Job summary
Are you an enthusiastic, motivated and committed pharmacy technician? If so we would like you to join our mental health pharmacy team.
You will need to have the skills to be able to work within the wider multi-disciplinary team of nurses and doctors and other allied healthcare professionals and managers. You will want to develop and improve the reliability and quality of our clinical pharmacy service. You will need to have specific experience working with pharmacy teams and patients within the mental health setting.
You will lead on the provision of pharmacy services in City and Hackney, including forensic services and neighbourhood recovery teams. You will also provide support to the medicines management technicians and pharmacists, provide operational support where required, provide a clinical pharmacy service to inpatient wards and work with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of a safe and effective service to mental health patients in our directorate. You will have a particular role in implementing and monitoring the clinical pharmacy standards and working closely with the Pharmacy Services Manager to identify service gaps. You will be responsible for areas of service and line management of pharmacists and technicians. You will also be involved in working with the other lead pharmacists in undertaking and developing audits and projects to evaluate and improve services alongside pharmacy and trust priorities and objectives.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to work with the City & Hackney (E9) and Forensics Pharmacy team (E9 and N4) to help deliver high quality pharmacy optimisation service to patients of the trust. They are to maintain their ACPT qualification and dispensary skills via their allocated dispensary slots at the Dispensary in Mile End Hospital.
This post can be offered as permanent, fixed term or as a secondment opportunity due a variety of internal vacancies available.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see JD (Job Description) and PS (Personal Specification) for full details of role requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see JD (Job Description) and PS (Personal Specification) for full details of role requirements.
Person Specification
EDUCATION/ QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- BTEC/ City & Guilds/NVQ3 pharmacy or equivalent
- MOPs Accredited ( or working towards) ward technician
- RegPharmTech
- An accredited checking Pharmacy technician (ACPT) or working towards
SKILLS/ ABILITIES
Essential
- Able to work as part of a team
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Demonstrates good written and oral communication skills with service users and health care professionals
- Good Analytical skills
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to motivate self and others
- Good problem solving skills
Desirable
- Able to monitor, review and develop service standards
- Use of Microsoft Excel/Word to intermediate level
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience in hospital pharmacy post qualification
- Success in a previous post requiring completion of work to deadlines
- Drug history taking
- Ward based clinical work
Desirable
- Working within a multidisciplinary team
- Implemented/provided a Self Administration Scheme
- Experience in tutoring and training
- Previous experience of audit
KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Ideas of how ward services may develop over the next few years and the factors that may effect these developments
- Awareness of the issues around quality and customer care
- Awareness of risk management issues
- Understanding of the discharge process
Desirable
- Range of drug therapies
- Awareness of pharmacy related issues in regard to Self Administration Schemes
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
Essential
- Enthusiastic
- Decisive
- Calm under pressure
- Adaptable
- Committed to providing high quality, user friendly services
- Customer oriented
- Good Timekeeping
- Smart appearance
- Weekend & Bank Holiday working
Person Specification
EDUCATION/ QUALIFICATIONS
Essential
- BTEC/ City & Guilds/NVQ3 pharmacy or equivalent
- MOPs Accredited ( or working towards) ward technician
- RegPharmTech
- An accredited checking Pharmacy technician (ACPT) or working towards
SKILLS/ ABILITIES
Essential
- Able to work as part of a team
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Demonstrates good written and oral communication skills with service users and health care professionals
- Good Analytical skills
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to motivate self and others
- Good problem solving skills
Desirable
- Able to monitor, review and develop service standards
- Use of Microsoft Excel/Word to intermediate level
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Experience in hospital pharmacy post qualification
- Success in a previous post requiring completion of work to deadlines
- Drug history taking
- Ward based clinical work
Desirable
- Working within a multidisciplinary team
- Implemented/provided a Self Administration Scheme
- Experience in tutoring and training
- Previous experience of audit
KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Ideas of how ward services may develop over the next few years and the factors that may effect these developments
- Awareness of the issues around quality and customer care
- Awareness of risk management issues
- Understanding of the discharge process
Desirable
- Range of drug therapies
- Awareness of pharmacy related issues in regard to Self Administration Schemes
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
Essential
- Enthusiastic
- Decisive
- Calm under pressure
- Adaptable
- Committed to providing high quality, user friendly services
- Customer oriented
- Good Timekeeping
- Smart appearance
- Weekend & Bank Holiday working
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).
