Senior Pharmacy Technician- Controlled Drugs Management & Procurement

This person is directly responsible for supporting the Controlled Drug Accountable Officer (CDAO) to maintain compliance to the Trust's Home Office CD License. This will involve several hours a week dedicated to tasks in relation to this responsibility, such as investigating balance discrepancies, delivering training and ensuring that SOPs are maintained and kept in-line with current legislation or best practice.

Additionally to this they will support the Senior Technician in Procurement daily to manage the Pharmacy Purchasing service.

Furthermore, they will make a valuable contribution to patient services as an Medicines Optimisation Technician, and with Accuracy Checking responsibilities within Dispensary as per agreed job plan., This person will lead the management of Controlled Drugs (CDs) at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital; including investigating and resolving stock and computer discrepancies, organising and facilitating the CD stock balance checks and CD destruction, and organising and facilitating CD training for pharmacy staff.

They will undertake general pharmaceutical duties under the supervision of a Section Manager or deputy, assisting in the provision of a safe and effective Pharmacy service in line with current policies, procedures and legal requirements.

They will provide support to the Senior Pharmacy Technician as required to enable the day-to-day running of the Distribution & Stores service and/or pharmacy purchasing office as required.

They will work in the dispensary, to dispense a range of prescriptions and provide Accuracy Checking as per agreed job plan.

As per agreed job plan they will work within patient services undertaking medicines optimisation/discharge duties on the wards, improving the quality of care to patients in a clinical area by means of an efficient medicines optimisation system. This will include undertaking medicines reconciliation, assessing patients own medicines ensuring they are suitable for use in hospital, one-stop dispensing to wards in preparation for patients discharge, maintaining and ordering non-stock medicines for patients and counselling patients on use of their medicines and providing information where required.

The role requires strong attention to detail and tenacity for investigating and fixing problems.

They will be a self-starter and need to demonstrate that they can work autonomously and manage their own time well, whilst fitting in with the wider team priorities.

With a team of over 9,000 employees, we are proud to be the largest employer in Gloucestershire and rank among the top 10 largest Trusts in the South West region. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from an excellent package that includes exclusive benefits, flexible working opportunities and the chance to gain valuable experience in one of our innovative hospitals.Both hospitals are located in the city centres with access to shops and cafes.

The pharmacy department has approximately 240 staff. The 2 sites provide dispensary services to inpatients & outpatients, medicines information, procurement services and full clinical service to wards; the onsite aseptic and manufacturing services are centralised at CGH.

Pharmacy is at the forefront of many exciting projects including an award-winning service provided by pharmacist prescribers in orthopaedic pre-admission clinic.

Within the department are specialist clinical teams; the Specialist Mental Health Pharmacy facilitates delivery of Specialist services for Mental Health & Learning Disabilities. The cancer services team provide a pharmacy service at both sites for oncology & haematology and satellite pharmacy.

We are a friendly, inclusive department who wish to nurture and develop our staff at all grades, from a mentoring programme for band 6 pharmacists to the development of pharmacist prescribers