Job summary
Are you a Pharmacy Technician with a passion for ensuring the safe and effective use of medicines? Do you thrive in a role that involves audit, assurance, and continuous improvement?
BPAS are looking for an experienced Pharmacy Technician to join our team as a Medicines Management Technician. This is a permanent, part time role working 22.5 hours over 3 days, Monday to Friday. This is a hybrid working arrangement with travel to BPAS units across the Midlands, South, and our stores in Redditch (travel expenses re-imbursed). More information can be found in the further information section below.
About the role:
As a Medicines Management Technician at BPAS, you will lead, support, and undertake assurance audits to enhance, implement, and embed an infrastructure ensuring robust and compliant systems and processes for medicines management. You will support staff in all aspects of medicines management, including documentation, administration, stock control, purchasing, safe storage, and waste management, adhering to ethical, legislative, and BPAS standards. Additionally, you will provide training to ensure compliance with legislative and BPAS standards, actively contributing to the promotion of safe and effective medicine use within the organisation.
If you would like more information on the role, or to have an informal chat with our Lead Pharmacist, please email Kalpesh Thakrar at kalpesh.thakrar@bpas.org
Main duties of the job
- Support clinical risk management with planning
and delivery of audit assurance programmes in relation to medicines management.
- Support and deliver the audits of storage,
distribution, and use of drugs across all BPAS sites, providing feedback
reporting and action plans.
- Directly support and undertake audits.
- Provide pharmaceutical
related technical advice around medicines management to a variety of sources.
- Support the maintenance
and update of the content of the drug formulary, ensuring it remains up to
date, suitable for BPAS.
- Provide/create and disseminate materials on
complex healthcare and medicines management matters.
About You:
We are seeking a Registered Pharmacy Technician with a minimum of three years' experience in hospital pharmacy. Your role will involve providing pharmaceutical-related technical advice, supporting clinical risk management through audit programs, and delivering training on medicines management. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, the ability to work independently and collaboratively, and a commitment to continuous professional development. You should be a self-starter, assertive, and inspire confidence, demonstrating a calm disposition even under pressure.
We are also looking for:
- Proficient
in conducting and delivering audits and feedback mechanisms
- Communicating clinical
information to all grades of healthcare professionals
- The ability to demonstrate an understanding of current pharmacy / NHS issues
About us
British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) is the UK's largest independent women's reproductive healthcare charity. We work mainly on behalf of the NHS across the country providing abortion, contraception, STI testing & treatment. We specialise in evidence-based, not-for-profit care reproductive healthcare.
Working with us:
Alongside a supportive and friendly working environment, BPAS has generous benefits: life assurance cover at 3 times salary, 34 days annual leave per year & a defined contribution pension scheme. You will have access to our employee benefits programme through BHSF which includes special health & wellbeing services & lifestyle offers for you & your family. This includes various salary sacrifice schemes, counselling services & free private GP appointments.
For our clinical roles, a full clinical training package will be provided along with comprehensive support. Nursing & midwifery colleagues will have the opportunity to train in 1st & 2nd trimester sonography scanning, contraception fitting & STI testing. For surgical units you will gain experience in conscious sedation & general anaesthetic treatment in our operating departments.
BPAS is committed to safeguarding & promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults, children & young people through a safer recruitment framework. This includes a thorough selection process & a number of pre-employment checks.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description and terms and conditions of the role can be found on the right hand side of the advert, under supporting documents. These are available for you to download and review.
Further Information:
Location: Home based with travel to BPAS units across the Midlands, South and our stores in Redditch (B98 7AS) - this will depend on business needs. Travel expenses will be re-imbursed.
For a full list of units, please download the terms and conditions document on the right hand side.
Salary: £35,395 to £50,056 per annum pro rata - depending on skills and experience.
Hours: 22.5 per week. 3 x 7.5 hour days to be worked across Monday to Friday. We are open and flexible regarding which days you work - more to be discussed at interview.
Interview date: 13th March at our Head Office in Leamington Spa:
Orion House, 2 Athena Dr, Tachbrook Park Dr, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwick CV34 6RQ
Interested so far? Don't delay, apply today!
This job advert may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.
The Small Print: All applicants must be pro-choice.
If you do not hear from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, unfortunately you will not have been shortlisted on this occasion.
References: All offers of employment are conditional based on satisfactory pre-employment checks. We require applicants to provide 3 years of employment references including information on reasons for leaving and any gaps in employment.
COVID-19: BPAS encourages all applicants to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and we invite you to share evidence of your vaccination status. This is in addition to the requirement to provide evidence of vaccination/immunity against the following conditions of Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, MMR and Varicella for clinical roles directly involved in patient care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description and terms and conditions of the role can be found on the right hand side of the advert, under supporting documents. These are available for you to download and review.
Further Information:
Location: Home based with travel to BPAS units across the Midlands, South and our stores in Redditch (B98 7AS) - this will depend on business needs. Travel expenses will be re-imbursed.
For a full list of units, please download the terms and conditions document on the right hand side.
Salary: £35,395 to £50,056 per annum pro rata - depending on skills and experience.
Hours: 22.5 per week. 3 x 7.5 hour days to be worked across Monday to Friday. We are open and flexible regarding which days you work - more to be discussed at interview.
Interview date: 13th March at our Head Office in Leamington Spa:
Orion House, 2 Athena Dr, Tachbrook Park Dr, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwick CV34 6RQ
Interested so far? Don't delay, apply today!
This job advert may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.
The Small Print: All applicants must be pro-choice.
If you do not hear from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, unfortunately you will not have been shortlisted on this occasion.
References: All offers of employment are conditional based on satisfactory pre-employment checks. We require applicants to provide 3 years of employment references including information on reasons for leaving and any gaps in employment.
COVID-19: BPAS encourages all applicants to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and we invite you to share evidence of your vaccination status. This is in addition to the requirement to provide evidence of vaccination/immunity against the following conditions of Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, MMR and Varicella for clinical roles directly involved in patient care.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum three years experience of working in hospital pharmacy
- Significant post qualification experience working as a registered technician
- Clinical audit/drug evaluation/practice research and the promotion of evidence-based practice
- Managing and analysing drug reports and where applicable expenditure
Desirable
- Working in the independent/charitable or private sector
- Working in a similar role
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate an understanding of current pharmacy /NHS issues
- Knowledge of regulations and legislation relevant to area of practice
- Good clinical and operational pharmacy knowledge
- Ability to locate and support reports required for prescribing data and can attend and where applicable present information in an informative manner to a wide range of individuals in written and oral forms.
- High level of report writing and presentation skills.
Desirable
- Provision of abortion and sexual and reproductive health in the UK
- Awareness of law and good practice related to storage and handling of medicines
- Knowledge of primary care, community pharmacy independent charity services
General
Essential
- Do you support a woman's right to choose abortion?
- Are you the family or friend of a current BPAS employee? If yes, please state the name and the nature of the relationship
- This role is working 22.5 hours per week over 3 days. Can you commit to this?
- You will be required to travel to BPAS units across the Midlands, South, as well as our Stores in Redditch - this will depend on business needs. Can you commit to travelling?
Desirable
- Please state any further information in support of your application
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a Pharmacy Technician - please provide registration number
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical technical procedures for specialist area acquired through training, NVQ Level 3, BTEC in pharmaceutical science or equivalent.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum three years experience of working in hospital pharmacy
- Significant post qualification experience working as a registered technician
- Clinical audit/drug evaluation/practice research and the promotion of evidence-based practice
- Managing and analysing drug reports and where applicable expenditure
Desirable
- Working in the independent/charitable or private sector
- Working in a similar role
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate an understanding of current pharmacy /NHS issues
- Knowledge of regulations and legislation relevant to area of practice
- Good clinical and operational pharmacy knowledge
- Ability to locate and support reports required for prescribing data and can attend and where applicable present information in an informative manner to a wide range of individuals in written and oral forms.
- High level of report writing and presentation skills.
Desirable
- Provision of abortion and sexual and reproductive health in the UK
- Awareness of law and good practice related to storage and handling of medicines
- Knowledge of primary care, community pharmacy independent charity services
General
Essential
- Do you support a woman's right to choose abortion?
- Are you the family or friend of a current BPAS employee? If yes, please state the name and the nature of the relationship
- This role is working 22.5 hours per week over 3 days. Can you commit to this?
- You will be required to travel to BPAS units across the Midlands, South, as well as our Stores in Redditch - this will depend on business needs. Can you commit to travelling?
Desirable
- Please state any further information in support of your application
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) as a Pharmacy Technician - please provide registration number
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical technical procedures for specialist area acquired through training, NVQ Level 3, BTEC in pharmaceutical science or equivalent.
