Lead Pharmacy Technician - Medicines Management

Job summary

The post holder will be responsible for leading and managing a team of medicines management pharmacy technicians (MMPTs) and medicines management pharmacy assistants (MMATOs) at Northwick Park Hospital. They will also support the Principal Pharmacy Technician- Clinical Services in developing, maintaining, monitoring, and standardising the medicines management services across the Trust. Key responsibilities of the post will be:

o To be responsible for the provision of a highly efficient medicines management service to a variety of wards within the Acute/ED, Medicine, Surgical, Care of the Elderly and Women's and Children's departments.

o Promote a safe, efficient, and cost-effective use of medicines at ward level.

o Support the provision and expansion of the medicines management pharmacy technician service across Northwick Park Hospital.

o To line manage members of staff performing regular one to ones, accompanied ward visits and annual appraisals.

o To support the Principal Pharmacy Technician, Clinical Services in the development and implementation of all training packs and policies related to medicines management.

o To be responsible for own Continuing Professional Development and the education and training of the medicines management team.

o Facilitate the induction, training, supervision and support of new members of ward-based pharmacy staff.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity for a Lead Pharmacy Technician Medicines Management to join our dynamic, innovative and friendly team dedicated to improving our ward based clinical pharmacy services. We are looking for someone with experience and a passion in this area of work in hospital pharmacy. You must be an enthusiastic, motivated and a patient orientated pharmacy technician dedicated to patient safety. You will work with and lead the medicines management team to help implement, deliver and continually improve the technical and clinical support to wards and satellite units.You will need to have excellent communication skills and enjoy working as part of a large multi-disciplinary team. You will also need to be friendly, approachable, adaptable, flexible, willing to learn new skills and be committed to continuous professional development. You will be a pharmacy technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council Pharmacy Technician and have experience of line managing other members of staff.This is a full time post and the post holder will be required to participate in the weekend working and late duties as per rota.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.