Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician- Renal

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is seeking a Pharmacy Technician to support medicines management for renal patients. You will engage in ward-based and dispensary duties, provide patient counselling, and work with multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, effective use of medicines.

You must be an Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician or working towards it, with full training provided on medicines reconciliation and in-house procedures.

Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacy Technician with accreditation or working towards it.
• Experience in medicines management and patient safety.
• Interest in renal medicines and multidisciplinary teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Support medicines reconciliation and dispensing for renal patients.
• Provide ward-based and dispensary services with accurate checking.
• Assist in staff training and ongoing professional development.
• Participate in audits, governance, and service improvement projects.
• Respond to patient and staff enquiries and maintain high standards of care.

Skills

Medicines management

Patient counselling

Team collaboration

Education and training

Education

Accredited Pharmacy Technician

Tools

Pharmacy dispensing software

NHS Computer Systems

Job description

We are recruiting a Pharmacy Technician who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us. Join our renal pharmacy team to support safe and effective medicines management, improve patient care, and ensure continuity of medication supply for renal patients. You'll work closely with multidisciplinary teams, provide training and support to healthcare staff, undertake dispensing duties, and contribute to service development while maintaining the highest professional standards. You must be an Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician or working towards it. You will have an enthusiastic approach to education and training, multidisciplinary team working and a passion for frontline patient care. Full training will be provided on medicines reconciliation and other in house procedures. The working pattern includes a weekly late night until 6:30, 1 in 8 weekends as per the rota and 1 bank holiday per year., As a Renal Pharmacy Technician, you will work closely with the specialist renal pharmacy team to deliver high-quality medicines management services across renal wards, dialysis units, clinics, home therapies and specialist treatment areas. You will support medicines reconciliation, medication supply, patient counselling and compliance with clinical policies, ensuring safe and effective use of medicines for patients with complex renal needs. The role includes providing ward-based and dispensary services, undertaking accredited final accuracy checking, supporting staff training and development, participating in audits and service improvement projects, and ensuring compliance with governance, quality and CQC standards. You will also collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, respond to patient and staff enquiries, and contribute to the pharmacy rota, including weekends, bank holidays and late-night services.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.