As this is a new role you will be able to bring your own experience or just your appetite for helping to build and shape an excellent service. If that sounds like you - wed love to hear from you! A recent expansion has secured funding for 22.5hours (0.6wte) of a Band 5 pharmacy technician to help deliver our services across over 30 theatres and six critical care areas. As a regional centre for Neurology, Cardiology and Trauma patients we have a busy dept, providing care to patients far and wide.If you have a passion for ensuring patient safety, have good IT skills and enjoy problem solving, do make contact and discuss the role further.You will support the pharmacy teams with:- Drug histories.- Ordering and supplying medicines- Stock shortage management.- CD audits- Supporting the development of trainee pharmacy staff- Developing our patient safety focus- Project work.- Teaching Are your a registered pharmacy technician who is looking to do something a bit different? Would you like to support patients on the first part of their journey in hospital? Then come and join us! We have a friendly and developing team consisting of registered Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacists and Pharmacy Support Workers who work alongside trainees. We challenge each other to be better every single day, while improving our services to meet the ever-changing needs of our diverse patient base. The Medicines Management team operate between 8.00am and 4.30pm each day, working in the inpatient dispensary until 7pm fortnightly. You will be required to join our weekend and bank holidays rota so we can continue to offer our services every day of the year. Flexible working hours and days of working will be considered. You will get the chance to experience a wide variety of tasks, building your knowledge and skill base while providing excellent patient care. Training and study time is fully supported, as well as the opportunity to build a network of colleagues across the UK and beyond. We have a strong focus on developing our staff with in-house competencies, leadership skills and exposure to management for junior staff. As a department we have an ethos for continuing professional development and training for all our staff. The post-holder will be required to undertake further study in: In-house competencies Medicines Management course (accredited) Accredited Checking Pharmacy Technician course Patient counselling course Individual personal development plans and much more! - Providing medicines management or other technical information to healthcare professionals both within and externally to the trust to ensure continuity of care. Communicating with other health care professionals regarding difficulties in supplying medicines to ensure appropriate patient care is always maintained. - Achieving and maintaining accredited and/or extended competencies in area of practice as identified in local pathway documentation. - Supervising, planning, and managing day to day work of allocated staff, reviewing and reallocating tasks when necessary to meet workload demands. Deputise for operational manager and provide leadership where necessary e.g., at weekends/on late nights. To be responsible for the management of junior staff including supervision, appraisal and informal management processes. To be involved in the recruitment and induction of new staff including recruitment chair. To create and develop operating procedures and to ensure that staff arefollowing processes accordingly. - Responsible for the contribution to service improvement, evaluation, and development. Actively identifies areas of improvement. Proactivity contributes to service development and is responsible for service improvement through the application of tested improvement tools and techniques.