Progressive Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.

Are you a motivated pharmacy technician? Are you dedicated to improving NHS patient's care and safety? Are you looking for development opportunities to enhance your career? If yes then apply here!

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a developing pharmacy technician to join a dynamic clinical pharmacy team to deliver operational and clinical pharmacy services to the patients and staff at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

This is a progression post, initially working as a clinical pharmacy technician (band 4), whilst completing the relevant training to become a certified medicines management technician. The post holder will have a maximum of 36 months from the date of employment to complete this training, and quality support and guidance will be provided from the organisation to complete this. Upon successful completion of the training, the post holder will be automatically promoted to a MMT role (band 5).

If the successful candidate already possesses the desired qualifications then they will start at a band 5 level.

Main duties of the job

You will be a key member of the ward pharmacy teams across an array of clinical specialities. Some examples of clinical speciality areas includes: cardiology, acute medicine, older persons medicine, neurology, general surgery, general medicine, trauma & orthopaedics, oncology, haematology, and paediatrics. This is an exceptional opportunity to strengthen your clinical knowledge and become an expert within these specialties. For those wanting to further enhance their career, there are numerous opportunities within this post to additionally develop your leadership and management skills.

The suitable candidate will need to have a breadth of pharmacy experience, preferably in a hospital setting, with the proven ability to perform as a team player.

Applicants must be a Pharmacy Technician, registered with GPhC. We will accept applications from pre-registration technicians qualifying in 2025.

The successful candidates will work full time hours 8.30am-5pm Monday - Friday. They will also be included in dispensary and extended/out-of-hours rotas, which are currently:

• Weekend working once every 5 weeks (9am-5pm Saturday or Sunday, reimbursed with a full weekday off the following week)
• Late night working once every 2 weeks (hours 9am-5.30pm instead of 8.30am-5pm)
• Contribution to bank holiday working rota

Please note this post will close at sufficient applicants.

About us

Leadership and Improvement Training

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to

Explore leadership within the NHS

Promote Trust Values and Behaviours

Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills

Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The James Cook University Hospital

Marton Road

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW

Employer's website

https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The James Cook University Hospital

Marton Road

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW

Employer's website

https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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