Senior Pharmacy Technician- Immunotherapy

Guys & St Thomas Hospital; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking a Senior Pharmacy Technician to join their dynamic Immunotherapy Clinical Pharmacy Team. This role offers the chance to provide essential pharmacy services to outpatient clinical specialties and manage complex medication needs for patients. The successful candidate will collaborate with highly specialist pharmacists, ensuring high-quality care for patients with long-term conditions. If you are passionate about pharmacy and looking to make a meaningful impact in a supportive environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Qualified pharmacy technician with accredited knowledge and registration.
• Experience in hospital pharmacy and stock management.

Responsibilities

• Provide pharmaceutical support to outpatient clinics and homecare patients.
• Deliver safe and effective pharmacy services for Immunotherapy.

Skills

Pharmacy Technician

Excellent communication skills

Problem-solving

IT proficiency (MS Outlook, Excel, Word)

Stock level management

Education

Pharmacy services level 3

BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent

GCSE Maths and English grades C or above

Tools

EPIC software

Job description

Senior Pharmacy Technician- Immunotherapy

NHS AfC: Band 5

Main area: Pharmacy Technician Grade NHS AfC: Band 5

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Job ref: 196-LIS9280

Employer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Site: Guys Hospital

Town: London

Salary: £35,964 - £43,780 p.a. inclusive of HCA

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 23/02/2025 23:59

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Job overview

We are delighted to offer the opportunity for a Senior Pharmacy Technician to join the Immunotherapy Clinical Pharmacy Team. The successful candidate will help to deliver pharmacy services to all our adult outpatient based clinical specialties. Also to assist in the co-ordination of complex, high risk and high cost medicines to patients in their home or the relevant day centres.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be a core team member, working with a team of Highly Specialist Pharmacists across our adult clinical specialties; Allergy, Dermatology, Rheumatology, Neurology and Ophthalmology. Their clinical practice will be to deliver high quality clinical care to a cohort of medically complex patients that require their long term conditions to be managed in secondary / tertiary care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Pharmacy departments of Guys and St Thomas’ provides safe and effective pharmaceutical ward and dispensary services to the many inpatients and outpatients of the Trust’s many specialties. This post will sit within the Immunotherapy Clinical Pharmacy Team.

To be responsible for providing a safe, efficient and cost effective pharmacy service for Immunotherapy ward based inpatients, day case and outpatients including:

• To provide pharmaceutical support to our day case Infusion Suite and speciality Day Units
• To provide pharmaceutical support for patients receiving medication at home (homecare)
• To support the specialist pharmacists and wider Multi-disciplinary team (MDT) in outpatient clinics where medicines are prescribed and administered on site
• To support the Immunotherapy Specialist Pharmacists Deliver medicines optimisation projects
• To support the set up and prescription management processes for patients receiving medications via an agreed free of charge, early access or post trial schemes

Person specification

Knowledge/Qualifications

• Qualified pharmacy technician with pharmacy services level 3 plus an accredited underpinning knowledge (BTEC in Pharmaceutical Science or equivalent)
• GCSE, or equivalent, Maths and English grades C or above
• Registered as a Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Accredited technician checking qualification

Experience

• Experience as a Pharmacy technician
• Confident and proficient with IT, using MS Outlook, Excel, Word
• Experience with 'EPIC' software.
• Stock level management and maintenance experience
• Hospital pharmacy experience

Skills

• Work accurately, methodically and efficiently
• Excellent communication (speaking and writing) skills with the ability to relate to a diverse group of professional staff and patients.
• Able to deal with challenging, abusive or upset individuals, calmly, politely and effectively.
• Logical thinker and able to solve problems independently