co-ordinate monitoring and investigation of complaints that relate to the unit.
- Monitor performance and co-ordinate audits against local and national standards and key performance indicators.
- Identify key areas of risks and ensure that appropriate actions are undertaken to mitigate them.
- Ensure that the unit fully supports the provision of clinical trials.
- Liaise with other senior pharmacy staff to ensure the effective provision of Pharmacy Services.
- Be an active member of the Senior Pharmacy Technician Group to influence, lead, and develop pharmacy policies across the department.
- Staff Management & Training
- Take overall responsibility for the management of staff working in the Aseptic Unit.
- Be responsible for ensuring staffing rotas are available and adhered to for staff within the unit.
- Be responsible for the authorisation of annual leave for pharmacy technicians and pharmacy assistants.
- Be responsible for the training in the complex practical skills and procedures required of all personnel assigned to the unit.
- Be line manager for staff within the unit and ensure the training and development of such staff.
- Facilitate the training and development of all pharmacy staff in line with service needs and personal development plans.
- Identify the training and development needs of all pharmacy staff.
- Deliver education and training to other healthcare staff as required.
- Act as CPD facilitator for staff within Pharmacy.
- Assess competencies of junior pharmacists.
- Undertake CPD to ensure that knowledge is continually updated in the field of practice.
- Arrange relevant departmental meetings that will enable staff to be brought up to date on current issues and to address staff development needs in relation to patient services.
- Manage recruitment and selection for the unit, including organising and chairing recruitment panels.
- Research & Development
- Lead in audit and practice research to investigate, and where appropriate, improve the quality of service for patients in the Trust.
- Encourage research conducted to be published or presented at local, national, or international meetings.
- Develop working relationship and research links with academic units to promote collaboration in pharmacy practice research.
- Financial
- Be an approved signatory for authorising orders and writing off stock up to the value stated in the Trust Standing Financial Instructions (SFIs).
- Develop appropriate business cases for service developments in Pharmacy as necessary.
- Support the Trust in monitoring expenditure in order to provide accurate expenditure information, with appropriate analysis, to the appropriate division.
- Attend financial meetings when required.
- Communications and Relationships
- Communicate with the multidisciplinary healthcare team to intermediate care, general practice support, and community pharmacists in the provision of medicine-related information and assessment of patients' treatment.
- Work with appropriate staff to support development of services and facilitate the implementation of strategies to improve safe medicines use throughout the Trust.
- Demonstrate good communication skills as the role liaises with a wide variety of people within the Trust.
- Liaise with external bodies including the local ICS, regional pharmacy services, and necessary pharmacy networks.
- Provide training on medication-related issues, policies, guidelines, and service developments to pharmacy colleagues, nursing, and medical staff.
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