Pharmacy Technician – Clinical Services

NHS; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is seeking a motivated Pharmacy Technician to join their clinical services team. This role promises professional development and teamwork to enhance patient care through effective medicines management. If you want to help improve patient service, this position is for you.

Benefits

Patient focused service

Supportive and friendly team

Opportunities for personal development

A department open to new ways of working

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Experience in clinical ward-based pharmacy and medicines management.
• Skills in outpatient counselling.

Responsibilities

• Provide staff support, training, and guidance.
• Dispense and check accuracy of inpatient and outpatient medicines.
• Engage in clinical trial medicines management.

Skills

Adaptability

Conscientiousness

Patient Counselling

Team Leadership

Education

Registered Pharmacy Technician

Job description

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Job summary

We are looking for a highly motivated, adaptable and conscientious registered Pharmacy Technician with ACT to join our team.

We are a department committed to the extended role of Technicians, and you will be encouraged to develop your skills in all aspects of hospital pharmacy practice in our busy department.

Medicines Management Systems are highly integrated into electronic IT systems. Pharmacy Technicians are involved in "at the bedside clinical services", PODs, medicines reconciliation and one-stop dispensing.

Main duties of the job

To provide staff support, training, management and guidance under the direction of a senior member of staff.

Dispensing, medicines supply and accuracy checking of:

• Inpatient and outpatient medicines
• Clinical trial medicines
• Patient counselling

About us

Do you want to make a difference?

Then our department is right for you.

Here in our department; we are all one team, here for our patients. everybody on this team knows something that somebody else may not and so we are all each other's safety net. We choose to value and respect each other so that we create the best possible environment for excellence.

We believe in making a difference for our patients.

Due to investment and the development of new roles, there are several new opportunities available within our department.

This is an exciting time that will lead to much improvement for our patient's care - if you want to make a difference; nowis the time to join The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) Pharmacy.

What can SaTH Pharmacy offer you?

• Patient focused service
• Supportive and friendly team
• Opportunities for personal development
• A department open to new ways of working

Job responsibilities

For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.

Person Specification

• Registered Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Experience

• Clinical ward based pharmacy and medicines management experience
• Team leader / Worker
• Outpatient counselling

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

£29,970 to £36,483 a yearper annum/pro rata