Pre-registration Trainee Pharmacy Technician

Bolton Nhs Foundation Trust; Farnworth; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 18,000; Part time

Job summary

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is offering an Advanced Apprenticeship scheme within the Pharmacy Department, enabling training toward pharmaceutical responsibilities on wards and in hospital pharmacies. The program focuses on dispensing, patient care, and medicines management alongside supervision by senior staff.

Funding is limited to those without a level 4 qualification or degree; applicants with higher qualifications may need to self-fund.

Qualifications

• Provide safe dispensing service.
• Provide patient-focussed pharmacy services to named clinical areas.
• Complete drug histories under supervision.
• Assess patients' own medicines for fitness to use.
• Develop skills for dispensing for discharge schemes under supervision.

Responsibilities

• Provide a safe and effective dispensing service.
• Provide patient focused pharmacy services to named clinical areas and support medicines management and risk management strategies within those area(s) and/or services.
• Complete Drug histories whilst under the supervision of a designated registered Pharmacy Technician.
• Assess patients' own medicines for fitness to use and contribute to schemes involving the safe and effective use of patients' own medicines under supervision of the Senior Pharmacy Technician, Medicines Management.
• Develop skills which allow active contribution to dispensing for discharge schemes and be responsible for providing this service to nominated wards under the guidance of Senior Pharmacy Technician, Medicines Management.

Skills

Dispensing

Pharmacy counselling

Patient services

Education

No degree required

Job description

This is an Advanced Apprenticeship scheme therefore funding for training can only be provided to those who do not hold a level 4 qualification or above i.e. a degree in any relevant Pharmacy related subject area. Any successful applicant with level 4 or above qualifications in a Pharmacy related subject would therefore need to self-fund the course. You will receive training in a wide range of pharmaceutical skills including the provision of pharmaceutical care to both In-patients and Out-patients. You will dispense prescriptions, undertake over the counter sales, provide counselling to patients on the use of their prescribed medication, and participate in services provided to the wards To be enabled to carry out pharmaceutical technical duties in specified areas of the Pharmacy Department and on wards under the direction of the Chief Pharmacist and Pharmacy General Services Manager (Chief Technician). The post holder will be enabled to provide services in a consistently high and professional manner which is complementary to a well-managed clinical pharmacy service, at all times ensuring that standards are maintained, particularly with respect to statutory professional and legal requirements, i.e.:-

Key Responsibilities

• - provide a safe and effective dispensing service
• - provide patient focussed pharmacy services to named clinical areas and support medicines management and risk management strategies within those area(s) and/or services
• - Complete Drug histories whilst under the supervision of a designated registered Pharmacy Technician
• - assess patients' own medicines for fitness to use and contribute to schemes involving the safe and effective use of patients' own medicines under supervision of the Senior Pharmacy Technician, Medicines Management
• - develop skills which allow active contribution to dispensing for discharge schemes and be responsible for providing this service to nominated wards under the guidance of Senior Pharmacy Technician, Medicines Management

About the Trust

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust was formed in 2008 and, in 2011, we became an integrated provider with community health services joining the trust. Covering a catchment area that also incorporates parts of Bury, Wigan and Salford, we deliver hospital and community based services from the Royal Bolton Hospital in Farnworth and from 20 health centres across Bolton, to a catchment population of 310,000+ people. The Royal Bolton Hospital is a major hub within Greater Manchester for women's and children's services and is the busiest single ambulance-receiving site in Greater Manchester. We're structured in four clinical divisions - Community Services, Families and Diagnostics, Medicine, and Surgery and are led by a Board of Directors. As an NHS Foundation Trust we're accountable to our members and have a Council of Governors to represent the views of patients, public, staff and partners. Buildings, names and models of care have changed over the centuries, but one thing has remained constant and is prevalent among our 6,718 staff members: the enduring commitment to providing the best health and care for the people of Bolton.