Job summary
Are you searching for the next step in your pharmacy career? Are you highly motivated and passionate about patient and medication safety?
We're looking for an experienced registered pharmacy technician with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to join our Pharmacy Quality and Safety Team.
You'll have the opportunity to develop your leadership and management skills with incident review training, trend monitoring, project improvements and more. This role further expands to work within Aseptic services, providing a variety of experience. Your success is our success and we'll support you in all your training and development endeavours.
Working alongside the multidisciplinary teams, you'll help ensure continuous process review and patient safety improvement.
You will be required to work on the late night, weekend and bank holiday rotas. You will also be required to work flexibly.
For a more detailed overview of the role and person specification please see the supporting documents.
Main duties of the job
Your responsibilities will be to:
- To provide a comprehensive pharmacy service complying with the relevant legislation, good practice and following standard operating procedures.
- To assist the Pharmacy Quality and Safety Team in promoting medication safety and governance Trust Wide.
- Support pharmacy and nursing staff in analysing, reporting on, reflecting, and learning from medication incidents.
- Assist in the day-to-day organisation of the service provided by the pharmacy aseptic preparation unit (APU) for the trusts, involving delivery of chemotherapy, and CIVAs products for both adult and paediatric patients.
- Deputise for the Deputy Lead Pharmacy Technician: Aseptic Services and Lead Pharmacy Technician: Quality and Safety.
- Assist in the training and development of others and performance management required to deliver a consistent and high standard of service to patients.
- Be a champion and advocate for medication safety, supporting both Pharmacy and the wider Trust.
As a Trust we can offer you a wide range of benefits including:
- Excellent Education and Training
- Development opportunities
- Physiotherapy and Occupational Health Support
- Salary sacrifice scheme
- Unsocial Hours Payment
This role requires General Pharmaceutical Council Registration.
Base Location: Poole Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
About us
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and conditions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Reporting and reviewing medication incidents (LERNs) and sharing learning outcomes to reduce the risk of recurrence.
- Undertaking audits in clinical areas.
- Assisting with pharmacy staff Quality & Safety and Aseptic Training.
- Contributing to team meetings to improve medicines safety and governance.
- Suggesting changes to pharmacy practice and contribute to wider policies.
- To have specialised knowledge of Pharmacy operations within Cancer Services.
- Supervise and ensure that all areas of the aseptic unit are of an appropriate standard of cleanliness.
- To be a qualified designated aseptic checking Technician. To provide the final technical check for prepared cytotoxics/CIVAs products. This includes checking of ingredients, worksheet, label, drug volumes and product integrity. This is an unsupervised role taking responsibility for accuracy of final product provided.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Reporting and reviewing medication incidents (LERNs) and sharing learning outcomes to reduce the risk of recurrence.
- Undertaking audits in clinical areas.
- Assisting with pharmacy staff Quality & Safety and Aseptic Training.
- Contributing to team meetings to improve medicines safety and governance.
- Suggesting changes to pharmacy practice and contribute to wider policies.
- To have specialised knowledge of Pharmacy operations within Cancer Services.
- Supervise and ensure that all areas of the aseptic unit are of an appropriate standard of cleanliness.
- To be a qualified designated aseptic checking Technician. To provide the final technical check for prepared cytotoxics/CIVAs products. This includes checking of ingredients, worksheet, label, drug volumes and product integrity. This is an unsupervised role taking responsibility for accuracy of final product provided.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Pharmaceutical Science and BTEC in Pharmacy Services
- Registration to The General Pharmaceutical Council
- Accredited Checking Technician
Desirable
- Root cause analysis training
- Accredited Medicines Management Technician
Experience
Essential
- Working in primary or secondary care
- Extensive and broad experience as an NHS hospital pharmacy technician
- Good experience in delivering education and training to a variety of staff
- Good experience of undertaking audits, data collection and implementing change
Desirable
- Experience of delivering medicines safety improvements
Technical Skills Competencies
Essential
- Neat, accurate, numerate
- Basic I.T. skills
Desirable
- Experience using EPMA
- Knowledge of WellSky software
- Familiar with using Datix and extracting reports
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in Pharmaceutical Science and BTEC in Pharmacy Services
- Registration to The General Pharmaceutical Council
- Accredited Checking Technician
Desirable
- Root cause analysis training
- Accredited Medicines Management Technician
Experience
Essential
- Working in primary or secondary care
- Extensive and broad experience as an NHS hospital pharmacy technician
- Good experience in delivering education and training to a variety of staff
- Good experience of undertaking audits, data collection and implementing change
Desirable
- Experience of delivering medicines safety improvements
Technical Skills Competencies
Essential
- Neat, accurate, numerate
- Basic I.T. skills
Desirable
- Experience using EPMA
- Knowledge of WellSky software
- Familiar with using Datix and extracting reports
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
