Band 5 Clinical Pharmacy Technician

This is an exciting opportunity to join the pharmacy service as the clinical pharmacy technician for Children and Young People at Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust. You will be responsible for delivery of a high quality clinical Pharmacy service and supporting the Medicine Optimisation agenda., To assist the Lead Pharmacist for Children and Young People in the delivery of clinical technical services to Children and Young People. Provide medicines Drug History and reconciliation support to the clinical pharmacy team. They will assist in the updating of procedures; partake in audits and systems for the monitoring, organisation and supply of medicines during the patient's admission and discharge.

You will support the ward pharmacy service as part of a multidisciplinary team, provide training to a range of staff and support the lead pharmacist for the Children and Young People across both of our acute sites.We are looking for an experienced and forward-thinking Pharmacy Technician with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills. You will play a major role in the improvement and development of pharmacy services, embracing new technologies and opportunities, so that the service continues to evolve to meet the demands of our service users in a changing NHS.

You must be registered with the GPhC and have experience in general medicines management roles including medicines reconciliation, assessment of patients own medicines, counselling and supply of medicines, etc.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.