Job summary
Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician - Surgery & Critical Care
Division: Cancer and Core Clinical Services
Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies
Band: 6
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum/pro rata
We are recruiting for a Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician who shares our ambition and vision to deliver theBest of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen and for a forward-thinking Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician with extensive clinical knowledge and experience to join our Surgery and Critical Care team. Candidates should be highly motivated, a team player and able work under pressure. This is a unique opportunity for a pharmacy technician who is clinically experienced and has excellent leadership skills.
In this pivotal role, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient outcomes through medicines optimisation to ensure patient safety, and contribute to the development of innovative pharmacy services within care group.
This is an innovative role to utilise and further develop skills in leadership, team management and drive improvement and service delivery to support the clinical strategy for the department and trust.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.
About us
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of theBest of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B - Bold
E - Every person counts
S - Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be responsible for medicines management in their area of speciality, working with relevant pharmacy, medical and nursing staff to deliver high quality pharmacy services to the clinical area
To provide an advanced clinical pharmacy technician service to their speciality
Be a leading clinical pharmacy technician expert in a defined area of speciality agreed with the lead medicines management technician and lead clinical pharmacist for the area, collaboratively developing protocols and delivering the service (e.g. antimicrobial prescription review or Medical Infusion Suite (MIS) prescriptions.
Line manage and contribute to the education and training of pharmacy staff, being an educational and practice supervisor where required.
Proactively provide patient-facing services, including the counselling of patients.
To work with the multidisciplinary team to educate, train and develop materials to support medicines governance, optimisation, formulary, safety and pathways.
Review and present medicines use and expenditure data to drive change.
To identify and implement efficiencies in operational processes and medicines use to reduce medicines expenditure and system wastage.
Contribute to the department and Trusts audit and research agenda.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To be responsible for medicines management in their area of speciality, working with relevant pharmacy, medical and nursing staff to deliver high quality pharmacy services to the clinical area
To provide an advanced clinical pharmacy technician service to their speciality
Be a leading clinical pharmacy technician expert in a defined area of speciality agreed with the lead medicines management technician and lead clinical pharmacist for the area, collaboratively developing protocols and delivering the service (e.g. antimicrobial prescription review or Medical Infusion Suite (MIS) prescriptions.
Line manage and contribute to the education and training of pharmacy staff, being an educational and practice supervisor where required.
Proactively provide patient-facing services, including the counselling of patients.
To work with the multidisciplinary team to educate, train and develop materials to support medicines governance, optimisation, formulary, safety and pathways.
Review and present medicines use and expenditure data to drive change.
To identify and implement efficiencies in operational processes and medicines use to reduce medicines expenditure and system wastage.
Contribute to the department and Trusts audit and research agenda.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registrant of the general pharmaceutical council (GPhC)
- BTEC in pharmaceutical Science or NVQ LEVEL 3 in pharmacy services, or a GPHC recognised equivalent qualification
- Leadership/management qualification or relevant experience
- National Accredited Checking Technician qualification
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding and knowledge of NHS and how the intergrated care systems work.
- Understanding and knowledge of high cost drugs and blueteq process
- Knowledge of clinical practice at an advanced level. Or working towards
Experience
Essential
- Extensive medicines optimisation experience in a clinical setting
- Expert in completing patient consultations, counselling and documenting medicines reconciliations accurately
- Experience of managing staff, leadership
Skills
Essential
- Line management and supervisory skills
- Ability to advice, instruct, train, assess and appraisal of staff
Values Based Question
Essential
- Give an example of a time when you have gone the extra mile to help someone
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registrant of the general pharmaceutical council (GPhC)
- BTEC in pharmaceutical Science or NVQ LEVEL 3 in pharmacy services, or a GPHC recognised equivalent qualification
- Leadership/management qualification or relevant experience
- National Accredited Checking Technician qualification
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding and knowledge of NHS and how the intergrated care systems work.
- Understanding and knowledge of high cost drugs and blueteq process
- Knowledge of clinical practice at an advanced level. Or working towards
Experience
Essential
- Extensive medicines optimisation experience in a clinical setting
- Expert in completing patient consultations, counselling and documenting medicines reconciliations accurately
- Experience of managing staff, leadership
Skills
Essential
- Line management and supervisory skills
- Ability to advice, instruct, train, assess and appraisal of staff
Values Based Question
Essential
- Give an example of a time when you have gone the extra mile to help someone
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).
