Senior Pharmacy Technician- Procurement Support, Band 5

We welcome applications from GPhC registered Pharmacy Technicians and those who are due to qualify within the next 3 months pending successful completion of their training, and who have had hospital pharmacy experience within that training.

This is an exciting and varied role with the opportunity to make the best use of numerous core pharmacy skills, including the chance to get leadership experience.

This specialist role will support the Senior Technician in Distribution , Stores & Procurement daily as required.

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., 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.

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