Senior Support Pharmacy Technician - Outpatients

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare organization dedicated to providing outstanding care. As a key member of the Outpatients pharmacy team, you will play a vital role in delivering pharmaceutical services, ensuring compliance with legal standards, and supporting a culture of excellence. This position offers an opportunity to lead a team, manage staff performance, and contribute to the development of clinical pharmacy services. If you are passionate about patient care and thrive in a collaborative environment, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable leadership and management experience.
• Registered with GPHC and clinical diploma preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support outpatient teams with effective pharmaceutical care.
• Monitor performance indicators and implement necessary actions.
• Manage designated staff and facilitate their training needs.

Skills

Leadership Experience

Line Management

Financial Management

Audit Experience

Education

GPHC Registration

Clinical Diploma

Job description

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Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

Job overview

As a member of the Outpatients pharmacy team, you will contribute to the provision of a range of pharmaceutical services; issuing prescriptions, giving advice where appropriate, working alongside Outpatient Pharmacy team to ensure all pharmacy duties are carried out in accordance with legal and relevant operational parameters, in addition to the departmental procedures to meet the needs of our customers.

There will be a requirement to deputise in the absence of the Superintendent pharmacist so strong professional leadership and decision-making skills, as well as line management of junior staff will form core components of the role.

Main duties of the job
• Support the Outpatient multi-disciplinary teams and Trust services with effective pharmaceutical care and intervention when required for patients, specifically with regards to medicines supply and management.
• Monitoring key quality/performance indicators and service pressures and recommending/implementing actions to address them. Reporting on workforce requirements for meeting service demand.
• To support the Superintendent Pharmacist to lead, develop, deliver and evaluate the clinical pharmacy service.
• Involved in the day-to-day management of designated staff in the Outpatient pharmacy team. Responsible for staff supervision, managing attendance and performance, identifying and facilitating staff training needs.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification.

Please do not hesitate to get in contact for further discussion.

Person specification

essential/desirable criteria

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable leadership experience and/or training
• Management experience and/or training

Desirable criteria

• outpatient experience
• clinical diploma

Skills

Essential criteria

• Line management

Desirable criteria

• Financial/ stock asset management experience
• Audit experience

Professional

Essential criteria

• Registered with GPHC

Our commitment to you:

We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

The paperwork:

• HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first - as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
• Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.
• All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
• In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
• This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job description and person specification (PDF, 800.5KB)
• HHFT Employee Rewards & Benefits (PDF, 723.8KB)
• Tackling Climate Change at Hampshire Hospitals (PDF, 4.9MB)