Employer: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Nottingham City Hospital
Town: Nottingham
Salary: £35,392 - £42,618 pa
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/10/2024 23:59
Band 6
Job overview
We have a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and experienced pharmacy technician, to join our new EPMA team at one of the largest and busiest tertiary referral teaching trusts in the country.
Under the direction of the Lead Pharmacist and as part of the wider pharmacy and multidisciplinary team you will use your technical pharmacy knowledge in the system build, configuration and on-going maintenance of this exciting technology, ensuring pharmacy and the wider hospital realise its full potential to improve medicines optimisation and patient safety.
The successful candidate will have an interest in IT systems, be able to work independently as well as part of a team, be conscientious, and be able to prioritise their own workload effectively while displaying excellent attention to detail. You will have good communication skills and be confident in the multi-disciplinary environment. A strong clinical background and experience of other IT prescribing systems or information manipulation would be an advantage.
Main duties of the job
Under the leadership and direction of the Lead Pharmacist – Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA):
1. Responsible for the development, configuration, testing, implementation, on-going maintenance and management of the Trust’s EPMA system and relevant digital medicines systems.
2. To work with the Lead EPMA Pharmacist and the multi-disciplinary EPMA project and Digital Nurse teams in delivering the outputs required for implementation project and ongoing optimisation and support; ensuring robust, safe, effective, auditable processes and systems are in place in line with national standards and local policy and procedures.
3. To proactively lead, develop co-ordinate and deliver any aspect of pharmacy education/training on how Pharmacy staff interact with the EPMA system to perform their duties.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
* General Pharmaceutical Council Registered Pharmacy Technician.
* Current dispensary accuracy checking pharmacy technician (accredited or proof of in house training)
* GCSE Grade B/5 or higher in maths (or equivalent)
* GCSE Grade B/5 or higher in Computer science (or equivalent)
* GCSE Grade C/4 or equivalent in English, and Science (or equivalent)
Experience
* Substantial hospital pharmacy experience
* Relevant experience in a senior technician role responsible for managing staff, services or resources
* Knowledge and experience of service improvement, change management and service development techniques
* Substantial experience and knowledge of pharmacy stock control systems gained through significant relevant post qualification experience
* Experience of teaching/training staff at all levels
* Experience of risk management and audit
* Previous experience of working with an EPMA system
* Evidence of project management
Communication and Relationship Skills
* Good interpersonal, negotiating, influencing and presentation skills - written and verbal
* Management and team building skills
* Good communication skills with multi-disciplinary team members and pharmacy healthcare professionals and an ability to receive and deliver complex information in a usable format
* Effective staff and performance management skills
Analytical and Judgement skills
* Able to assess and minimise risk in stores and dispensary services
Planning and organisation skills
* Good organisational skills – able to prioritise, direct, coordinate and motivate others
* Shows qualities of leadership in meeting targets of time, cost, quality and performance
* Flexibility to deal with competing demands and interruptions
Physical Skills
* Experience in use of word processing packages and spreadsheets/databases
* Competent in use of spreadsheets and large databases
Closing Dates
Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.
Communication
All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.
Disability Confidence
All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.
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