Senior Pharmacy Technician-Mental Health

NHS; Worthing; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent mental health trust in Worthing is seeking an experienced Senior Pharmacy Technician to enhance patient care and lead technical services within inpatient units. The role is pivotal in medicines optimisation and provides excellent development opportunities within a supportive team. The candidate must be GPhC registered with relevant experience in mental health and hospital settings.

Benefits

Generous holiday entitlement

Excellent NHS Pension Scheme

Access to psychological support

Flexible working opportunities

Discount schemes (gyms, shopping)

Qualifications

• Registered as Pharmacy Technician with GPhC.
• Experience at band 6 post.
• Experience supervising or managing other staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop pharmacy service for mental health units.
• Ensure efficiency and safety of the services provided.
• Provide patient medication education and support.

Skills

Experience in mental health

Hospital Pharmacy experience

IT competency

Planning and developing new services

Education

NVQ Level 3 or BTEC

ACPT

NVQ A1 assessor

Tools

Pharmacy computer systems

Prescription tracking system

Job description

If you are enthusiastic and passionate about improving the lives of patients in need of mental healthcare treatment, then role as a Senior Pharmacy Technician in our Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Trust could be right for you. We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced, innovative, enthusiastic, patient-focused GphC registered Pharmacy Technician to work as a core member of inpatient and urgent care teams across the Worthing area.

You should have an interest for working within a specialist mental health service, an understanding of the medicines used and and an awareness of the people we support and care for. The role will primarily be based at Meadowfield Hospital, Swandean, Worthing.

The rolewill include medicines optimisation on the wards at Meadowfield Hospital, Forget me not unit, Selden centre and Shepherd House in Worthing, West Sussex.

The post holder will be supported to undertake further accreditation as appropriate, and there are opportunities to develop the role and service to the inpatient wards and urgent care.

You will be joining a friendly, supportive Pharmacy team which is highly regarded in the Trust and is rapidly expanding due to recent significant investments. This role is a great opportunity to start or continue a career in mental health and can lead to a future senior role.

There is no dispensary commitment with this role, or weekend/ bank holiday working.

Main duties of the job

Please see the Job description for more details.

To lead and develop the pharmacy service in relation to technical services to the mental healthUnits/ wards of the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust within the locality. To ensure that the service provided is safe, efficient and effective.

To lead the technical developments of medicines management to the units/ wards within this locality.

To act as the operational lead for all technical services provided to inpatient units of the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

To organise, lead, develop and participate in the provision of patient medication education to service users, and on occasion carers, under the specialities encompassed by this diverse service, delegating this role where appropriate.

To act as a role model for provision of pharmacy services to mental health to other pharmacy technicians and assistants within the team.

We provide pharmacy and medicines optimisation services to the inpatient wards and our Pharmacy staff are highly regarded as valued members of the multi-disciplinary team.

About us

Sussex Partnership is one of the largest mental health trusts in the UK. We are a friendly and committed pharmacy team, who are keen to support the wellbeing of our patients and each other.

As a mental health trust, Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.

You can expect:

• Access to full psychological support, the wellbeing team
• Flexible working opportunities
• Access to a host of discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
• A position within a trust rated as Outstanding for caring and Good overall by the CQC
• Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
• Excellent NHS Pension Scheme

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification. If you have any queries please feel free to contact to discuss further.

We welcome applications from GphC registered Pharmacy Technician colleagues with experience in mental health. A comprehensive programme of training and clinical supervision will be provided and including access to the CMHP courses - Psych 1 & 2.

We take pride in developing our pharmacy technicians through formal and informal study, clinical supervision and training.

The pharmacy leadership team is committed to education and training of the pharmacy workforce and will provide access to external training (including the introductory College of Mental Health Pharmacy Psych 1 and Psych 2 programme).

Person Specification

Registration

• Registered as Pharmacy Technician with GPhC

Qualifications

• NVq Level 3 or BTEC
• ACPT
• NVQ A1 assessor
• Experience at band 6 post

Non-clinical knowledge / exper

• Met KSF Band 5 gateway
• Experience supervising or managing other staff

Clinical knowledge and exper

• Hospital Pharmacy experience
• Experience of delivering medicines management schemes
• Experience working in mental health setting

Planning & organisation

• Evidence of planning and developing new services

HR

• Experience in training staff

IT

• Demonstrates IT competency including us e of Pharmacy computer systems
• Experience in using Prescription tracking system

Other

• Driving skills

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.

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearpro rata for part time