Pharmacy

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a dedicated Pharmacy Technician to join its Procurement and Distribution Team. The role involves ensuring high-quality patient-centered services, managing teams, and maintaining compliance with health guidelines. Candidates should possess relevant qualifications and hospital pharmacy experience, and be ready to lead and train colleagues in a dynamic healthcare environment.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave entitlement

Access to NHS discount schemes

Qualifications

• Experience in hospital pharmacy and procurement services.
• Familiarity with line managing and supervising staff.
• Experience in change management.

Responsibilities

• Assist in delivering high-quality procurement and distribution services.
• Ensure compliance with medicines legislation and guidelines.
• Provide leadership for staff including training and performance management.

Skills

IT literacy

Team leadership

Negotiation

Organizational skills

Education

Registered Pharmacy Technician with General Pharmaceutical Council

Management qualification

Pre-registration trainee pharmacy technician assessor course

Job description

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Assist the Procurement and Distribution (P&D) Team Leader in the following:

• Safe, high quality patient centred Procurement and Distribution services (P&D). This includes all aspects of medicine storage, including medical gases, aligned with the guidance document “Rules and Guidance for Pharmaceutical Distributors” and the Trust’s Wholesale Distribution Authorisation (for medicines for human use) aka WDA(H).
• The planning, development, monitoring, audit, evaluation and delivery of the P&D services across the Trust.
• Ensuring that working practices meet requirements of medicines legislation as well as professional, local and national guidelines.
• Implementing necessary changes, thereby ensuring the delivery of a comprehensive, high quality service.
• Provide professional leadership and management of all aspects of P&D services for all staff members who work within the area. This includes pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pre-registration staff, trainee pharmacists and support workers.
• Management of regional and national contracts and ensuring departmental compliance.
• Ensuring that appropriate training is provided and documented for all staff working in the area.
• Promote excellence within the P&D department and model behaviours of continuous learning and improvement to others.
• Represent BHT at regional and national levels and participate in the wider strategic agenda for pharmacy technicians

Main duties of the job

Please refer to the comprehensive Job Description and Personal Specification for a full list of the main responsibilities and duties.

Working for our organisation

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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

What do we stand for?

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacy Technician with General Pharmaceutical Council
• First line management training or a management Qualification.
• Pre-registration trainee pharmacy technician assessor course/ Workplace Training supervisor

Experience

• Hospital Pharmacy Experience
• Experience in delivering a Procurement and Distribution service
• Experience of line managing and following HR policies
• Experience of day to day supervision and training
• Experience in change management

Skills, abilities and knowledge

• The ability to prioritise and manage own workload and that of the team.
• Able to write and implement procedures.
• Able to negotiate and work through difficult situations.
• IT literate.
• Good personal organisational skills and the ability to organise others.
• Able to work as a team-leader.
• Self-motivated and able to motivate others.
• Able to use own initiative and work alone.
• Ability to achieve targets
• Able to recognise limits of competency and seek advice from colleagues
• Able to identify areas where change is needed, embrace new ideas and with the support of senior colleagues implement change
• To have experience in recruitment and retention of staff
• Maintain professional competency & evidence of CPD

Special circumstance

• Able to travel all sites within Trust and to venues for training
• Weekend and Bank holiday working as per rota

PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

I f you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.

Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.

Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

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