Pharmacy Technician

North East Ambulance Service; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join North East Ambulance Service as a pharmacy technician, a vital role for improving medicines governance and patient care. You'll work closely with the Medicines Management Team to ensure safety, compliance, and quality in medicines supply, and engage in various projects across the North East.

Qualifications

• Must have an interest in expanding knowledge and self-development.
• Experience in stock control and ordering management required.

Responsibilities

• Support the safe supply and use of medicines across the Trust.
• Assist with medicines management and governance.
• Collaborate with clinical and operational staff on process reviews.

Skills

Communication

Time management

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Teams

Education

Accuracy checking qualification

Job description

Job overview

Are you keen to work to supply medicines and improve medicines governance and patient care in an ambulance trust?

We are looking for a pharmacy technician with a checking qualification who has an interest in expanding your knowledge and self-development. You are proficient in IT, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Teams.

Previous experience in stock control and ordering management is required, along with an accuracy checking qualification.

You have good communication skills and are able to work well under pressure, prioritise, and manage your time effectively.

Please be aware that the role is predominantly on-site at our HQ in Newburn (base), with some remote working elements. Travel to ambulance stations across the North East region from Berwick to Teesside and Weardale will be required. A Trust vehicle will be provided for this purpose.

We are a small, friendly medicines team. For further information, please contact:

Fay Ord
Email: [e-mail]
Mobile: [phone]

Main duties of the job

You will support the safe, effective, and efficient supply and use of medicines across North East Ambulance Service.

You will assist the Medicines Management Team with technical and operational aspects of medicines management and governance.

You will work within all medicines policies and standard operating procedures, ensuring they are understood and followed. You will support medicines audits and compliance to provide assurance to the Medicines Optimisation Group.

You will support quality improvement initiatives and provide technical knowledge to transform how the Trust manages medicines, aiming to optimise their use operationally. You will support medicine projects and collaborate with Trust clinical and operational staff to review processes for value for money, waste control, and stock management.

You will assist in reviewing and managing alerts, incidents, serious incidents, and near misses related to medicines. You will ensure that medicines and pharmacy services are provided with regard to patient safety, with systems in place to enhance safety and patient care.