Specialist Pharmacy Technician- ePMA

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

The West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Part-time specialist Pharmacy Technician - ePMA to join the pharmacy team. You will deliver clinical care and digital enhancements to the electronic prescribing system, supporting medicines management across wards.

You will work in a clinical services team, rotating through medical, surgical and admissions areas, delivering safe, effective patient care with a focus on ePMA improvements and safety features.

Qualifications

• Qualification in pharmacy with registration required.
• Experience in hospital pharmacy and with ePMA systems.
• Experience leading a team and training staff.

Responsibilities

• Support dispensary services by checking stock and prescriptions, ordering medicines, dispensing, labelling and counselling patients.
• Support ward-based activities: stock control, medication supply and medicines reconciliation.
• Coordinate with ward pharmacists, medical and nursing teams for patient care.
• Engage in improvements to patient safety and staff wellbeing.
• Rotate through medical, surgical and admissions wards with a seven-day rosta.

Skills

Communication skills

IT skills

Teamwork

Organised

Decision making

Patient care focus

Flexibility

Ability to work to deadlines

Education

BTEC Pharm Science

NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

Accredited counselling award

A1 NVQ Assessor Award

Managerial qualification or willing to pursue

GPhC registration

Recognised IT qualification

Tools

Cerner Millennium build tools

Microsoft Office

ePMA system

Job description

The Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Part-time specialist Pharmacy Technician- ePMA to join our pharmacy team.

• Are you an established Pharmacy Technician who wants to deliver high quality pharmaceutical care using an electronic prescribing and record system in a hospital team?
• Are you interested in delivering quality improvement through digital technologies?

If so, come and join us at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.

This exciting role will provide you with a range of experiences in ePMA system development, providing clinical decision support and medication safety features across various functionalities within the system.

You will also be part of the clinical services team, providing clinical care to a variety of medical, surgical and admissions wards.

Main duties of the job

A flavour of your day to day

Your week will consist of a mixture of clinical and digital activities. Within your digital role, you will work with the ePMA Meds Team and wider digital team to provide maintenance and improvements to the trusts electronic prescribing system.

Working clinically, you will deliver direct, patient-facing care ensuring the safe and appropriate use of medicines across the Trust.

Through the structured rotation plan you will be exposed to, and work within, a number of clinical areas, including:

Medical wards

Surgical wards

Admissions wards

Inpatient and outpatient dispensary

The department works on an extended hours, seven day pharmacy service on a rostered basis.

About us

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?

Job responsibilities

Job summary

Support dispensary services by checking stock and prescriptions, ordering medicines, dispensing, labelling, accuracy checking and counselling patients on their pharmaceutical needs.

Support ward-based activities by undertaking stock control, medication supply, medicines reconciliation, expediting medicines for patient discharge and utilising close liaison with ward pharmacists, medical and nursing teams.

Communication with patients to inform and coach them about their healthcare requirements.

Support improvements in patient safety, staff support and health and wellbeing.

Person Specification

Education & Qualification

• BTEC Pharm Science
• oNVQ Level 3 or equivalent
• oAccredited counselling award
• oA1 NVQ Assessor Award
• oManagerial Qualification or willing to work towards them
• oRegistered with the GPhC
• oRecognised IT qualification

Experience & Knowledge

• oExperience leading a team
• oExtensive recent experience of working in hospital
• oExperience in managing technicians/assistants in a Pharmacy environment.
• oExperience in training of Pharmacy staff
• oExpected to have an all-round knowledge of the technical aspects of hospital Pharmacy and a broad outlook of pharmaceutical issues
• oExperience of ePMA systems
• oExperience of working in community pharmacy
• oPrevious experience with working with Cerner Millennium build tools

Skills & Abilities

• oExcellent IT skills including Microsoft Office
• oCommunication skills (both verbal and written)
• oGood interpersonal skills
• oAbility to strategically develop the e-Care system as part of a team
• oAbility to influence staff within and outside the team and department
• oAbility to work to deadlines and to achieve agreed objectives
• oAbility to work in an organised and calm fashion in a busy environment
• oAbility to deal with members of the public and other health care workers in a professional manner
• oClose liaison with co-workers in the department is vital
• oAble to make decisions
• oCommitment to the team and patient care
• oOpen approach to new initiatives
• oTeam working (management and professional)
• oFlexibility to work in different sections of the department
• oPositive attitude towards personal / self development
• oParticipate in the Saturday, Sunday and bank holiday rota

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.

£39,959 to £48,117 a yearPer annum, pro rata