Specialist Cancer Pharmacy Technician | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks a proactive Band 5 Cancer Pharmacy Technician to join the Cancer Pharmacy Team at the Churchill Hospital. Responsibilities include co-ordinating the Cancer Satellite Pharmacy, training staff, and ensuring accurate dispensary work. Ideal candidates have hospital or relevant community pharmacy experience and NVQ level 3 in Pharmacy Services. This role offers opportunities for professional development in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Opportunities for continuing professional development

Qualifications

• Highly motivated and proactive pharmacy technician with hospital or community background.
• Good customer service skills in challenging situations.

Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate workload and staff in the Cancer Satellite Pharmacy.
• Train junior staff and oversee dispensary duties.
• Provide medicines optimisation service under supervision.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Organizational skills

Interpersonal skills

Team leadership

Education

NVQ level 3 in Pharmacy Services

GPhC accredited training programme

Job description

Overview

To provide co-ordinating support to the Cancer Satellite service under the direction of the senior Satellite Lead Pharmacy Technician or operational manager, including taking the lead for the Satellite service when required. To assist in ensuring dispensary work is processed accurately, safely and efficiently according to procedures to support turnaround and key performance indicators.

Responsibilities

1. Co-ordination of workload and staff in the Cancer Satellite Pharmacy
2. Training of staff
3. Management of stock
4. Patient counselling
5. Opportunity to develop CPD
6. Participate in dispensary duties as designated by the senior Satellite Lead Pharmacy Technician, including:
   1. Labelling and dispensing medicine supplies to the Cancer Centre according to the dispensary procedures; including clinical trial dispensing using the pharmacy stock control computer system, ensuring accuracy and attention to detail in processing of prescriptions.
   2. Undertaking regular expiry date checks for designated bin locations in Pharmacy Satellite to identify expired or short dated stock.
   3. Extemporaneous dispensing, making relevant calculations for the formula and according to Good Manufacturing Practice.
   4. Counselling patients on how to take their medicines in a safe and effective manner and warning them of possible side effects during treatment.
   5. Being aware of and involved in good customer service when dealing with all stakeholders, with the ability to deal with demanding, stressful, or emotional situations as they arise.
   6. Maintaining a tidy and efficient working environment.
   7. Involvement with the audit and development of the service including policy updates and working practices.
   8. Receiving prescriptions from patients/staff and receiving payment for prescription charges.
   9. Participates in processes to ensure that medicine stock levels are monitored and accurately maintained.
7. To use the Pharmacy stock control computer system and other information technology in all areas of Pharmacy; to be fully competent in the Robotic Dispensing system where applicable, with the ability to diagnose and resolve robot operating issues and escalate as required.
8. Having undertaken relevant training, to provide a medicines optimisation service to designated wards on your base site under the supervision of Medicines Management Technicians.
9. Having undertaken relevant final checking training to spend periods of time in the Dispensary providing the final check of dispensed items; to act within the limitations of the role and refer where necessary.
10. To undertake training and development in Leadership skills.
11. To be responsible for providing co-ordinating support to the Cancer Satellite service under the direction of the senior Satellite Lead pharmacy technician or operational manager, including taking the lead for the Satellite service when required. To assist in ensuring dispensary work is processed accurately, safely and efficiently according to procedures to support turnaround and key performance indicators. To be responsible for preparing some Satellite rotas, overseeing workload and delegating tasks to the dispensary team, with the ability to judge workload and when to escalate to prevent it reaching unmanageable levels, working together with Senior Technicians.
12. To be responsible for a distinct area of dispensary service, organising training, procedures and work processing for this area under the direction of the senior technician or operational manager.
13. To supervise and be involved in the training and induction of junior dispensary staff members including Pharmacy Technicians, Assistants and Apprentices and acting as a role model.
14. To support the dispensary audits, planning audits, making staff aware, inputting data, analysing data and producing reports.
15. To provide practical support and advice to the allocated team members in relation to managing monthly Satellite Controlled Drug stock checks, auditing and correction of levels, ensuring the correct process is followed and a clear audit trail is maintained.
16. To be or obtain the Certificate of Competence in Vocational Assessment and undertake assessments as designated by the Pharmacy Education and Training Team.
17. To participate in and be responsible for completing a programme of continuing professional development.
18. To participate in weekend, evening, early and bank holiday working according to rota; to act as team leader for a weekend shift and ensure tasks are delegated according to skills of individuals in the team and completed.
19. To maintain the equipment inventory file list.
20. To become an accredited fire marshal.
21. To be a first aid appointed person.
22. Any other reasonable duties as requested.

Additional Information

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and proactive pharmacy technician to join the Cancer Pharmacy Team as a Band 5 Cancer Pharmacy Technician, at the Churchill Hospital and able to cover across sites. The successful candidate will be highly motivated with excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills interested in developing leadership skills to support the Senior Pharmacy Technician. The Cancer Pharmacy Team is a large team covering the Churchill and Horton Hospitals and includes pharmacy assistants, technicians, pharmacist and admin. The candidate ideally will have either a hospital pharmacy background, or with community pharmacy experience, wishing to make a change into the hospital environment, for which appropriate training will be provided. You must have successfully achieved the relevant units of pharmacy services skills, ideally NVQ level 3 (QCF) or an equivalent GPhC accredited training programme.

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