Senior Technician Pharmacy Assurance | University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

As an experienced hospital Pharmacy Technician are you ready to enhance your career and join our enthusiastic and committed team? The recent changes within our technical team have created an exciting opportunity for a motivated and dedicated individual. Here at University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust we continually strive to develop our technical roles, providing opportunities to be innovative, drive change and improve job satisfaction. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting pharmacy assurance, including areas such as our Wholesaler Dealers License and Business Continuity Plan, working collaboratively with our governance and operational team. The post holder will oversee departmental change requests and action logs. This role requires excellent planning skills, whilst embracing the challenges of compliance and engaging the pharmacy teams, continually exploring potential for improving/developing services and patient experience. In 2018 we fully automated all our medication storage on wards (72 Omnicells and growing), this was the first part of our move towards our longer term automation strategy. The next phase is to automate our main dispensary ready for the new Trust EPR system. This is an exciting time to join this journey as we move towards being fully automated across all our activities; prescribing, clinical screening, dispensing and storage. The post holder will work closely with Dispensary and Ward Services Managers and will be supported and mentored by the Operational and Technical Lead for Pharmacy. As an expanding and busy service there will always be opportunities to stretch and develop, the only moderation being the pace you want to set, support from SLT being implicit. If the advert interests you please take some time to read the attached JD/Person Spec and structure chart, for a detailed view of what kind of technician we are looking for. Interested and considering applying? We would encourage you to get in touch with us to arrange an informal discussion and/or visit., The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

• To monitor departmental change requests and action logs, supporting the Operational Team and ensuring compliance is met.
• To support the automated medicines cabinets (Omnicells) team in the management and compliance of the automated drug cabinets to ensure that medicines management and legislation is complied with.
• To support the implementation of new pharmacy processes, ensuring appropriate change control is utilised and regulated to deliver the Pharmacy Medicines Optimisation Strategy.
• To support the pharmacy Governance & Safety Team with Datix investigations and provide the SLT with assurance of relevant preventative or corrective actions.
• To support the management of the Pharmacy electronic quality management software system.
• To support the pharmacy Operations & Technical Lead in the review and validation of the pharmacy Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Major Incident Plan (MIP).
• As part of the Assurance Calendar, create and manage a validation schedule, ensuring annual system or process challenges are carried out.
• To support the pharmacy Governance & Safety and Operational Teams to ensure pharmacy staff are working to safe standards, meeting legislation for medicine requirements and the safe custody of medicines.
• To support the Ward Services Operational Manager to ensure regular audits of medicines management technical services are undertaken, supporting actions for ward manager or modern matrons to achieve compliance.
• Responsible for the review and auditing of all relevant Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) and Clinical Operating Procedures (COP's) for the operational delivery in the dispensaries, and stores areas on both sites (UHCW & Rugby St Cross).
• Responsible for ensuring all mandatory inspections and audits relating to the Wholesaler Dealer License and Quality systems for the clinical areas are completed, documented and reported back to the RP.
• To work with the pharmacy IT/EPR team, ensuring regular system challenges form part of the Assurance calendar and contingency plans are fit for purpose.
• To work with the Dispensary and Stores Operational Manager and Procurement Manager to ensure the goods receipt area is regularly inspected for WDL compliance along with annual supplier qualification criteria.
  
  University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do. Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare. We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence®designated organisation - please click the link for further details about this prestigious award.Pathway To Excellence ® - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk) By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.