Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician - Cancer Services

UCLH (University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust); London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for a pharmacy technician to join a dynamic cancer pharmacy team at a leading NHS trust. In this role, you will work closely with a multidisciplinary team to provide high-quality pharmacy services to oncology and haematology patients. Your responsibilities will include managing medicines on the wards, delivering individualized medication counseling, and ensuring timely patient discharges. This position offers the chance to contribute to a progressive pharmacy service in a state-of-the-art environment. Join a supportive team that values safety, kindness, and teamwork, and be part of an organization recognized as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in England.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Training and development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Registered pharmacy technician with GPhC registration required.
• Experience in ward-level medicines management is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical pharmacy technician service to oncology and haematology patients.
• Work closely with nurses to maintain high standards of medicines management.

Skills

Medicines Management

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Organizational Skills

IT Skills

Training and Assessment

Education

NVQ Pharmacy Services Level 3

BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science

Tools

Pharmacy Computer Systems

Job description

Current vacancies

NHS AfC: Band 5

Main area: Pharmacy
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 309-UCLH-5722-A

Site: University College London Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £35,964 - £43,780 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/02/2025 23:59

Job overview

UCLH, in partnership with University College London, has been designated one of the country’s five comprehensive biomedical research centres. The UCLH Macmillan Cancer Centre opened in April 2012 and encompasses our busy outpatient clinics and daycare treatment facilities as well as our growing ambulatory chemotherapy practice.

The pharmacy cancer team is well integrated into the cancer directorate and provides a high-quality and progressive pharmacy service to cancer patients. Chemotherapy production services are delivered from a state-of-the-art unit.

This is an exciting opportunity for a pharmacy technician to join our Cancer Pharmacy team. We are an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, and the technical service is fundamental to supporting the flow to ensure timely medicines reconciliation and patient discharges, whilst delivering a high-quality service.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated pharmacy technician to join our lively, progressive, and dynamic pharmacy team. The successful candidate will provide a ward-based clinical pharmacy technician service to our oncology and haematology patients, which will include working closely with the nurses to ensure medicines management is maintained at a high standard on the wards and providing an individualised medication counselling service to patients.

The postholder will work closely with the multi-disciplinary team and will have the opportunity to work across different clinical settings including inpatient wards, daycare, outpatients, and ambulatory care. To be successful in this role, you will need to be organised, motivated, have excellent communication and people skills as well as the ability to adapt quickly to new situations.

Registration as a pharmacy technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) is essential as well as holding ACPT accreditation or be willing to work towards it. Previous experience of medicines management at ward level would be a significant advantage.

Person specification

Knowledge and Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• NVQ Pharmacy Services Level 3 plus an accredited underpinning knowledge (BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent) or equivalent
• Accredited to perform final accuracy check on clinically screened prescriptions or with suitable experience to work towards
• Accredited medicines management qualification or willing to work towards

Experience

• London Pharmacy Education and Training – Technician Self Development Programme – Stage 2 or working towards or equivalent
• Previous evaluated experience of supervising staff and workload on a day-to-day basis
• Medicines Management experience at ward level
• Previous evaluated experience of participation in audit
• Previous evaluated experience of recruitment and selection of staff
• Demonstrated experience of ability to appraise staff and set performance objectives

Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to work to set procedures
• Demonstrated ability to train and assess others
• Demonstrated ability to solve more complex problems
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure accurately and maintain high standards
• Demonstrated ability to motivate self and others
• Demonstrated ability to organise project work
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex information effectively
• Demonstrated ability to complete complex documentation
• Demonstrated pharmacy computer and IT skills including: Email, word processing, spreadsheets, accurate data entry
• Demonstrated ability to write SOPs
• Demonstrated ability to organise an audit

Personal Qualities

• Willingness to learn
• Commitment to training
• Good oral and written communication skills

At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork, and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.

UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff and has a dedicated policy which allows staff to apply for flexible working right from the beginning of employment.

This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.