Pharmacy Technician

UNLOCK YOUR BEST WORK LIFE + make a difference for every patient Are you a Pharmacy Technician looking to join an organisation that strives to practice exceptional healthcare every day and is passionate about delivering first class care to our patients? Then we want to hear from you. We are looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic pharmacy technician to support our on-site and national pharmacy teams and our chief pharmacist at our Barlborough site. This role would be Ideal for someone who has worked on a High street or community Pharmacy who is looking to move in a Hospital based role This role is 7.5 hours a week working on a Saturday You will be working under the supervision of the Site Pharmacy site Lead and pharmacists, and will liaise directly with the multi-disciplinary team to provide a high quality pharmacy and medicines management services. You will be required to provide direct medicines management to all clinical areas at Shepton Mallet Hospital including; medicines procurement, distribution, medicines top up, dispensing, and stock control and maintenance as well as conducting medicines and pharmacy audits in line with the hospital audit cycle. You will contribute fully to the weekly provision of the medicines replenishment service to all clinical areas ensuring each specific location is adequately stocked. This will include periodic stock check, creating orders and issuing them to clinical areas to ensure timely supply. Co-ordinate, process and deliver ad-hoc and urgent stock requests ensuring that stock levels are efficiently maintained Generate transaction reports from automated medicines storage system in UTC and to investigate discrepancies. To monitor the local usage of drugs that are desirable/abusable and to help highlight and investigate unexplained changes in usage patterns, We perform other duties on a day to day basis such as medicines management, in possession risk assessments, and prescription & stock management. I feel like I have developed on all of these skills since working at Practice Plus Group.

• NVQ Level 2/3 in Pharmacy Services or equivalent
• Able to achieve competencies for job role including in house training and validations
• Experience of working in a pharmacy environment
• Experience of working with medicines/pharmacy procurement, distribution
• Proven customer service experience
• Hospital pharmacy experience (or Community Pharmacy) experience in areas of Medicines Management
  
  Award winning ED&I programme
Free access to Reward Gateway discount scheme Access to private health insurance Wide range of 'time away from work' allowances Extensive career development and training opportunities