Senior Lead Pharmacy Technician, Medicines Management

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in London is seeking an experienced Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician to support patient care through quality initiatives and staff management. The role offers leadership development and responsibility in enhancing service quality. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and experience in a UK hospital setting.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing programs

Qualifications

• Post qualification experience of working in a UK hospital.
• Experience training and supervising pharmacy staff.
• Experience in a busy clinical environment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high standard of clinical work on wards.
• Train and quality assure pharmacy assistants' activities.
• Identify quality improvement opportunities.

Skills

Able to analyse and interpret information relating to medicines and their uses

Provide information and advice to distressed patients in a calm manner

Identify the scope of a problem and consider options

Education

Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

NVQ Level 3 Pharmacy Services

AIMMS / MOP or equivalent qualification

Tools

Cerner electronic in-patient prescribing system

MS Word

MS Excel

Job description

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Our department is full of opportunity for experienced medicines management pharmacy technicians (MMPTs) who are looking to develop their staff management skills and take a lead role in our "Quality Improvement For All" programme.

We want to get our patients home as safely and as soon as we can, and to do that we need your help. You will be given opportunities to undertake service evaluation, develop training plans and Trustwide procedures and policies for use by both experienced MMPTs and staff just starting out in this area.

As a key member of the team, you will support training of new members of staff in the principles and procedures surrounding medicines reconciliation and have a central role in supporting seamless care for our patients between care providers.

It's a great chance to build your leadership skills, managing people and workflows, project management and advanced communication skills.
Most importantly, we need you to share our vision of improving the quality of the services we provide to patients.

Main duties of the job

You will maintain a high standard of clinical work when carrying out patient facing activities on the wards including constructing drug histories from a range of sources, counselling patients for discharge and liaising with primary care colleagues to ensure our patients have a streamlined transition between care settings.

Ensuring our wards comply with medicines management policies including safe storage and principles of good stock management, you will train and quality assure the ward based activities of pharmacy assistants and trainees of all disciplines.

Through service evaluation you will identify opportunities for quality improvement and support medicines related initiatives to deliver the green agenda and sustainable practices.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (pharmacy technician)
• NVQ Level 3 Pharmacy Services with underpinning knowledge provided by the BTEC Certificate in Pharmaceutical Sciences or other recognised Pharmacy Technician Qualification meeting requirements for registration with the GPhC
• AIMMS / MOP or equivalent qualification
• Checking Pharmacy Technician accreditation

Desirable criteria

• Short courses relevant to practice, to include supervisory/management qualification
• CAVA Level 3 Certificate
• Quality Improvement Level 2 (practitioner)

Experience

Essential criteria

• Post qualification experience of working in a UK hospital; this must include a solid grounding in all aspects of hospital pharmacy.
• Experience of training and supervision of pharmacy staff
• Experience working as a Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician in a busy clinical environment
• Experience of conducting service evaluation

Desirable criteria

• Practical experience with an electronic in-patient prescribing system (Cerner)
• Line-management experience
• Experience of using Quality Improvement tools in practical environment

Skills/knowledge/ abilities

Essential criteria

• Able to analyse and interpret information relating to medicines and their uses
• Be able to provide information and advice to distressed patients in a calm and empathetic manner
• Be able to provide and receive complex information on medicines use both on wards and within the dispensary
• Ability to identify the scope of a problem, consider options for solution, select solution and review outcomes

Desirable criteria

• Ability to analyse data relating to service provision and draw conclusions where there are multiple factors in consideration
• Able to motivate others, both within your team and in others
• Good working knowledge of MS Word and MS Excel software (able to use basic formulae, filters, sorting and generate graphs)

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 592.3KB)
• Functional Requirements Form (PDF, 240.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)