Pharmacy Technician

Hampshire Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Winchester; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust operates across three sites—Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester, and Andover War Memorial Hospital—and provides inpatient pharmacy services to a population of around 600,000.

The role supports the dispensary and clinical pharmacy teams, ensuring timely processing of discharge medications and maintaining high safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Final Accuracy checking of medications
• Dispensing medications
• Provide FP10s or dispense/final accuracy check extemporaneously prepared medication
• Support training of junior staff
• Handing out the final dispensed product including counselling
• Receiving, documenting, storing and disposing of Controlled Drugs with Pharmacist or authorised witnesses as per policy
• Report incidents using Incident reporting system
• Adhere to health and safety requirements including handling of hazardous medicines
• Comment on and review Standard Operating Procedures and follow revisions
• Prioritise own work and assist other dispensary team members
• Inpatient pharmacy activities: dispensing/checking inpatient meds, TTOs, Clinical trials, Controlled Drugs
• Communicate with pharmacy team and multidisciplinary teams for safe patient care
• Support discharge processes with ward teams to facilitate patient discharge
• Support junior staff training as required

Job description

To work within the dispensary team and with the clinical pharmacy team supporting the supply of medication to inpatients on the wards, to support patient flow through timely processing of discharge medication. Duties will include but not limited to: stock management, participating in audits, final accuracy checking of medication, dispensing, training and supporting junior staff, quality improvement projects and meeting KPIs.

• Final Accuracy checking of medications
• Dispensing medications
• To provide additional pharmacy services such as providing FP10s, dispense or final accuracy check extemporaneously prepared medication
• To support with training of junior support staff
• Handing out the final dispensed product including counselling for patients, carers or healthcare professionals as required.
• Receiving, documenting, storing and disposing of Controlled Drugs with Pharmacist or authorised witnesses as per local policy, To signpost patients to other healthcare professionals who may be able to assist with advice or compliance queries.
• To report incidents using Incident reporting system.
• To adhere to health and safety requirements including safe manual handling and lifting, and safe handling of cytotoxic drugs and other hazardous medicines.
• Expected to comment on and when required review the content of Standard Operating Procedures and follow revised editions.
• Prioritisation of own work and to assist other members of the dispensary team when required.
• Working in the inpatient pharmacy dispensing and checking inpatient medication, TTO's Clinical trials and Controlled Drugs as required.
• Frequent requirement to bend/stretch when working in the inpatient pharmacy.
• To support with audits to demonstrate service quality and where necessary collect any data triggered by a patient safety alert.
• To communicate with other members of the pharmacy team to ensure effective and safe patient care.
• To communicate with the multidisciplinary team to ensure safe medication administration and storage.
• To communicate with ward-based staff and the discharge teams to facilitate patients discharge.
• To support junior staff with training as required.

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive. We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer. The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.