Clinical Pharmacy Technician - AMU

Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Shrewsbury is seeking a motivated registered Pharmacy Technician. You will provide essential support in various duties such as dispensing, patient counselling, and participating in medicines management. This role offers opportunities for personal development within a supportive team dedicated to improving patient care. Join us to make a positive impact in healthcare.

Benefits

Supportive and friendly team

Opportunities for personal development

Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacy Technician with ACT is required.
• Experience in hospital pharmacy practice is preferred.
• Ability to counsel patients and manage medicines.

Responsibilities

• Provide support and training under senior staff direction.
• Dispense and check medicines' accuracy.
• Engage in patient counselling and medicines reconciliation.

Skills

Adaptability

Conscientiousness

Medicines Management

Job description

Job overview

We are looking for a highly motivated, adaptable and conscientious registered Pharmacy Technician with ACT to join our team.

We are a department committed to the extended role of Technicians, and you will be encouraged to develop your skills in all aspects of hospital pharmacy practice in our busy department.

Medicines Management Systems are highly integrated into electronic IT systems. Pharmacy Technicians are involved in “at the bedside clinical services”, PODs, medicines reconciliation and one-stop dispensing.

This position provide the successful applicant with the ability to specialise in the essential AMU pathway that has a real impact in patient care.

Main duties of the job

• To provide staff support, training, management and guidance under the direction of a senior member of staff.
• Dispensing, medicines supply and accuracy checking of:
• Stock medicines
• Inpatient and outpatient medicines
• Clinical trial medicines
• Aseptically prepared medicines including radiopharmaceutical diagnostics
• Medicines Management:
• Patient counselling
• Medicine reconciliation
• Discharge medicines service

Working for our organisation

Do you want to make a difference?

Then our department is right for you.

Here in our department; we are all one team, here for our patients. everybody on this team knows something that somebody else may not and so we are all each other’s safety net. We choose to value and respect each other so that we create the best possible environment for excellence.

We believe in making a difference for our patients.

Due to investment and the development of new roles, there are several new opportunities available within our department.

This is an exciting time that will lead to much improvement for our patient’s care–if you want to make a difference; nowis the time to join The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) Pharmacy.

What can SaTH Pharmacy offer you?

• Patient focused service
• Supportive and friendly team
• Opportunities for personal development
• A department open to new ways of working

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.