Specialist Pharmacy Technician

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital; Brighton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

free gym membership

health assessments

retail discounts

pension options

Job summary

Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital is hiring a Pharmacy Technician with oncology and SACT experience. You will work closely with the oncology pharmacist to deliver a clinical service to oncology patients, perform medicines reconciliation, and liaise with staff to manage SACT ordering and administration.

The role requires registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council and excellent communication skills, with a focus on patient care and collaboration within a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Post-qualification experience in oncology and SACT.
• Excellent communication and people skills.

Responsibilities

• Work in partnership with the oncology pharmacist and pharmacy manager to deliver a clinical service to oncology patients.
• Undertake medicines reconciliation, prepare discharge medications, provide medicines information and counselling to patients.
• Liaise with colleagues and suppliers to plan and order SACT in preparation for patients’ appointments.
• Train and support colleagues in SACT ordering, dispensing and administration.
• Assist with the procurement of pharmaceutical stock for the pharmacy and other departments using appropriate electronic systems.
• Assist with supplying stock to other departments.
• Participate in pharmacy stock takes and audits.

Skills

Oncology experience

SACT experience

Communication skills

Education

GPhC registration

Job description

Pharmacy Technician Brighton Hospital | Pharmacy | Permanent | Full- Time | Up to £35,000 per annum, depending on experience 37.5 hours per week

This is a specialist role with experience in oncology/haemato-oncology. Build a brighter future while you’re helping us build a healthier nation.

At Nuffield Health, our approach is to fully integrate medicines into a personalised pathway of patient care. That means you’ll benefit from a way of working that allows you to do the best job you can.

It’s everything you need to grow your career.

As a Pharmacy Technician at our Brighton Hospital, you’ll be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council and you’ll have proven post-qualification experience in oncology and systemic anticancer therapy (SACT).

It’s also important that you have excellent communication and people skills, as you’ll be working closely with our patients and a variety of clinical staff.

As a Pharmacy Technician you will:

• Work in partnership with the specialist oncology pharmacist and pharmacy manager to deliver a clinical pharmacy service to oncology and haemato-oncology patients.


• Undertake medicines reconciliation, prepare discharge medications, provide medicines information and counselling to patients.


• Liaise with colleagues and suppliers to plan and order SACT in preparation for patients’ appointments.


• Train and support colleagues in SACT ordering, dispensing and administration.


• Assist with the procurement of pharmaceutical stock for the pharmacy and other departments using appropriate electronic systems.


• Assist with supplying stock to other departments.


• Participate in pharmacy stock takes and audits.

Helping you feel good. We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind.

Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options.

• free gym membership


• health assessments


• retail discounts


• pension options

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital.

At Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital, we work with leading medical Consultants to provide first-class treatments and high standards of care for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of a wide range of medical and surgical conditions using the latest facilities and technology.

We take pride in delivering high standards of patient care to both private patients and the NHS.

Our facilities include 44 purpose built en-suite rooms, three operating theatres and an endoscopy theatre.

Other facilities include physiotherapy, Oncology, health screening, diagnostics and a dental suite.

We are located in Woodingdean, on the east side of Brighton with easy access by rail and road, including free parking.

Nuffield Health, is the UK’s largest healthcare charity. For over 60 years, we’ve been working to make the UK fitter, healthier, happier and stronger. All for the public benefit. We do this through our family of 31 award-winning hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics and over a 100 workplace wellbeing services. As a charity, we reinvest all our income into our services, into pioneering improvements in care, and most importantly into our social impact programmes, which are designed to support people who would not normally be able to afford or access our services. Its all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.