Senior Medicines Information Pharmacy Technician

You will be part of the medicines information team providing an enquiry-answering service to clinicians and patients in the region. The post is based at Frimley Park Hospital but may entail occasional travel to other sites within the Trust or to other organisations we currently deliver services to.
The award-winning medicines information department at Frimley Park Hospital provides service to several acute, mental health and community trusts across the region with plans to extend services further to support the Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System. You will work alongside Specialist Medicines Information Pharmacists and the Lead Medicines Information Pharmacist. You will also be involved in training and supervising junior staffs from across the region for their medicines information rotation.
Outside of medicines information, you will spend time working in other areas such as wards and dispensary, depending on departmental needs and your preference.
You will be enrolled to the Medicines Information and Advice Training Programme (MIATP) hosted by the UKMI and will be given opportunities to attend UKMI conferences as part of continuing professional development., + To participate in delivering a comprehensive Medicines Information Service, adhering to agreed standards and national guidelines
+ To assist the Lead Medicines Information Pharmacist in service monitoring and development
+ To supervise junior staff in medicines information providing advice and facilitation as required.
+ To support clinical pharmacy service and dispensary including weekends and late shifts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are looking for a highly motivated Pharmacy Technician to join our medicines information team, who is keen to learn and able to work in a team and independently. You will need to have previous NHS hospital pharmacy experience and ideally have experience in Medicines Information.
The successful candidate will possess strong communication, organisational and problem-solving skills to assist in the day-to-day management of the medicines information service. The post-holder will work closely with colleagues in the medicines information team.
This is a great opportunity for someone who is interested in developing their clinical knowledge and reasoning, you will be exposed to clinical enquiries with varying complexities originated from healthcare professionals and patients., The successful applicant will be highly motivated with excellent communication skills, possessing the ability to organise and plan their work. You must be a team player and able to work with a variety of healthcare professionals. The successful candidate will be supported through any future training needs including the UKMI Accredited Medicines Information and Advice Training Programme (MIATP).

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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