Bank Lead Pharmacy Technician

We are recruiting a qualified pharmacy technician (ideally with experience of hospital procurement) to work with our team. You will be involved in the final accuracy check of prescriptions, ordering medicines from wholesalers, supervising other staff and s You will be recruited as Trust bank staff, giving the opportunity to work additional shifts as needed.,

• To lead, develop and effectively manage all procurement activities within the Pharmacy Department to support the effective delivery of medicines management within BDCFT.Key areas of responsibility being managing the Pharmacy stock control system by monitoring, reviewing, and analysing stock activity with the aim to optimise stock control, reduce costs, reduce waste, and verify savings
• To ensure that all procurement is undertaken in accordance with Good Distribution Practice
• To ensure all procurement complies with local, regional, and national contracts
• To support the Chief Technician and other Lead Technicians on the training and delivery of medicines management and technical pharmacy services to mental health inpatient and community services.
• To assist the Chief Pharmacy Technician in maintaining appropriate staffing levels of technical staffing to match workload, producing weekly rotas, amending to reflect unforeseen absences, and handling annual leave requests.
• To promote further development of the pharmacy technician's role within the Trust by acting as co-ordinator for dispensing, medicines reconciliation and accuracy checking processes
• To support the senior pharmacists in development and review of the pharmacy service.
  
  Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including : Increase mileage rates for > 3500 A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities Plus many more. We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.