Senior Pharmacy Technician - Procurement

An exciting opportunity to enter the world of Pharmacy Procurement and its many careers options. The post holder will assist in the management of the pharmacy procurement services for Derby and Burton. Co-ordination of the service ensuring suppliers are contacted regularly regarding supply chain problems and shortages, and the information is shared with the pharmacy teams Support the Chief Pharmacy Technician in the day to day management of the pharmacy procurement service. Ensure adequate staffing levels and skill mix are maintained and to escalate to the Chief Technicians if any short falls are identified. Oversee the maintenance of weekly shortage reports detailing up to date information on product availability is communicated to the UHDB pharmacy teams., Responsible for items owing to other pharmacy areas are reviewed, ordering stock when necessary or arranging alternative products, this will include checking outstanding orders from suppliers with the assistance from the Procurement Administrator. Assist the Chief Technicians with the recruitment, return to work, annual leave allocation and annual appraisal of delegated staff ensuring records are accurately maintained Supports effective stock control through the appropriate procurement within Pharmacy. Support in the management of reviewing drug alerts from the MHRA, pharmaceutical industry and other agencies. Assist in the maintenance and development of unlicensed policy and procedures, assisting in the creation of specification sheets for unlicensed medicines. Pharmacy Procurement is an essential part of the Pharmacy Service ensuring medicines are always available for our patients at UHDB. This post offers a Pharmacy Technician with ambition and drive an exciting opportunity to enter the world of pharmacy procurement that can provide many career options. The pharmacy procurement team are friendly and welcoming, and work hard to ensure medicines are always available at both sites, they are very successful at finding alternative solutions when products are in short supply. By joining the team you will be providing additional support and opportunities to develop and enhance the service.

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work. In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car scheme
Key Facts about our Trust:
• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.