Pharmacy Technician

Bidvane; Tees Valley; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

Roseberry Park Hospital in Tees Valley seeks an experienced Pharmacy Technician to join the pharmacy team for a 12-month fixed-term role. You will support medicines optimisation, manage ward-based services, and assist with dispensary accuracy checks in a mental health and learning disability setting.

Travel across Tees with a vehicle is required. GPhC registration or pre-registration due within four months is expected. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 or BTEC in pharmacy services, or equivalent.
• Accredited checking qualification, or willingness to work towards one.
• GPhC registration as a pharmacy technician, or pre-registration due to register within four months of applying.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical medicines management and medicines optimisation services at Roseberry Park Hospital.
• Supply accurate medication to patients from admission through discharge, on wards and in the dispensary.
• Clinically check medication from a range of order forms.
• Carry out accuracy checking in the dispensary.
• Perform technical dispensary duties to keep the department running smoothly.
• Assist Clinical Pharmacists and Senior Pharmacy Technicians with the ward-based medicines optimisation service.
• Deliver the technical clinical pharmacy service across a variety of specialities under the Lead Pharmacy Technician.
• Promote medicines optimisation and a positive image of people with mental health conditions and learning disabilities.

Skills

Medicines management

Communication

Organisational skills

Time management

Teamwork

Education

NVQ Level 3 in pharmacy services

BTEC in pharmacy services

Tools

Accredited checking qualification

Microsoft Office

Job description

The post is a 12-month fixed-term role in the pharmacy team at Roseberry Park Hospital, part of Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. Core work is ward-based medicines management and dispensary accuracy checking, supporting pharmacists and senior technicians with medicines optimisation. The post spans a range of specialities in a mental health and learning disability service, and the role needs independent travel across Tees with a vehicle. Fit depends on GPhC registration, or pre-registration due within four months, and visa sponsorship is not available.

What the job involves

• Provide technical medicines management and medicines optimisation services at Roseberry Park Hospital
• Supply accurate and timely medication to patients from admission through to discharge, working with pharmacy colleagues on wards and in the dispensary
• Clinically check medication from a range of order forms
• Carry out accuracy checking in the dispensary
• Perform technical dispensary duties to keep the department running smoothly
• Assist Clinical Pharmacists and Senior Pharmacy Technicians with the ward-based medicines optimisation service
• Deliver the technical clinical pharmacy service across a variety of specialities under the Lead Pharmacy Technician
• Promote medicines optimisation and a positive image of people with mental health conditions and learning disabilities

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 or BTEC in pharmacy services, or equivalent
• Accredited checking qualification, or willingness to work towards one

Registration & licences

• GPhC registration as a pharmacy technician, or pre-registration due to register within four months of applying

Experience

• Experience of pharmacy practice

Skills & knowledge

• Understanding of risks associated with medicines
• Good written and verbal communication
• Organisational and time management skills
• Patient-centred approach to care
• Following legal and organisational policies and procedures
• Working independently and as part of a team

Other

• Suitable to work with vulnerable patients
• Ability to travel independently in line with Trust policy and service need
• Access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes

Nice to have

• Experience in a hospital pharmacy as a qualified or student technician
• Experience of a patient-facing role
• NHS England Medicines Optimisation Modules 1-7
• CPPE Community Pharmacy Technician: Advancing Your Role programme
• CPPE Mental Health programme
• Microsoft Office (Teams, Word, PowerPoint, Excel), email and internet use
• Leadership experience and/or staff supervision

What’s offered

• Further development and training to extend the role