Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

Band 5 Pharmacy Technician Higher Level

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Job summary

Welcome to Defence Primary Healthcare! We are a dedicated and inclusive organisation working hard to provide excellent care to our entitled personnel.

Are you a Pharmacy Technician dedicated to delivering high quality service? Do you have excellent interpersonal and communication skills as well as organisation and the ability to work independently? This could be for you! We are looking for a Band 5 Pharmacy Technician to join our multidisciplinary team at Cambrai Lines, Catterick Garrison.

This is a full time role consisting of 37.5 hours per week. If you're interested, please read on and apply.

Benefits

An NHS Pension
Free parking
An inclusive working environment
Access to a gym

Main duties of the job

Pharmaceutical services contribute to the Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) mission by the provision of a clinical and professional service at Medical Centre (MC) level. The successful candidate will be required to work across two Dispensaries in the Catterick Medical Centre (CMC) and the Infantry Training Centre (ITC) Catterick as part of a team of Pharmacy Technicians. The main location will be the CMC Catterick as part of a 3 - 4 person team rotating through the ITC Catterick as necessary.

The post is unsupervised and requires the post holder to jointly manage the day to day running of the dispensary at CMC Catterick or ITC Catterick. You would be responsible for delivering a consistently high-quality dispensary service and assists in the delivery of an effective medicines management service to entitled personnel within the multi-disciplinary medical centre and on behalf of the Senior Medical Officers.

About us

Our success depends on our people our Whole Force, regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.

Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.

In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.

If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.

Date posted

26 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year (pro rata for part time)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share

Reference number

K0003-24-0116

Job locations

Cambrai Lines

Munster Bks

Catterick Garrison

North Yorkshire

DL9 3PZ

Infantry Training Centre

Catterick

North Yorkshire

DL9 3LS

Job description

Job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities of the role include, but are not limited to:

Providing safe and accurate dispensing service to patients under the care of the Senior Medical Officer (SMO) and Defence Primary Healthcare.
Assisting in the delivery of an effective medicines management service.
Communicating professionally with medical and non-medical prescribers regarding any prescription anomalies, ambiguities or supply issues. Also communicating information as needed to patients, parents and carers regarding prescribed medicines, further supplies, and prescription payments
Procurement, receipt, safe custody, and appropriate storage of all medicinal products including Controlled Drugs following current legislation and DPHC.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

Selection Process and Further Details

The sift will be completed within 5 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

The selection at sift stage will be based on your CV. At interview, you will be tested against the following NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework:

NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
NHS Core NHSC2 Personal & People Development
NHS Core NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
NHS Core NHSC4 Service Improvement
NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
NHS Core NHSC6 Equality and Diversity

For queries regarding the advert and selection process, please direct your queries to Kim Wakeham on kim.wakeham590@mod.gov.uk

For professional related queries, please direct them to Professional Lead Christopher Perry onChristopher.Perry105@mod.gov.uk.

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

Requests to work flexibly and/or part time will be considered, taking into account business needs.

All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

Please note the salary will be pro-rata where part time hours are undertaken.

Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form.

Please see the link to our Youtube channel for advice preparing your best responses with some hints and tips on answering behaviour based questions. Hints and tips such as: Your behaviours can be based on situations from work, volunteering or home; match your situation to the behaviour requested and how to use your 250-word limit.

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If found successful for this position, you will be required to provide evidence of your immunity to Hepatitis B. Failure to provide evidence of your immunity may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn.

To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

Access to the NHS pension scheme is available to the successful candidate.

There is no requirement to deploy as this is met by our uniformed personnel, but you will form the continuity of care required by our patients when based at home.

This post does not offer any assistance with relocation allowances.

We encourage all our employees and prospective ones to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 subject to any exemptions that may apply. Please see the attached further information document for full details.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative, Making the Civil Service a Great Place to Work for Veterans - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcingteam@mod.gov.uk.