Pharmacy Assistant Medicines Effectiveness Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Katalysysts Consulting; Swindon; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a friendly and progressive pharmacy team dedicated to patient care and effective medicine management. In this role, you will support the Lead Pharmacy Technician in introducing new medicines to the Trust while developing your pharmaceutical skills. You'll engage in various tasks, including administrative support, dispensing prescriptions, and maintaining stock levels. This role offers a unique opportunity to grow within a supportive environment that values teamwork and patient-centered care. If you are passionate about making a difference in healthcare and eager to learn, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Support the Lead Pharmacy Technician in introducing new medicines.
• Assist in general pharmaceutical duties under supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to the Medicines Effectiveness team.
• Dispense prescriptions and support the Dispensary Manager.

Skills

Pharmaceutical knowledge

Administrative skills

Teamwork

Patient-centred approach

Electronic prescribing systems

Education

QCF level 2 in Pharmacy services

Tools

CareFlow EPR

NerveCentre

Job description

Are you looking to join a friendly and progressive pharmacy team, which is focused on ensuring that all our patients receive safe, clinically effective and cost-efficient medicines?

The successful candidate will support our Lead Pharmacy Technician (Medicines Effectiveness) in introducing new medicines to the Trust. You will also, for an agreed proportion of your time, work with our Dispensary and Pharmacy Stores teams to develop your pharmaceutical skills.

In joining our team, we would like you to support our culture of improving together, inspire other team members, embrace change, and demonstrate a patient-centred approach. In return, we will support you in developing your knowledge and skills, and in your future career development.

We embrace new technologies. Our pharmacy robots are invaluable members of our team; electronic prescribing is well-established in almost all inpatient and outpatient settings at Great Western Hospital; we use CareFlow EPR electronic patient records system and NerveCentre for electronic pharmacy handover notes.

Main Responsibilities:

1. To provide administrative support to our Medicines Effectiveness team, under the supervision of the Lead Pharmacy Technician (Medicines Effectiveness), assisting in the delivery of the team's key objectives, completion of the team’s agreed tasks and actions, and documentation of the team’s performance against its key performance indicators.
2. To undertake, for an agreed proportion of your time, general pharmaceutical duties, under the supervision of our Dispensary or Pharmacy Stores Manager or their deputies, and assist in the provision of a safe and effective Pharmacy service in line with current policies, procedures and legal requirements.
3. To work in our Dispensary, dispensing prescriptions and supporting the Dispensary Manager and Lead Technician in the day to day running.
4. To work as part of the Pharmacy Stores team monitoring and maintaining ward stock levels.

It is expected that the post holder will undertake in depth training and obtain a QCF level 2 in Pharmacy services unless you already hold a relevant qualification.

Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are.

• Service: We will put our patients first.
• Teamwork: We will work together.
• Ambition: We will aspire to provide the best service.
• Respect: We will act with integrity.

Additional Responsibilities:

1. Monitor the team’s shared email inboxes and direct queries to relevant team members.
2. Assist in preparing the paperwork necessary to get a new medicine added to the Pharmacy IT system and the Trust’s electronic prescribing system.
3. Assist in producing any educational materials needed to support introduction of a new medicine.
4. Assist in producing a monthly Formulary newsletter for distribution to clinicians across the Trust.
5. Ensure all relevant electronic signatures are collected on GWH Formulary Exceptions forms and Unlicensed Medicines forms and maintain a register of completed forms.
6. Maintain a spreadsheet of NICE technical appraisals (TAs) and assist in producing a brief monthly report of new NICE TAs for Pharmacy Board and Medicines Assurance Group.
7. Maintain a spreadsheet of NHS England (NHSE) communications and assist in producing a brief monthly report of new NHSE communications for Pharmacy Board and Medicines Assurance Group.

This advert closes on Thursday 5 Dec 2024.

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