Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

At the University Hospital Wales, our patients are at the heart of everything we do. We are dedicated to delivering the best quality care to our localcommunities and need committed and skilled people to help achieve this.

Are you a registered Pharmacy Technician or Pre-Registration Pharmacy Technician qualifying soon?

Are you pro-active and ambitious about providing exceptional care and experience for patients?

If then answer is yes, the Pharmacy Department is currently recruiting for a Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician to join our team. This is an exciting opportunity to work directly with patients, supporting medicines independence and identifying appropriate aids or solutions to enable safe medicines management on discharge. To facilitate the medication discharge ensuring safe ongoing supplies of medicines in the community. To undertake medicines administration for an identified cohort of patients in an identified area.

Whilst ACT and Medicines Management qualifications are required for this post, we welcome applicants who wish to work towards these qualifications and full training will be provided. During training the contract will be Annex 21: 75% of a Band 5 for up to 12 months until qualifications in both ACT and Medicines Management are achieved.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic Pharmacy Technician to join our friendly Medicines Management Team at University Hospital Wales, Cardiff.

The role will involve working as an integral part of our Medicines Management Pharmacy team, delivering a patient-orientated Medicines Management service and working closely with our patients to aid medicines administration, support medicines independence and facilitate complex medicines discharge situations discharge across the Health board.

You will need to be a GPhC registered Pharmacy Technician or working towards qualifying within 3 months, with excellent organisational and communication skills and a passion for providing a Patient focused service.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving over 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.

Our mission is "Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together", and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. Our 10-year transformation and improvement strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, is our chance to work collaboratively with the public and our workforce to make our health board more sustainable for the future.